Shaoguan
Shaoguan ( Chinese 韶关 市 , Pinyin Sháoguān Shì ) is a district-free city in the north of the Chinese province of Guangdong .
The administrative area of Shaoguan has an area of 18,380 km² and about 2.96 million inhabitants (end of 2016).
Administrative structure
At the county level, Shaoguan consists of three urban districts, two independent cities, four counties and one autonomous county. These are:
- (1) Zhenjiang City District (浈江区), 523 km², 360,000 inhabitants, center, seat of the city government;
- (2) District Wujiang (武江区), 682 square kilometers, 230,000;
- (3) Qujiang District (曲江 区), 1,651 km², 300,000 inhabitants;
- (4) City of Lechang (乐昌 市), 2,391 km², 520,000 inhabitants;
- (5) Nanxiong City (南雄 市), 2,361 km², 460,000 inhabitants;
- (6) Shixing District (始兴 县), 2,174 km², 240,000 inhabitants, main town: Taiping municipality (太平 镇);
- (7) Renhua district (仁化 县), 2,223 km², 220,000 inhabitants, capital: Renhua municipality (仁化 镇);
- (8) Circle Wengyuan (翁源县), 2,234 square kilometers, 380,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Longxian (龙仙镇);
- (9) Xinfeng County (新 丰县), 2,016 km², 240,000 inhabitants, capital: Fengcheng Street District (丰城 街道);
- (10) Ruyuan Autonomous County of the Yao (乳源 瑶族 自治县), 2,125 km², 200,000 inhabitants, main town: Rucheng municipality (乳 城镇).
Economy, tourism
In recent years Shaoguan has developed from a purely industrial city to a tourist city. In January 2002, Shaoguan was named one of the excellent tourist cities in the country by the State Office of the People's Republic of China.
In February 2018, 8 workers were killed in a steel mill in the city because of a gas leak.
Web links
Commons : Shaoguan - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eight dead from gas leak in Chinese steelworks orf.at, February 5, 2018, accessed February 5, 2018.
Coordinates: 24 ° 48 ' N , 113 ° 35' E