Anqing

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Ānqìng Shì
安庆 市
Anqing
振 风 塔 左 望 - Look Left from Zhenfeng Pagoda - 2010.07.jpg
View from the Zhenfeng Pagoda along the Yangtze River, in the background the Anqing Bridge, which was completed in 2005
Anqing (China)
Anqing
Anqing
Coordinates 30 ° 30 '  N , 117 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 30 ° 30 '  N , 117 ° 2'  E
Location Anqings in Anhui
Location Anqings in Anhui
Basic data
Country People's Republic of China
region East china
province Anhui
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:

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
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

View from the pagoda in the 1920s over the city, which then had around 40,000 inhabitants.

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

Zhenfeng Pagoda in Anqing
Memorial to a student murdered in a demonstration in June 1921. At the instigation of the governor Ma Lianjia (馬 聯 甲) in charge, it was razed again in early 1924.

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.

Web links

Commons : Anqing  - collection of images, videos and audio files