Huating () is a

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, formerly Huating County, in the east of

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, China, bordering

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to the northwest. It is under the administration of the

Pingliang Pingliang () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the south and east and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the north. The city was established in 376 AD. It has a residential population of 2, ...

City. Its postal code is 744100, and in 1999 its population was 176,941 people. Huating was first established in 605 CE, the first year of the Daye era,

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(). It is named after Huajian Mountain (). In 2018 Huating County was upgraded to Huating county-level city. Huating has long been a center of coal mining and porcelain production in Gansu. In 2006 it produced over 14 million tons of coal. The agriculture output of Huating is centered around walnuts, medicinal plants, in particular

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, and beef cattle. In July 2010 13 people died in Huating County in a

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triggered by heavy rains. Two people survived.

Administrative divisions

Huating City is divided to 1 subdistricts, 7 towns, 3 townships and 1 others. ;Subdistricts * Donghua () ;Towns ;Townships * Shenyu Township() * Shanzhai Township() * Yanxia Township () ;Others * Shibaozi Development Zone Management Committee()

Climate

References

* Huating County Pingliang {{Gansu-geo-stub

Administrative divisions

Climate

See also

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