Jiuquan
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| Greater Region: | Northwest China |
| Province : | Gansu |
| Status: | district-free city |
| Subdivision: | 1 city district, 2 independent cities,
2 districts, 2 autonomous districts |
| Residents : | 1,119,400 (end of 2016) |
| Area : | 179,744 km² |
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Jiuquan ( Chinese 酒泉 市 , Pinyin Jiǔquán Shì ) is a district-free city in the People's Republic of China .
Jiuquan was founded on June 18, 2002 on the area of the Jiuquan Government District, which was dissolved on the same day, and the Jiuquan City District was dissolved at the same time. It was replaced by the Suzhou District. Jiuquan extends over the entire western tip of the Chinese province of Gansu , with the exception of the administrative area of the city of Jiayuguan . It has an area of 179,744 km². The city is about 1,500 m above sea level. Their territory borders on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the west .
The Jiuquan Cosmodrome , built in 1956, was named after the city of Jiuquan . The rocket launch site is located approximately 200 km northeast of the city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region . The first manned Chinese space flight was launched from here in October 2003 .
About 150 km north-west of the city is the Gansu wind farm (also Jiuquan Wind Power Base ), one of the largest wind farms in the world; In 2012, more than 3,500 wind turbines with 6 GW output were already installed, and in 2020 the final expansion stage will be 20 GW.
The city owes its name to a legend: after the victory of the general Huo Qubing over the Xiongnu , the emperor Wudi is said to have thanked him with wine. Huo is said to have poured the wine into a spring in order to let his warriors share in it. The city of Jiuquan ("Wine Spring") got its name from this spring, from which wine instead of water gushed from now on. The spring is now a national tourist attraction of the city.
Administrative structure
The administrative area of the city of Jiuquan consists of a municipality, two independent cities, two counties and two autonomous counties.
- Suzhou District (肃州 区), 3,349 km²,
- City of Yumen (玉门市), 13,500 km²,
- Dunhuang City (敦煌 市), 26,960 km²,
- Jinta County (金塔 县), capital: Jinta Municipality (金塔 镇), 14,663 km²,
- Guazhou County (瓜州 县), capital: Yuanquan Township (渊 泉镇), 23,150 km²,
- Subei Autonomous District of the Mongols (肃北 蒙古族 自治县), capital: Dangchengwan Municipality (党 城 湾镇), 66,748 km²,
- Aksay Autonomous District of the Kazakhs (阿克塞 哈萨克族 自治县), capital: Hongliuwan Municipality (红 柳湾镇), 31,374 km².
Ethnic breakdown of the total population of Jiuquan (2000)
In the 2000 census, Jiuquan had a total population of 980,492 people (population density 5.45 inhabitants / km²).
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
|---|---|---|
| Han | 952.672 | 97.16% |
| Hui | 7,248 | 0.74% |
| Dongxiang | 5,623 | 0.57% |
| Mongols | 4,958 | 0.51% |
| Kazakhs | 2,788 | 0.28% |
| Yugur | 2,435 | 0.25% |
| Tibetans | 2,307 | 0.24% |
| Do | 791 | 0.08% |
| Manchu | 686 | 0.07% |
| Tujia | 230 | 0.02% |
| Uighurs | 190 | 0.02% |
| Miao | 125 | 0.01% |
| Others | 439 | 0.05% |
Web links
- Jiuquan in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Coordinates: 39 ° 45 ' N , 98 ° 31' E