张江 (Zhāngjiāng): Zhangjiang (area in Pudong, Shanghai, home to Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park)

Meanings

1 Zhangjiang (area in Pudong, Shanghai, home to Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park)

Characters

张

zhāng

surname Zhang; to stretch

江

jiāng

river

Examples

他在张江高科技园区工作。

Tā zài Zhāngjiāng gāokējì yuánqū gōngzuò.

He works in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.

坐地铁2号线可以直接到张江。

Zuò dìtiě 2 hào xiàn kěyǐ zhíjiē dào Zhāngjiāng.

You can take Metro Line 2 directly to Zhangjiang.

Tips

culture

张江高科技园区, opened in 1992 in Pudong, Shanghai, is often called 'China's Silicon Valley' — a hub for integrated circuits, biotech and software. In Chinese tech news 张江 is used as a metonym for China's chip industry, the way 'Silicon Valley' is used in English.

usage

Can also be a given name (张 surname + 江 'river'), but in contemporary news contexts it is overwhelmingly the Shanghai neighborhood.