Where does Su Bei refer to?

Traditionally Su Bei refers to the five prefecture-level cities of Yangzhou, Taizhou, Yancheng, Huai'an, and Nantong between Jianghuai and Huaihua in Jiangsu Province, rather than the three middle-earth official languages and the Haisi dialect of Xuzhou, Suqian, and Lianyungang. The "northern" regions of Xuzhou, Suqian and Lianyungang are not the three "northern" regions that speak Middle Kingdom and Haisi dialects.

Broadly speaking, the northern part of Jiangsu Province refers to all areas 100km north of the Yangtze River, including Taizhou and Yangzhou; narrowly speaking, the northern part of Jiangsu today (as officially defined by the government) includes the five provincial municipalities of Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Huai'an, Yancheng, and Suqian in Jiangsu Province.

Water Transportation

The transportation in the northern part of Jiangsu has always been based on water transportation, with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as the artery of transportation.

Lianyungang Port successfully stepped into the ranks of 100 million tons of large ports, becoming the province following the Nanjing Port, Suzhou Port, Nantong Port, the fourth 100 million tons of large ports, of which the container throughput from 100,000 TEUs to 3 million TEUs, jumped to the national coastal top ten container ports and the world's top 100 container ports (ranked 84th in the world).

Lianyungang Port and Yancheng Dafeng Port were included in the first batch of ports with direct shipping across the Taiwan Strait. The improvement and expansion project of the Suzhou-North section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is in full progress, and the Lianyungang Harbor dredging channel project and the Yancheng ship lock project have begun successfully.

Xuzhou is a national inland waterway transportation hub city, the total mileage of inland waterways reached 1,057.84 kilometers Xuzhou Port is one of the country's 28 inland waterway ports, the throughput of China's inland waterway ports ranked in the top ten. The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, known as the "Golden Waterway", crosses the city and covers 181.16 kilometers in Xuzhou, connecting Weishan Lake in the north and Luoma Lake in the south, and is planned to be a secondary waterway.

In order to give full play to the role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal as the main waterway, Xuzhou has implemented the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Xuzhou section of the "three to two", Huxi Channel Bayi Bridge reconstruction, urban section of the comprehensive improvement of the key projects, Linjiaba below the second level of waterway standards, the main channel of the Canal capacity has improved significantly to be completed after the completion of the renovation of Huxi Channel, will realize the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and will realize the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. After the completion of the Huxi waterway improvement project, will realize the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Xuzhou section of the second level of the waterway of the whole line through.