Danzhou
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About Danzhou
Danzhou is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a prefecture-level city in February 2015.
What is now Danzhou was settled by Cantonese peasants firstly named Danzhou (儋州) in the 12th century and only renamed to Danxian in 1912 after hundreds of years, but later re-obtained its name Danzhou after the Communist takeover in the 1950s.
During World War II, Danzhou was among the top most devastated counties in Hainan as the Japanese had massacred more than 30,000 Cantonese people in Danzhou, destroying over than 10,000 houses and 300 Danzhou villages.
Party Secretary: Zou Guang (邹广), assumed office May 2023
Congress Standing Committee Chairman: Vacant since May 30, 2025
Mayor: Chen Yang (陈阳), assumed office July 28, 2023
People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman: Jiang Mingqing (蒋明清), assumed office January 8, 2023.
=== Danzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau ===
The Danzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau (儋州市公安局) is...
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