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Asia/Shanghai |
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Africa/Ndjamena |
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UTC+1 |
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Jiading District is located in the northwestern part of Shanghai, China, and is one of the five major new cities in Shanghai. As a famous historical and cultural city in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiading was founded in the 10th year of Jiading of the Southern Song Dynasty (1218), with a history of more than 800 years, and is famous for "educating Jiading". It covers an area of 463.55 square kilometers and has a resident population of about 1.7 million.
Jiading District is a perfect blend of traditional and modern elements: the Confucius Temple and Zhouqiao Old Street preserve the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, while the F1 Shanghai International Circuit and the Shanghai Automobile Museum demonstrate its status as an "international automobile city". It is the core base of China's automobile industry, with a concentration of vehicle and parts companies such as SAIC and Azera. Meanwhile, the Jiading Campus of Shanghai University of Science and Technology and Tongji University form a science and innovation cluster.
Railway line 11 and Hujia Expressway form a convenient transportation network, and it is about 30 minutes' drive from Hongqiao Transportation Hub. The area has ecological spaces such as Yuanxiang Lake and Jiabei Country Park, and has been continuously awarded as a national civilized urban area, forming a new modern city model of "science and technology + ecology + humanity".
Fada is the capital of the Ennedi region in the eastern part of the African country of Chad, located on the Ennedi Plateau on the southeastern edge of the Sahara Desert. The city is remote, about 800 kilometers from the capital N'Djamena, and is an important regional administrative and commercial center in eastern Chad.
Fada is situated in the arid Sahel region, surrounded by desert and semi-desert landscapes, with unique sandstone landscapes and oasis landscapes. It has a tropical desert climate, with an average annual temperature of about 28°C. Annual precipitation is very low, and the population is dependent on limited groundwater resources.
Fada is a traditional settlement of nomadic pastoralists such as the Toubou, preserving ancient desert cultural traditions. The economy is based on animal husbandry (camels, goats) and date palm cultivation, with ecotourism developing in recent years as a result of the Ennedi Plateau being listed as a World Natural Heritage Site. The city's infrastructure is relatively basic, with traditional marketplaces and simple roads.
As the central hub of the Ennedi region, Fada is connected to the towns of eastern Chad by desert highways and has a small airport. Its strategic location near Chad's borders with Sudan and Libya is important for regional security and cross-border trade.