Zichuan, Zibo

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Zichuan District 淄川区
District
Location in Zibo
Zichuan Location in Shandong
Coordinates: 36°38′37″N 117°58′01″E / 36.64361°N 117.96694°E / 36.64361; 117.96694
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shandong
Prefecture-level city	Zibo
Area
• Total	960 km2 (370 sq mi)
Population  (2017)
• Total	640,700
• Density	670/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	255100
Area code	+86 0533
Website	www.zichuan.gov.cn

The Zichuan District (Chinese: 淄川区; pinyin: Zīchuān Qū) is one of eight divisions within the city of Zibo in the Chinese province of Shandong. As the largest district of Zibo, it is composed of an urban area of over 23 square kilometers,^[1] and 17 towns that administer vast rural areas, almost 1,000 square kilometers in total. Zichuan is an important industrial center of Shandong.

Although administratively not a city, downtown Zichuan is known to locals as the "Zichuan City". The urban area has an estimated population of 20,000 while the total population of Zichuan District is over 670,000 in 2013. Southern Zichuan extends into the Shandong Hills, while the northern part of the district, located on plains, is more densely populated. Zichuan is the hometown of Chinese writer Pu Songling, who wrote his most famous work Liaozhai Zhiyi here.