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

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and a

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, located southwest and west of the main urban area of the city on the western shore of Jiaozhou Bay. 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 Jiaonan () was a former county and county-level city under the administration of Qingdao, Shandong province, China, located in the southwestern portion of Qingdao along the Yellow Sea coast. In 1945, as Zhushan County () it was carved from Jia ...

, a

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

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, household electric appliances,

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ry and pharmaceutical drugs. It is connected via the

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. In mid 2018, the

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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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; Binhai of

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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 subdistricts 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 of the Qingdao Metro ...

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