Baqiao District () is one of 11

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of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

, the capital of

Shaanxi Province Shaanxi is a province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi ...

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. The district borders

Gaoling District Gaoling District () is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. The most densely populated of the ten districts of Xi'an, the district borders the prefecture-level city of X ...

to the north,

Lintong District Lintong District (), formerly Lintong County, is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. The district was approved to establish from the former ''Lintong County'' () by th ...

to the northeast, Chang'an District to the southeast, Yanta and Xincheng Districts to the west, and

Weiyang District Weiyang District () is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. It is located at northwest Xi'an, functioning as the new administrative centre of the city. The district b ...

to the northwest. The district spans an area of , and has a population of 595,124 as of 2010.

History

Baqiao District was established in 1954, and had jurisdiction over five

townships A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

: Donggaoqiao (), Egongdian (), Shuigou (), Yongfeng (), and Xinglin (). In 1957, the former Changle District () was merged into Baqiao. The district had a population of 402,163 in the Fourth Chinese Census, a population of 494,084 in the Fifth Chinese Census, and a population of 595,124 in the Sixth Chinese Census.

Administrative divisions

Baqiao District has nine

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. These subdistricts are further divided into 72 residential communities and 76 administrative villages. Its subdistricts are , , , , , , , , and .

Economy

As of 2019, the district's

GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performance o ...

totaled ¥48.919 billion, an 8.3% increase from the previous year. Of this, ¥1.923 billion came from the district's

primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in d ...

, ¥13.773 billion came from the district's

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

, and the remaining ¥33.223 billion came from the district's

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...

. The per capita disposable income of the district's urban residents was ¥40,328, and was ¥17,969 for rural residents.

Education

The district is home to the

PLA Rocket Force University of Engineering The Rocket Force University of Engineering () a military university in Baqiao, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force. The university consists of 3 colleges and 7 departments. At present, the unive ...

Transportation

Road

National Highway 310 and National Highway 312 pass through the district, as well as the G5 Expressway and the G30 Expressway.

Rail

The

Longhai railway The Longhai railway (), formerly romanized as the is a major arterial east–west railway in China. It runs from Lianyungang, Jiangsu, on the Yellow Sea to Lanzhou, Gansu, through the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, cove ...

and the Xi'an–Ankang railway both pass through Baqiao District.

Cultural sights

The district is the burial place of a number of Chinese emperors. The , the , and the Tomb of Han Xin are all located in Baqiao District, serving as the locations for the burials of

Emperor Wen of Han Emperor Wen of Han (; 203/02 – 6 July 157 BC), personal name Liu Heng (), was the fifth Emperor of China, emperor of the Han dynasty from 180 until his death in 157 BC. The son of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Gao and Empress Dowager Bo, Conso ...

Empress Dowager Bo Empress Dowager Bo (薄太后), personal name lost to history, was an imperial concubine of Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang). She was also known as Consort Bo (薄姬) during the life of the Emperor, and more formally as either Empress Dowager Xiao ...

, and

Han Xin Han Xin (; ? – early 196 BCE) was a Chinese military general and politician who served Liu Bang during the Chu–Han Contention and contributed greatly to the founding of the Han dynasty. Han Xin was named as one of the "Three Heroes of the ...

, respectively. One of the , the ba liu feng xue (), depicts what is present-day Baqiao District.

References

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