page_title: Tancheng, Pingtan County
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tancheng, Pingtan County / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Taiwan StraitBân-lâm-gú: Tâi-uân Hái-kiap. 臺灣海峽中文（中国大陆）‎: 台湾海峡地图中文（简体）‎: 台湾海峡地图中文（繁體）‎: 臺灣海峽地圖中文（香港）‎: 臺灣海峽地圖中文（繁體）‎: 臺灣海峽地圖
context_page_description: Tancheng is the seat of Pingtan County, in Fuzhou, Fujian, China seating its executive, legislature, judiciary, CPC and PSB branches. It is located on Haitan Island.
context_section_description: In 1961, Tancheng Commune (潭城公社) was established.
  In 1980, Chengguan Town (城关镇) was established, which was renamed Tancheng Town in 1982.
  On March 29, 2013, a woman surnamed Wen in Tancheng lost 305,000 RMB to someone pretending to be her brother on QQ.
  On April 15, 2013, Chen Shixiong was appointed town-level Communist Party of China (CPC) secretary of Tancheng at the sixth plenary session of the 12th CPC Pingtan Committee.
  On August 8-9, 2015, Typhoon Soudelor brought winds measured at 36.3 meters per second in Tancheng, the highest in downtown Pingtan since 1971.
  On September 27-28, 2016, Typhoon Megi brought torrential rains across Pingtan, including Tancheng.
caption: Map including Tancheng in the Taiwan Strait
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