What is "zaozhuang"

Zaozhuang is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The second smallest prefecture-level city in the province, only bigger than Laiwu,it borders Jining to the west and north, Linyi to the east, and the province of Jiangsu to the south.

Its population is 3,729,140 at the 2010 census whom 899,753 in the built-up area made of Shizhong and Yicheng districts.