Ying (Shuozhou)

Yìng Xiàn ; 应县; Ying
	Ying
	Ying
Coordinates	39 ° 34 ' N , 113 ° 11' E Coordinates: 39 ° 34 ' N , 113 ° 11' E
	Location of Ying within Shuozhou
Basic data
Country	People's Republic of China
province	Shanxi
District-free city	Shuozhou
ISO 3166-2	CN-SX
surface	1708 km²
Residents	330,000 (2017)
density	193.2 Ew. / km²
Website	www.yingxian.gov.cn
	Sakyamuni Pagoda of Ying Buddha Palace Temple

Ying ( Chinese 应县 , pinyin Ying Xiàn ) is a Chinese district of the prefecture-level city Shuozhou in the province of Shanxi . It has an area of 1,708 km² and in 2017 had about 330,000 inhabitants. The 2000 population census showed a total population of 279,483 people in 73,861 households, including 145,102 men and 134,381 women. Its main place is the large community Jincheng ( 金城镇 , Jīnchéng Zhèn ).

Ying is located on the Loess Plateau in the north of Shanxi Province and occupies the southern part of the Datong Basin. It has approximately 8,000 acres of forest and 80,000 acres of arable land.

Ying belonged during the Warring States Period to the state Zhao and was built during the Qin Dynasty part of the commandant Yanmen . Ying County was established as early as the Western Han Dynasty , which became Ying (应州, Yingzhou) during the Tang Dynasty . With Li Keyong (military leader and king of Jin State ), Li Cunxu (emperor of the later Tang dynasty ), Xiao Yanyan , one of the most important civil servants and military leaders in Chinese history, and Empress Guo , Ying is intertwined with numerous personalities from the history of China .

Today the Rongcheng – Wuhai and Eren Hot – Guangzhou and Datong – Puzhou Railway pass through the Ying area. The Datong-Taiyuan high-speed line will be under construction in 2019.

Administrative structure

At the community level, Ying consisted of three large communities and nine communities as of the end of 2018 . These are:

Large communities Jincheng (金城镇) Nanhezhong (南河种镇) Xiashe (下社镇)
Communities Zhenziliang (镇子梁乡) Yijing (义井乡) Zangzhai (藏寨乡) Daihuangwei (大黄巍乡) Xingzhai (杏寨乡) Xiamayu (下马峪乡), Nanquan (南泉乡) Dalinhe (大临河乡), Baimashi (白马石乡)

The aforementioned administrative units are composed of 298 villages at village level .

Culture

There are numerous state-protected cultural assets in Ying County, including two monuments of the People's Republic of China and four monuments of Shanxi Province . These include the wooden Sakyamuni Pagoda of the Buddha Palace Temple , the Jingtu Temple , parts of the Wall of Qi State and 104 kilometers of the Great Wall of China from the Ming Dynasty .

Web links

Commons : Kreis Ying - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 应县概况.山西省朔州市应县人民政府, accessed on July 8, 2019 (Chinese).
↑ 浙江省乡、镇、街道人口. State Statistics Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed June 11, 2019 (Chinese).
↑ 应县. State Statistics Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed July 8, 2019 (Chinese).

[yx-gk-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 应县概况.山西省朔州市应县人民政府, accessed on July 8, 2019 (Chinese).

[stats-2-2] 浙江省乡、镇、街道人口. State Statistics Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed June 11, 2019 (Chinese).

[stats-1-3] 应县. State Statistics Office of the People's Republic of China , accessed July 8, 2019 (Chinese).