Dali County () is a county under the administration of the

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

Weinan Weinan () is a prefecture-level city in the east central Shaanxi province, China. The city lies on the lower section of the Wei River confluence into the Yellow River, about east of the provincial capital Xi'an, and borders the provinces of S ...

, in the east-central part of

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see #Name, § Name) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichu ...

province, China, bordering Shanxi province to the east. It covers . The population in 2002 was 690 thousand. Its economy focuses on agriculture, mainly yielding cotton and fruits, such as watermelon. Dali was a county dated back to Qin Dynasty. It used to be named as Linjin, Dali, Wuxiang, Fengyi, Tongzhou, etc.

Administration

Dali County governs 18 towns. ;Towns -Towns are upgraded from Townships. -Former Townships are merged to others. *Hujia (), Buchang (), Boshi (), Shicao (), Bayu (), Xizhai (), Zhangjia (), Shadi ()

Climate

Transportation

* Dali railway station of the Datong–Xi'an passenger railway, with frequent service to Xi'an and Taiyuan.Dali schedule

Famous Figures

Dali (fossil) Dali man () is the remains of a late ''Homo erectus'' or archaic ''Homo sapiens'' who lived in the late-mid Pleistocene epoch. The remains comprise a complete fossilized skull, which was discovered by Liu Shuntang in 1978 in Dali County, Shaanx ...

, excavated in 1978 * Ruoxi Zhang, former Minister of Education Ministry of PRC, is from Zhaoyi town in Dali county. * Fengshou Shi, an expert of rapid calculation, is also from this county. * Huaiying Dang was man of letters in Jin Dynasty. His ancestral home is Dali county. * Xiandeng Ma was an official and a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations in late

Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

References

County-level divisions of Shaanxi Weinan {{Shaanxi-geo-stub