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Hui'an County
() is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian coast, between Quanzhou and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as of late 2003, with a non-agricultural population of 289,396 people. The dialect is Hui'an dialect, related to Hokkien. Administrative divisions The county is divided into fifteen towns and one ethnic township. The only township in the county is Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township. ''Towns'': * (), the county seat (the location marked on most maps as "Hui'an") * Luòyáng (), * Chongwu (), * Dongyuan (), * Zhangban (), * Dongling (), * Wangchuan (), * Tuzhai (), * Luóyáng (), * Huangtang (), * Shanxia (), * Jingfeng (), * Dongqiao (), * Zishan (), * Xiaozuo () Economy Hui'an people have long been engaged in quarrying local granite and using it for construction purposes. Traditional houses and other structures in the region are constru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counties Of The People's Republic Of China
Counties ( zh, t=縣, s=县, hp=Xiàn), formally county-level divisions, are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in Provinces and Autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and City districts. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. The term ''xian'' is sometimes translated as "district" or "prefecture" when put in the context of Chinese history. History ''Xian'' have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin Dynasty. The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han Dynasty, the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dynas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huian - Chongwu Walled City - Stone House - P1230340
() is a County (People's Republic of China), county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, People's Republic of China. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian coast, between Quanzhou Bay, Quanzhou and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as of late 2003, with a non-agricultural population of 289,396 people. The dialect is Hui'an dialect, related to Hokkien. Administrative divisions The county is divided into fifteen town (China), towns and one ethnic township. The only township in the county is Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township. ''Towns'': * (), the county seat (the location marked on most maps as "Hui'an") *Luòyáng, Hui'an County, Luòyáng (), *Chongwu (), *Dongyuan, Hui'an County, Dongyuan (), *Zhangban (), *Dongling, Hui'an County, Dongling (), *Wangchuan (), *Tuzhai (), *Luóyáng, Hui'an County, Luóyáng (), *Huangtang, Hui'an County, Huangtang (), *Shanxia (town), Shanxia (), *Jingfeng (), *Dongqiao, Hui'an C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanxia (town)
Shanxia (named after the Shanxi Province) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Shanxi Province that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian, ~99-71 Ma) in what is now the Huiquanpu Formation. ''Shanxia'' may possibly represent a junior synonym of ''Tianzhenosaurus'', an ankylosaurine also known from the Huiquanpu Formation of China. Discovery and naming In 1993, Messrs. Lu and Li of the Hebei Geological Survey discovered a partial ankylosaurid skeleton at a locality in the Shanxi Province and notified staff of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, who collected the material later that year. The holotype specimen, IVPP V11276, consists of a braincase, occiput, skull roof, ?quadratojugal, axis vertebra, cervical vertebrae, dorsal vertebrae, caudal vertebrae, humerus, fragment of ?ilium, femora and an osteoderm. The holotype skull is partially reconstructed with plaster to stabilise parts of the skull roof and to attach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
