Yonglongsha,a shoal in the channel of the Yangtze north of Chongming Island,reappeared most recently in 1937.[2] By 1968,workers from Jiangsu had stabilized the land enough that the conflicting claims of the counties of Haimen and Qidong were mediated by their prefecture of Nantong,which divided the island between them. Qidong's area was organized as a farmstead. Continuing reclamation projects and natural deposition of sediment joined it to Chongming Island in 1972. Another area of Qilong derives from its later absorption of Xinglongsha (Chinese:兴隆沙;pinyin:Xīnglóngshā),another shoal.[3]
Prior to Yonglongsha's absorption by Chongming,it offered ferry service to Haimen's Lingdian Harbor (灵甸港;Língdiāngǎng) and Qidong's Sanhe Harbor (三和港;Sānhégǎng).[2] Qilong was elevated to a township in 1992 and is now connected to Chongming's road network but this also was only connected to Jiangsu by ferry service prior to the 2011 opening of the Chongqi Bridge between Chenjia and Qidong. In 2008,its urban plan included 6.66 hectares (16.5 acres) for the construction of five agricultural parks:a rare flower park,a ginkgo park,a pear orchard,an orangery,and a nursery forest.[citation needed]
The area achieved minor notability in 2014 when satellite imagery revealed that a local farm had shaped one of its fields into a taijitu (yin-yang symbol).[4]
Economy
As with many areas of Chongming Island,Qilong farms hairy crab. In addition,they grow edamame for export to Japan and South Korea and malting barley for domestic production. From 2003,Qilong has seen dairy farms established and expanded for Shanghai-area milk companies.[citation needed] The Shanghai-based Yaoji Playing Card Company also has plans to construct a 1km2 (0.39sqmi) Thai-themed amusement park in the territory.[5]
1 2 Office of Shanghai Chronicles. 岛、沙 (in Chinese (China)). Shanghai Municipal Government. Archived from the original on January 6, 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
↑ 农业新闻 (in Chinese (China)), Qidong Agricultural Information Network, 24 May 2004, archived from the original on 14 April 2015, retrieved 8 April 2015
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