Hefei

Héféi Shì 合肥市 Hefei
Hefei
Coordinates	31 ° 51 ′  N , 117 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 51 ′  N , 117 ° 16 ′  E
Location Yeast ice cream (yellow) in the Chinese province of Anhui
Basic data
Country	People's Republic of China
region	East china
province	Anhui
status	district-free city
structure	four city districts, four districts and one urban district
height	37 m
surface	7056 km²
Residents	7,869,000 (2016)
density	1,115.2  Ew. / km²
Post Code	230000
Telephone code	+86 (0) 551
Time zone	UTC + 8
License Plate	皖 A
Website	www.hefei.gov.cn
politics
mayor	Ling Yun 凌云

Hefei ( Chinese  合肥市 , Pinyin Héféi Shì , W.-G. Ho-fei Shih ) had about 7.87 million inhabitants at the end of 2016 and is the capital of the Chinese province of Anhui . 3,098,727 people live in the actual urban settlement area of ​​Hefei (2010 census).

The administrative area of ​​the district-free city has an area of ​​7,056 km².

Administrative structure

At the district level, Hefei is made up of four urban districts, four districts and one urban district. These are:

• Luyang District (庐阳 区), 140 km², 400,000 inhabitants;
• District Yaohai (瑶海区), 189 square kilometers, 400,000 inhabitants;
• Shushan District (蜀山区), 129 km², 370,000 inhabitants;
• Baohe district (包 河 区), 197 km², 460,000 inhabitants;
• District Changfeng (长丰县), km² 1925, 780,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Shuihu (水湖镇);
• Feidong County (肥东县), 2,145 km², 1.07 million inhabitants, capital: Dianbu Municipality (店 埠镇);
• Feixi district (肥西县), 2,186 km², 960,000 inhabitants, capital: Shangpai municipality (上 派 镇);
• Lujiang County (庐江 县), 2,352 km², 1.2 million inhabitants, main town: Lucheng Municipality (庐 城镇).
• Chaohu county-level city (巢湖 市), 2,063 km², 4.5 million inhabitants

Chaohu was added on 22 August 2011 and was previously the district Juchao the former prefecture-level city of Chaohu.

Ethnic breakdown of the population yeast ice cream (2000)

In the 2000 census, 4,467,384 inhabitants were counted in Hefei (population density: 646.42 inhabitants / km²). The majority of the residents are Han .

Name of the people	Residents	proportion of
Han	4,428,414	99.13%
Hui	30,841	0.69%
Manju	2,970	0.07%
Mongols	1,365	0.03%
Zhuang	552	0.01%
Yi	496	0.01%
Miao	477	0.01%
Tujia	472	0.01%
Bouyei	335	0.01%
Uighurs	305	0.01%
Korean	285	0.01%
Tibetans	284	0.01%
Others	588	0.01%

history

During the Ming and Qing dynasties , Hefei was named Luzhou (庐州). Several battles are named after the city, such as the 2nd Battle of Hefei around 217.

Economy and Transport

Today Hefei is a transport hub and an industrial city. The automotive, textile, steel and chemical industries are represented here. On May 30, 2013, the new Hefei-Xinqiao International Airport opened , replacing the old Hefei-Luogang Airport .

In December 2016, the first line of the Hefei subway (Line 1) went into operation. In December 2017 the second line of the subway (Line 2) went into operation. A total of eight subway networks is planned. A total length of about 300 km is obtained.

education

The city is home to almost a dozen universities and comparable secondary schools, making it one of the four centers of higher education sponsored by the Chinese government. The three most famous universities of Hefei, the Chinese University of Science and Technology (中国 科技 大学), and the Hefei Technical University (合肥 工业 大学) and Anhui University (安徽 大学), belong to the nationwide elite and participate in the government's 211 project, which aims to create around 100 world-class universities with the help of special funding.

The Hefei University of Applied Sciences (合肥 学院) cooperates with the State of Lower Saxony and has a total of 13 partner universities in Germany.

In addition, the secondary school No. 1 in Hefei in 2004 entered into a school partnership with the Saxon school Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium in Pirna .

Town twinning

• Kurume , Japan, since 1980
• Freetown , Sierra Leone, since 1984
• Bujumbura , Burundi, since 1986
• Columbus , United States, since 1988
• Aalborg , Denmark, since 1989
• Lleida , Spain, since 1998
• Wonju , South Korea, since 2002
• Darebin City , Australia, since 2003
• Belfast , United Kingdom, since 2003
• Osnabrück , Germany, since 2006

gallery

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  Pedestrian zone in Hefei

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  Market street in Hefei

Climate table

Hefei
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     30th   7th -1     51   8th 1     68   14th 5     94   20th 12     97   26th 17th     120   29 21st     171   32 25th     111   32 24     85   27 19th     66   22nd 13     57   16 7th     25th   9 1 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: China Meteorological Administration

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Hefei Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 6.8 8.3 13.7 20.3 25.6 29.1 32.1 32.3 27.1 22.0 15.6 9.4 O 20.3 Min. Temperature (° C) −0.9 0.6 5.4 11.6 16.9 21.2 24.7 24.3 19.1 13.1 6.8 0.9 O 12 Precipitation ( mm ) 30th 51 68 94 97 120 171 111 85 66 57 25th Σ 975 Rainy days ( d ) 8th 9 11 12 11 10 13 10 10 9 8th 6th Σ 117 Source: China Meteorological Administration

Web links

Commons : Hefei  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Government side of Hefei (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anhui (China): Prefecture Level, Cities & Counties - Population Statistics, Maps, Graphics, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Louisa Lim: The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City. September 21, 2011, accessed February 2, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Metro Report international from December 26, 2016: Hefei opens metro Line 1 (English); accessed on December 27, 2016