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Qingtongxia Dam
Qingtongxia (, Xiao'erjing: ٿٍْطْوثِيَا شِ) is a city in north-central Ningxia, China. Administratively, Qingtongxia is a county-level city within the prefecture-level city of Wuzhong. It is located on the left (northwestern) bank of the Yellow River, opposite and a bit upstream of Wuzhong main urban area, and borders Inner Mongolia to the west. Qingtongxia had 264,717 residents in 2010. Many residents of Qingtongxia are Hui Muslim. Places of interest On the bank of the Yellow River outside the city of Qingtongxia is the site of 108 Buddhist stupas which were constructed during the Western Xia period. Economy Qingtongxia Dam on the Yellow River () is located in Qingtongxia. A major irrigation canal branches off the river near the dam and runs north. Administrative divisions Qingtongxia City has 1 subdistrict 7 towns and 2 farms. ;1 subdistrict * Yumin (, ) ;7 towns * Xiaoba (, ) * Chenyuantan (, ) * Xiakou (, ) * Qujing Qujing () is a prefecture-level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County-level City
A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a Administrative divisions of China#County level (3rd), county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local ordinance, local law and are usually governed by Administrative divisions of China#Prefectural level (2nd), prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by Administrative divisions of China#Provincial level (1st), province-level divisions. A county-level city is a "city" () and "county" () that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity and a county which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated Counties of Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Xia
The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (), officially the Great Xia (), also known as the Tangut Empire, and known as ''Mi-nyak''Stein (1972), pp. 70–71. to the Tanguts and Tibetans, was a Tangut-led Buddhist imperial dynasty of China that existed from 1038 to 1227. At its peak, the dynasty ruled over the modern-day northwestern Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Gansu, eastern Qinghai, northern Shaanxi, northeastern Xinjiang, and southwest Inner Mongolia, and southernmost Outer Mongolia, measuring about . Its capital was Xingqing (modern Yinchuan), until its destruction by the Mongols in 1227. Most of its written records and architecture were destroyed, so the founders and history of the empire remained obscure until 20th-century research in China and the West. The Western Xia occupied the area around the Hexi Corridor, a stretch of the Silk Road, the most important trade route between northern China and Central Asia. They made significant achievements in literature, art, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities In Ningxia
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingtongxia
Qingtongxia (, Xiao'erjing: ٿٍْطْوثِيَا شِ) is a city in north-central Ningxia, China. Administratively, Qingtongxia is a county-level city within the prefecture-level city of Wuzhong. It is located on the left (northwestern) bank of the Yellow River, opposite and a bit upstream of Wuzhong main urban area, and borders Inner Mongolia to the west. Qingtongxia had 264,717 residents in 2010. Many residents of Qingtongxia are Hui Muslim. Places of interest On the bank of the Yellow River outside the city of Qingtongxia is the site of 108 Buddhist stupas which were constructed during the Western Xia period. Economy Qingtongxia Dam on the Yellow River () is located in Qingtongxia. A major irrigation canal branches off the river near the dam and runs north. Administrative divisions Qingtongxia City has 1 subdistrict 7 towns and 2 farms. ;1 subdistrict * Yumin (, ) ;7 towns * Xiaoba (, ) * Chenyuantan (, ) * Xiakou (, ) * Qujing Qujing () is a prefecture-level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lianhu Farm
Lianhu District () is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and .... The district borders the districts of Weiyang to the north, Xincheng to the east, Beilin to the southeast, and Yanta to the southeast. It is divided into the following administrative divisions: References Districts of Xi'an {{Shaanxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daba, Ningxia
Daba () is a town under the administration of Qingtongxia, Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ..., China. , it administers Dianchang () Residential Neighborhood and the following 15 villages: *Daba Village *Weiqiao Village () *Shamiao Village () *Limin Village () *Chenjun Village () *Jiangdong Village () *Jiangnan Village () *Xinqiao Village () *Lixin Village () *Sankeshu Village () *Huashigou Village () *Wanglaotan Village () *Shangtan Village () *Zhongzhuang Village () *Zhongtan Village () References {{Ningxia-geo-stub Township-level divisions of Ningxia Qingtongxia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qujing
Qujing () is a prefecture-level city in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the east and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the southeast; thus, it was called "Key between Yunnan and Guizhou" () and "Throat of Yunnan" () in the past. It is part of the Central Yunnan Metropolitan Region plan () in effect for 2016–49. Its administrative population is 6,047,000 according to a 2015 estimate, of whom, 1,408,500 reside in the metro area, which contains Qilin District, Zhanyi District and Malong District. During the 11th National Five-Year Plan period, the government of Qujing planned to develop the city into the "big city at the origin of the Pearl River" () in the following decades, including increasing the built-up urban area to past and the urban population to surpass 1 million by 2020, the second in Yunnan, after Kunming. Geography and climate Qujing is located in the east of Yunnan province, about east of Kunming, the provincial capital. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiakou, Ningxia
Xiakou () is a town under the administration of Qingtongxia, Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ..., China. , it has 13 villages under its administration. References {{Ningxia-geo-stub Township-level divisions of Ningxia Qingtongxia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiaoba, Ningxia
Xiaoba () is a town under the administration of Qingtongxia, Ningxia, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and .... , it has nine villages under its administration. References Township-level divisions of Ningxia Qingtongxia {{Ningxia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
