明光概况

　　明光市原为嘉山县，汉代始置县，为盱眙、淮陵二县地，属临淮郡。
Mingguang City, originally named as Jiashan County. It has been set as a county at Han dynasty. With Xuyu, Huailing counties, and belongs to Linhuai Prefecture.

　　南朝时，宋侨置睢陵县。北魏改睢陵为济阳，北齐改为池南县，南陈复名睢陵县，北周初改为招义县，后又改为化明县，属钟离郡。
At Southern Song dynasty, Song Qiao set it Zhuiling County. Zhuiling renamed as Jiyang at Northern Wei dynasty, and Chinan County at Northern Qi, Zhuiling County at Southern Chen dynast, Zhaoyi County at the beginning of Northern Zhou dynasty, then, renamed as Huaming County, belonged to Li Prefecture.

　　唐朝时复名招义，属濠州，宋朝改为招信县，元朝并招信县入盱眙，明朝属凤阳府，清朝直隶泗州。
At Tang Dynast, it renamed Zhaoyi, belong to Haozhou Prefecture, then, Zhaoxin County at Song Dynasty. At Ming Dynasty, it merged into Xuyu, belonged to Fengyang at Ming Dynasty, belonged to Sizhou Prefecture at Qing Dynasty.

　　据《泗州志》记："明光山，集主之山也，明太祖生时有光灼天，因赐名。"可知明光得名已有六百余年历史。
According to Sizhou Records, Mingguang mountain is where mountains gathered around, when Ming Tai Zu born, there were lights reaching sky high, so, it named as Mingguang Mountain. So, we can know that there are 600 years for Mingguang.

　　民国二十一年（1932年）十一月，划盱眙南17个保、滁县北6个保、定远东6个保、来安西3个保，合并新置嘉山县，县治三界镇（老三界）。
November, 1932, the government set Jiashan County with 17 Bao (administrative system in old times of China) of south part of Xuyu, 6 Bao of north of Tu County, 6 Bao of east of Dingyuan, 3 Bao of west of Anxi, Jiashan County governed Sanjie Town.

　　1940年，嘉山县抗日民主政府成立，县政府设在自来桥镇，原海峡两岸关系协会会长的汪道涵同志即为嘉山县抗日民主政府首任县长。
1940, the democracy government of anti-Japan of Jiashan County founded, and the head of county sets at Zilaiqiao Town, Wang Daohan, original-chairman of Straits relationship association, as the first magistrate .

　　1994年5月31日，经国务院批准撤县设市。
May 31, 1994, Mingguang County renamed Mingguang City according to the permit of the State Council

　　1997年成为对外开放城市
1997, Mingguang City becomes a open city of China.

　　明光市位于安徽省东北部边缘，居江淮分水岭北侧，地处东经117°至119°，北纬32°至34°之间。与滁州市南谯区接壤；北临淮河，与五河县接壤；东与江苏省盱眙、泗洪等县相邻；西邻定远、凤阳两县。