Shanghang

Shàngháng Xiàn ; 上杭县; Shanghang
	Shanghang
	Shanghang
Coordinates	25 ° 6 ' N , 116 ° 31' E Coordinates: 25 ° 6 ' N , 116 ° 31' E
	Division of the prefecture-level city of Longyan
Basic data
Country	People's Republic of China
province	Fujian
District-free city	Longyan
ISO 3166-2	CN-FJ
surface	2879 km²
Residents	500,000 (2012)
density	173.7 Ew. / km²
Website	www.shanghang.gov.cn
	Shanghang city center, taken in 2012

Shanghang ( Chinese 上杭县 , pinyin Shàngháng Xiàn ) is a Chinese district of the prefecture-level city Longyan in the province of Fujian . It has an area of 2,879 square kilometers and had around 500,000 inhabitants at the end of 2012.

geography

Shanghang is located in the southwest of Fujian Province. It borders Changting and Liancheng in the north, Yongding and Jiaoling in the south, Xinluo in the east, and Wuping in the west. The relief slopes from northeast to southwest; Shanghang is located on the southern foothills of the Wuyi Shan Mountains and is therefore hilly to mountainous. The highest peak in Shanghang is the Meihua Shan with 1778 m . Here is also the 7400 hectare Meihua Shan nature reserve with rare plant and animal species.

The largest river in Shanghang is the Ting Jiang , which flows through the county for a length of 85 kilometers. Its tributaries in Shanghang are Jiuxian He , Huangtan He , Cai Xi , Yuanfeng Xi , Lai Xi , Anxiang Xi, and Xiadu Xi .

Shanghang has a subtropical climate with an average annual temperature of 20.2 ° C. The average temperatures are 11.8 ° C in winter, 20.1 ° C in spring, 27.3 ° C in summer and 21.7 ° C in autumn. The extremes of 2018 were -0.9 ° C on February 7th and 37.3 ° C on July 10th. An average of 1651 millimeters of precipitation falls annually, with summer being the wettest month and winter being the wettest month. Every year, Shanghang has around 1760 hours of sunshine. The greatest threats to agriculture in Shanghang are typhoons, heavy rain, hail and heat.

population

At the end of 2012, Shanghang had a population of around 500,000. The 2000 population census showed a total population of 433,700 people in 111,352 households, of whom 214,956 were men and 218,744 women.

Administrative structure

As of 2018, Shanghang consists of 17 large parishes , three parishes and two nationality parishes . These are:

Large municipalities Linjiang (临江镇), Lincheng (临城镇), Zhongdu (中都镇), Lanxi (蓝溪镇), Rentian (稔田镇), Baisha (白砂镇), Gutian (古田镇), Caixi (才溪镇), Nanyang (南阳镇), Jiaoyang (蛟洋镇), Jiuxian (旧县镇), Huyang (湖洋镇), Xikou (溪口镇), Taiba (太拔镇), Tongxian (通贤镇), Xiadu (下都镇), Chadi (茶地镇)
Communities Panjing (泮境乡) Buyun (步云乡), Shanhu (珊瑚乡)
Nationality communities Lufeng (庐丰畲族乡) and Guanzhuang (官庄官庄) of the She

At the village level, the above-mentioned administrative units are made up of 13 communities and 331 villages , which in turn comprise 3,644 production brigades.

The seat of the Shanghang government is in Linjiang Township .

Economy and Transport

Shanghang's economy thrives on the generation of electrical energy in hydropower plants, cement production, wood processing and mining. There are deposits of gold , limestone , manganese , copper , sulfur , iron , tungsten and rare earths . Almost 16 tons of gold and 8000 tons of copper were mined in the Zijin Shan mine in 2007; it is one of the largest gold producers in China. The mining company Zijin Mining is headquartered in Linjiang Township .

Shanghang is linked to the rest of China by the Longyan-Changting Highway , National Roads 205 and 319, and Provincial Road 206. The Ganzhou-Longyan Railway touches Shanghang in the northeast.

Culture

Shanghang Confucius Temple

The site of the Gutian Conference (Dec. 1929 - Jan. 1930) ( Gutian huiyihuizhi古田会议会址) from the time of the Central Soviet has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-18) since 1961 . In addition, there is a stele with poems by Wang Shouren from the Ming Dynasty and a Confucius Temple from the Qing Dynasty in Shanghang .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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