Lingyuan
Coordinates: 41 ° 15 ' N , 119 ° 24' E
The city of Lingyuan ( Chinese 凌源 市 , Pinyin Língyuán Shì ) is a county-level city in the prefecture -level city of Chaoyang in the west of Liaoning Province in the People's Republic of China . It has an area of 3,297 km² and has a population of 650,000.
The Niuheliang site ( Niuheliang yizhi牛 河 梁 遗址) - a Neolithic site of the Hongshan culture - has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-195) since 1988 .