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Tongzhou District lies about 20 km southeast of Beijing, at the northern end of the Grand Canal, and covers about 900 sq km. Farmland occupies about half the total land area. The District is well placed geographically to take advantage of the rapidly developing industrial and service sector economic activity and is now well served by transport infrastructure linking it to the capital and to the hinterland in Herbei. Tongzhou has become one of the satellite towns of Beijing and has benefitted from being identified as a special development zone.
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Wang, L., Lewin, K. (2016). Compulsory Education in a Rich District Tongzhou in Beijing. In: Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2120-6_2
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