Tianzhu

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Location of Tianzhu County (pink) in the prefecture-level city of Wuwei (yellow)
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ཐེན་ ཀྲུའ ུ་ བོད་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ ཁུལ
Wylie transliteration :
then kru'u bod rigs rang skyong khul
Pronunciation in IPA :
[ tʰẽʈʂuː ]
Official transcription of the PRCh :
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THDL transcription :
Thenkru
Other spellings:
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Chinese name
Traditional :
天 祝 藏族 自治縣
Simplified :
天 祝 藏族 自治县
Pinyin :
Tiānzhù Zàngzú zìzhìxiàn

The Tibetan Tianzhu Autonomous County ( 天 祝 藏族 自治县 , Tiānzhù Zàngzú zìzhìxiàn ) belongs to the administrative area of ​​the prefecture-level city of Wuwei in the Chinese province of Gansu .

geography

The Tianzhu Autonomous County has an area of ​​7,147 km² with a north-south extension of 158 km and a west-east extension of 143 km. In 2013 it had about 210,000 inhabitants. Its administrative seat (“capital”) is the large community of Huazangsi, which is 144 km northwest of the provincial capital Lanzhou and 132 km southeast of the urban area of ​​Wuwei. Tianzhu is bordered by Yongdeng to the south, Jingtai to the east, Liangzhou and Gulang to the north, Sunan to the northwest, and Menyuan , Huzhu, and Ledu to the west , the last three belonging to Qinghai Province .

Tianzhu lies at an altitude of 2040 m to 4874 m above sea level. In the west, the high mountains relief is characterized by steep slopes, in the south-east direction it merges into more level formations. In the region around Tianzhu, the Tibetan plateau, the loess plain and the Mongolian plateau meet. The mountains at over 4000 meters above sea level include the Maya Xueshan (马 牙 雪山), the Leigong Shan (雷公 山), the Niutou Shan (牛头山), the Waibalang Shan (歪 巴郎山) and the Daigan Shan (代 乾 山). The Daigan Shan, Wushao Ling (乌鞘岭) and Maomao Shan (毛毛 山) form the watershed between the catchment area of the Huang He and the Shiyang He . The Datong He , Jinqiangchuan He, and Shimen He rivers flow through the Tianzhu area , all of which run south of the watershed and are part of the Huang He river system, and the Maozang He , Haxi He , Nancha He , Xiangshui He, and Xidatan He to the north run along the watershed and belong to the Shiyang He river system.

Tianzhu has a high mountain climate with average annual temperatures between −8 and 42 ° C. The mean annual rainfall is between 265 and 632 millimeters. The duration of sunshine is between 2500 and 2700 hours a year, but there are only 90 to 145 frost-free days per year.

Attractions for visitors include the Three Gorges of Tianzhu, Shimengou Scenic Area , Setang Temple , Maya Xueshan Mountain , Luojiawan Neolithic site , sections of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall , the ruins of Songshan Old Town, Tiantang Temple or the Great Mosque.

Administrative structure

Tianzhu consists of ten large parishes and nine parishes:

Ethnic breakdown of the population Tianzhus (2000)

The 2000 census counted 221,347 inhabitants in Tianzhu (population density 30.97 inhabitants / km²).

Name of the people Residents proportion of
Han 139.190 62.88%
Tibetans 66,125 29.87%
Do 12,633 5.71%
Hui 1,986 0.9%
Mongols 961 0.43%
Manchu 213 0.1%
Dongxiang 90 0.04%
Uighurs 40 0.02%
Miao 23 0.01%
Others 86 0.04%

economy

Due to the climatic conditions, keeping yaks still plays a major role in Tianzhu . White yaks have been bred in this area for a long time as the white wool and pelts were paid more than the usual brown yak wool. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the breeding of the white Tainzhu yak has also been subsidized by the state. A coordination group has existed since 1991, which has been developing special breeding plans for the breeding of the White Tianzhu Yak in order to increase the still low level of performance. Bulls usually have a height at the withers of 120 centimeters and are therefore significantly smaller than wild yaks. (Document is missing)

The Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway and the 312 National Road (China) ( Shanghai - Xinjiang ) pass through the Tianzhu area.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 天 祝 藏族 自治县 概况 地图.行政 区划 网, June 17, 2016, accessed on August 9, 2018 (Chinese).

Coordinates: 37 ° 9 '  N , 102 ° 47'  E