Yuanzhou District, formerly Guyuan, is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

and the seat of the city of

Guyuan (), formerly known as Xihaigu (, Xiao'erjing: قُ‌يُوًا شِ), is a prefecture-level city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. It occupies the southernmost section of the region, bordering Gansu provin ...

in the south of

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 ...

, China, bordering

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 Tibet ...

province to the northeast. It has a total area of and a population of 510,000 people.

History

Yuanzhou includes the old town of Guyuan or Guyuanzhou, which administered a

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in imperial times and a

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before its urbanization.

Characteristics

Yuanzhou District is the economic, political, and transportation center of Guyuan. Although the district is located in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the proportion of

Hui The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

residents is actually smaller than the proportion of

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. 80 percent of the district's residents are farmers. The district government is located on Government Street, and the district's postal code is 756000.

Administrative divisions

Yuanzhou District has 3 subdistricts, 7 towns and 4 townships. ;3 subdistricts * Nanguan (, ) * Guyan () * Beiyuan () ;7 towns * Sanying (, ) * Guanting () * Kaicheng (, ) *

Zhangyi Zhangyi () is a town under the administration of Yuanzhou District, Guyuan, Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the Pe ...

(, ) * Pengbu (, ) * Touying (, ) * Huangduobao () ;4 townships * Zhonghe (, ) *

Hechuan Hechuan () is a district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, s ...

(, ) * Tanshan (, ) * Zhaike (, )

References

County-level divisions of Ningxia Guyuan {{ningxia-geo-stub