Huangdao District () and Xihai'an New Area (), also known as Qingdao West Coast is a

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and a state-level new area of Qingdao, Shandong, China, located southwest and west of the main urban area of the city on the western shore of

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. It was identical to Qingdao Economic and Technological Development Zone (QETDZ, ), which was launched in 1985 after the zone was merged with Huangdao District and set up the

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in 1992. In December 2012, Jiaonan, a

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in Qingdao was merged into Huangdao District. The pillar industries engaged in the zone include

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, household

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s, machinery and

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. It is connected via the

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge Jiaozhou Bay Bridge (or Qingdao Haiwan Bridge) is a long roadway bridge in eastern China's Shandong province, which is part of the Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project. The longest continuous segment of the bridge is , making it one of the longes ...

. In mid 2018, the Ministry of Civil Affairs approved the consolidation of Huangdao District Government and Xihai'an New Area Government into a single governing body, which became the fourth administrative state-level

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after

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;

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; and Nansha of

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. The population was 1.71 million in 2014.

Administrative divisions

Huangdao is divided into 12

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and 10 more rural

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; the latter half of the current subdistricts and all towns were ceded from Jiaonan City.

Subdistricts (街道)

Towns (镇)

Transport

Railway Station

Qingdao West railway station Qingdao West railway station () is a railway station located in Huangdao District, Qingdao, Shandong, China. It opened with the Qingdao–Yancheng railway on 26 December 2018. Metro station The under construction Line 6 (Qingdao Metro), Line 6 o ...

Metro

* Line 1 * Line 6 (under construction) * Line 13

Climate

References

External links

Huangdao District / Xihai'an New Area Government official website
{{Authority control Populated places established in 1985 Geography of Qingdao New areas (China) 1985 establishments in China County-level divisions of Shandong Districts of China