Huainan () is a

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' ...

with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

province, China. It is named for the

Han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

-era

Principality of Huainan Huainan Kingdom was a kingdom of China's Han dynasty, located in what is now parts of Anhui, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces. History The title "King (or Prince) of Huainan" was first created in 202BC by Liu Bang, King of Han, for Ying Bu, the forme ...

. It borders the provincial capital of

Hefei Hefei (; ) is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census and its built-up ( ...

to the south, Lu'an to the southwest, Fuyang to the west, Bozhou to the northwest, Bengbu to the northeast and

Chuzhou Chuzhou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Anhui Province, China. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south and southwest, Huainan to the west, Bengbu to the northwest, and the province of Jiangsu to the east. According to ...

to the east. Huainan is one of the core cities of Hefei Metropolitan Circle and is known for its coal industry and

thermal power plants A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a steam ...

. Its built-up area made of 4 urban districts (all but Panji not yet conurbated) and Fengtai County largely being urbanized, was home to 1,868,944 inhabitants as of 2020. Its city flower is the Chinese rose (''

Rosa chinensis ''Rosa chinensis'' (), known commonly as the China rose, Chinese rose, or Bengal rose, is a member of the genus ''Rosa'' native to Southwest China in Guizhou, Hubei, and Sichuan Provinces. The first publication of ''Rosa chinensis'' was in 1768 b ...

'') and its city tree is the Old-World Plane Tree ('' Platanus orientalis''). It is also considered to be the hometown and birthplace of tofu.

Administration

The

of Huainan administers seven county-level divisions, including five

districts 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 two counties. * Tianjia'an District () * Panji District () * Xiejiaji District () * Datong District () *

Bagongshan District Bagongshan () is a district of the city of Huainan, Anhui Province, China. The district is famous for its beef soup, often eaten for breakfast, its tofu, and for being the located of Bagong Mountain Scenic Spot. Administrative divisions In the ...

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Fengtai County Fengtai County () is a county in the north of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Huainan city. Author Li Hengrui (), whose work "Kite Capriccio" () describes life as a child in the 1950s in Fengtai County is included in the ...

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Shou County Shou County or Shouxian () is a county in the north-central part of Anhui Province, China, and is located on the southern (right) bank of the Huai River. It is the southernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city A prefectur ...

() These are further divided into 66 township-level divisions, including 24

towns 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 ...

, 23 townships and 19

subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district. Equivalents * Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language * Kelurahan, in Indonesia * Mukim, a township in Brunei, In ...

High-tech development zone

Shannan New Area Huainan () is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui province, China. It is named for the Han dynasty, Han-era Principality of Huainan. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the ...

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Geography

The urban centre is located on a plain on the south bank of the

Huai River The Huai River (), Postal Map Romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in China. It is located about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze, the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins ...

, bordering Gaotang Lake on the east and forested hill area on the south. To the west are

and

Climate

Economy

Huainan is a major production center for

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

, with an output of 43.28 million tons in 2006. The city hosted the 17th China Tofu Cultural Festival on September 15–17, 2010, including the National Bean Products Exhibition.

Education

Anhui University of Science and Technology Anhui University of Science and Technology () one of the five key universities in Anhui Province, China. It is situated in Huainan Huainan () is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui p ...

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official website
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Huainan Normal University Huainan () is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui province, China. It is named for the Han-era Principality of Huainan. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south, Lu'an ...

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official website
* Huainan United University (
official website
*Huainan Vocational Technical College (
official website
*Anhui Industry&Trade Vocational Technical College (
official website
*Anhui Modern Information Engineering College (
official website
The key high schools: * Huainan No.1 High School () * Huainan No.2 High School () * Huainan No.5 High School () * Huainan No.4 High School () * Fengtai No.1 High School () * Shouxian No.1 High School ()

Transportation

East of the city a bridge crosses the Huai River, shared by the Fuyang-Huainan Railway and highway S225. Near the city center, a ferry provides connection to the (rural) north bank of the Huai River.