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Qingcheng District
Qingcheng () is a district of Qingyuan, Guangdong province, China. Qingcheng District is located in the middle of Guangdong province, lying beside the Bei Revier. Lying in the south of the Qingxin District, the north of Huadu District in Guangzhou, the west of the Fogang Country, the east of the Sanshui District in Foshan City, Qingcheng District covers an area of with a population of 620,000. The District government is located in the Fengcheng Subdistrict. There are 3 towns, 4 Subdistricts and a forest farm. Climate Qingcheng District has a subtropical climate, with an average annual temperature of , of rainfall. History Qingcheng District, the predecessor of Qingyuan County, is a county with a long history of 2229 years, formed in the Qin Dynasty (221 BC). Qingyuan County is nestled in the land south of the five ridges. The diligent, wise and hospitable Qingyuan County people have been hardworking since ancient times, creating the brilliant culture which has become part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia ( Govi-Altai Province), Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south and Shaanxi to the east. The Yellow River passes through the southern part of the province. Part of Gansu's territory is located in the Gobi Desert. The Qilian mountains are located in the south of the Province. Gansu has a population of 26 million, ranking 22nd in China. Its population is mostly Han, along with Hui, Dongxiang and Tibetan minorities. The most common language is Mandarin. Gansu is among the poorest administrative divisions in China, ranking 31st, last place, in GDP per capita as of 2019. The State of Qin originated in what is now southeastern Gansu and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hai Rui
Hai Rui (海瑞; ''Hǎi Ruì'' ; 23 January 1514 – 13 November 1587), courtesy name Ruxian (汝贤), art name Gangfeng (刚峰), was a Chinese scholar-official of the Ming dynasty, remembered as a model of honesty and integrity in office. A play based on his career, ''Hai Rui Dismissed from Office'', gained political significance in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution. Biography Hai Rui, was born in Qiongshan, Guangdong (modern-day Hainan) on January 23, 1513. His father died when he was three, and he was raised by his mother. His great-great-grandfather was a native of Guangzhou named Hai Da-er (海答兒, Haidar, an Arabic name), and his mother was from a Muslim (Hui) family that originated from the Indian subcontinent. Hai Rui himself however was noted primarily as a Neo-Confucian and never discussed Islam in his Confucian works. Hai took the Imperial examination but was unsuccessful, and his official career only began in 1553, when he was 39, with a humble positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingcheng Railway Station (Guangdong)
Qingcheng railway station () is a railway station located in Qingcheng District, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. It opened with the Guangzhou–Qingyuan intercity railway Guangzhou–Qingyuan intercity railway, also known as the Guangqing intercity railway, is a regional rail within Guangdong province, China. It will connect the provincial capital Guangzhou with Qingyuan. It is a part of the Pearl River Delta Metr ... on 30 November 2020. References Railway stations in Guangdong Railway stations in China opened in 2020 {{Guangdong-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingyuan Railway Station
Qingyuan railway station () is a railway station located in Qingcheng District, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. On the Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway The Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway, also called the Wuguang high-speed railway and short for Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong high-speed railway, Wuhan–Guangzhou section, is a high-speed rail line, operated by China Railway Hi ..., it is served by high speed trains. Opened on 26 December 2009, Qingyuan railway station is located some distance to the east of the Qingyuan city, but is closer to it than Yuantan railway station on the Beijing–Guangzhou railway. References Railway stations in Guangdong Railway stations in China opened in 2009 Stations on the Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway {{Guangdong-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road; it continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub as well as being one of China's three largest cities. For a long time, the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders, Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major transshipment port. Due to a high urban population and large volumes of port traffic, Guangzhou is classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world. Due to worldwide travel restrictions at the beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town (China)
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese (traditional: ; ). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with for example townships (). A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town. Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages (, or ). Map representation A typical provincial map would merely show a town as a circle centered at its urban area and labeled with its name, while a more detailed one (e.g., a map of a single county-level division) would also show the borders dividing the county or county-level city into towns () and/or township () and subdistrict (街道) units. The town in which the county level government, and usually the division's mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingxin District
Qingxin District (), formerly Qingxin County, is a district of Qingyuan City, in northwest-central Guangdong province, China. In Mandarin Chinese, the name literally translates to "Fresh and Clean". Qingxin is the location of Taihe Ancient Caves Taihe ( unless otherwise noted) may refer to: Locations in China *Taihe County, Anhui, in Fuyang, Anhui *Taihe County, Jiangxi (泰和县), in Ji'an, Jiangxi *Taihe District, Jinzhou, Liaoning * Taihe Tujia Ethnic Township, in Fengjie County, Chon ..., a local tourist attraction. County-level divisions of Guangdong Qingyuan {{Guangdong-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
