Houshayu Area () is an area and a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located on the western side of
Shunyi District
Shunyi District () is an administrative district of Beijing, located to the northeast of the city's urban core. As of 2014, the population of the district is around 983,000, of which approximately 601,000 have local residency permits. The Beiji ...
,
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
,
China
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. It shares border with Gaoliying Town in the north, Nanfaxin Town and
Capital Airport Subdistrict
Capital Airport Subdistrict () is a subdistrict and an exclave of Chaoyang District, Beijing, China. It borders Nanfaxin and Houshayu Towns to the north, and Tianzhu Town to other three directions. It hosts Terminal 1 and 2 of the Beijing Capit ...
in the east,
Konggang Subdistrict
Konggang Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in the southwestern portion of Shunyi District, Beijing, China. It shares border with Houshayu Town in its north, Tianzhu Town in its east, and Sunhe Township in its southwest. As of 2020, it had a populat ...
in the south, and Beiqijia Town in the west. It had a population of 74,841 as of 2020.
The town's name originated in the
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fifth ...
. At the time the settlement in this region was called Shayu () for its concaved landscape and being covered in sands. It was split into two villages in the
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...
, and Houshayu became the predecessor of the town today.
History
Administrative divisions
As of 2021, Houshayu Area was composed of 16 subdivisions, in which 6 were
communities
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communiti ...
and 10 were
villages:
Gallery
File:2009北京第七届顺义花博会室外馆 - panoramio.jpg, The 7th Shunyi Flower Exhibition, 2009
File:Central road in Tiejiangying (20180411183039).jpg, Main street of Tiejiangying Village, 2018
File:北京市顺义区空港医院 2018-05-26 100554.jpg, Parking section of Konggang Hospital, 2018
File:Houshayu Station (20200612162001).jpg, Houshayu Station of Beijing Subway, 2020
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divi ...
References
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Shunyi District
Towns in Beijing