Pu Songling
Although administratively not a city, downtown Zichuan is known to locals as the "Zichuan City". The urban area has an estimated population of 20,000 while the total population of Zichuan District is over 670,000 in 2013. Southern Zichuan extends into the Shandong Hills, while the northern part of the district, located on plains, is more densely populated. Zichuan is the hometown of Chinese writer Pu Songling, who wrote his most famous work "Liaozhai Zhiyi" here.