Jianye, a district located in southwest of the city, is one of six urban districts in Nanjing. In order to accelerate the modernization of Nanjing and to obtain new developing space, in late 2001, the municipal Party committee and the municipal government of Nanjing made a strategic decision to construct a new city in Hexi. In October and November of the following year, the municipal authorities initiated a large-scale alteration of administrative divisions, which involved the inclusion of main part of Hexi new city into Jianye district and the exclusion of XinJiekou from Jianye district. For the time being, the district extends to the Outer Qinhuai River in the east, the Yangtze River in the west, the Qinhuai New River in the south, HanZhongmen Avenue in the north...