() is a

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under the jurisdiction of the

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' ...

Quanzhou Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It is situated in the middle of the

coast, between

and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as of late 2003, with a non-agricultural population of 289,396 people. The dialect is

Hui'an dialect The Hui'an dialect (), is a variety of Chinese mostly spoken in Hui'an in South Fujian Province, China. It belongs to the Hokkien subgroup of Southern Min. Phonology The Hui'an dialect has 14 phonemic initials and over 80 finals. Consonants T ...

, related to

Hokkien The Hokkien () variety of Chinese is a Southern Min language native to and originating from the Minnan region, where it is widely spoken in the south-eastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is one of the national languages in ...

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into fifteen

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 ...

and one

ethnic township The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often voc ...

. The only township in the county is Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township. ''Towns'': * (), the county seat (the location marked on most maps as "Hui'an") * Luòyáng (), *

Chongwu Chongwu Town (China), Town () is a List of township-level divisions of Fujian, township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China. Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peni ...

(), * Dongyuan (), * Zhangban (), * Dongling (), * Wangchuan (), * Tuzhai (), * Luóyáng (), * Huangtang (), *

Shanxia Shanxia (named after the Shanxi Province) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Shanxi Province that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Campanian, ~99-71 Ma) in what is now the Huiquanpu Formation. ''Shanxia'' may ...

(), * Jingfeng (), * Dongqiao (), * Zishan (), * Xiaozuo ()

Economy

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Hui'an people have long been engaged in quarrying local

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

and using it for construction purposes. Traditional houses and other structures in the region are constructed from long narrow blocks of granite. These days, Hui'an's stone workers have built on their experience by becoming manufacturers of stone statuary for China's temples, public places, businesses, and private residences. These days, the road (Huichong Highway) between the Hui'an County seat and the town of

is practically lined up with production plants and showrooms of stone-working companies, statues of all kinds displayed in front of them. Footwear manufacturing is developed in a number of towns in the western part of the county, closer to Quanzhou. Dali Foods Group has its headquarters in Hui'an County.联系我们
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Transportation

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The Hui'an Railway Station, on the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway, is located about northwest of Hui'an's county seat, and is connected to it by a new divided highway (that passes through the Dalingtou Tunnel []), with frequent local bus service. Although a lot fewer trains stop at Hui'an than at major stations such as Quanzhou Railway Station, Quanzhou, there is a train in each direction every hour or two during the day. There is no night service. The freight-only

Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo Railway The Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo railway (), also known as the Zhangquanxiao railway, is a regional railway in Fujian Province, China. The line runs eastward from Zhangping, in the interior, to Quanzhou, on the coast, and terminates at the X ...

runs south of the county seat.

References

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