Anqing
Ānqìng Shì 安庆 市 Anqing |
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View from the Zhenfeng Pagoda along the Yangtze River, in the background the Anqing Bridge, which was completed in 2005 |
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Coordinates | 30 ° 30 ' N , 117 ° 2' E | |
Location Anqings in Anhui |
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Basic data | ||
Country | People's Republic of China | |
region | East china | |
province | Anhui | |
ISO 3166-2 | CN-AH | |
status | district-free city | |
structure | three boroughs, one urban district, six districts | |
surface | 15,398 km² | |
Residents | 4,612,000 (2016) | |
density | 299.5 Ew. / km² | |
Post Code | 246000 | |
Telephone code | +86 (0) 556 | |
Time zone | UTC + 8 | |
politics | ||
mayor | Xiao Chaoying (肖超英) |
Anqing ( Chinese 安庆 市 , Pinyin Ānqìng Shì ) is a district-free city in east central China and in the south of the Chinese province of Anhui . The city has an area of 15,398 km² and around 4.61 million inhabitants (2016). 570,538 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Anqing (2010 census).
Administrative structure
Anqing is made up of three districts, two independent cities and five districts:
- District Yingjiang (迎江区);
- Daguan District (大观 区);
- Yixiu District (宜 秀 区);
- Circle Huaining (怀宁 县);
- Taihu County (太湖 县);
- Circuit Susong (宿松县);
- Circuit Wangjiang (望江县);
- Yuexi District (岳西 县);
- Qianshan City (潜山 市);
- Tongcheng City (桐城市).
Ethnic breakdown of the total population of Anqing (2000)
The 2000 census counted 5,180,000 inhabitants in Anqing.
Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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Han | 5,163,035 | 99.67% |
Hui | 12,976 | 0.25% |
Mongols | 1,529 | 0.03% |
Manju | 498 | 0.01% |
Yi | 280 | 0.01% |
Miao | 268 | 0.01% |
Others | 1,414 | 0.03% |
geography
Anqing is on the north bank of the Yangtze River ; at this point the river narrows and is therefore easy to cross.
history
The city was founded in the 2nd century BC. Chr. In the Han Dynasty established. In the 12th century it became the seat of a military prefecture and was named Anqing. In the Taiping uprising against the Qing dynasty in the 19th century, Anqing was one of the most important bases of the rebels after the city was captured by the rebel leader Hong Xiuquan (Hung Hsiu-Ch'üan) in 1853 . In 1861 the Chinese army retook the city. Towards the end of the 19th century, Anqing was a center of the arms industry.
Culture
The Zhenfeng Pagoda (振 风 塔, Zhènfēng tǎ) and the former residence of Zhao Puchu (世 太史 第, Shìtàishǐdì) are on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China .
economy
Anqing is the central hub for tea , which is grown in the surrounding mountains. There is also an oil refinery and other petrochemical industries.
Anqing is a sister city of Calabasas in California , USA .
literature
- John Shryock: Temples of Anking and their cults. A study of modern Chinese religion. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1931.