Tongcheng, Anhui

Tongcheng is a county-level city and former county in the southwest of Anhui province and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Anqing. Its population is 744,000 and its area is 1571 km2. Tongcheng is noted for the Tongcheng School.

Administrative divisions
Tongcheng City has jurisdiction over 3 subdistricts, 12 towns and 2 others.
 * Subdistricts
 * Longteng Subdistrict (龙腾街道)
 * Wenchang Subdistrict (文昌街道)
 * Longmin Subdistrict (龙眠街道)


 * Towns
 * Others
 * Tongcheng Economic Development Zone (桐城经济开发区)
 * Tongcheng Shuangxin Economic Development Zone (桐城双新经济开发区)

Notable people

 * Zhang Tingyu, advisor to three Qing Dynasty emperors
 * Chu Bo, the former governor of Hunan Province, and currently party chief in Inner Mongolia, was born in Tongcheng.
 * Fang Bao, author
 * Fang Lanfen, author
 * Fang Quan, author, Qing prefect
 * Fang Chih, Chinese diplomat
 * Gui Congyou, diplomat, appointed China's ambassador to Sweden in 2017
 * Wang Wenbin, diplomat, one of the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Zuo Guangdou, late Ming Dynasty censorate official