Huxi (湖西) was a

prefecture A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain international ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

until the 1949 establishment of the

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 an ...

, and then again from November 1952 for the better part of a year. Between 1949 and November 1952, Huxi was a prefecture in Pingyuan. It no longer exists.

History

Qing & Republic

Early PRC

In August 1949 Huxi was transferred, along with

Heze Heze, formerly known as Caozhou, is the westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong province, China, it borders Jining to the east and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively. History Caozhou was at the center ...

and

Liaocheng Liaocheng (), is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong province, China. It borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the southeast, Dezhou to the northeast, Tai'an to the south, and the provinces of Hebei and Henan to the west. The Grand ...

prefectures, out from under the Shandong government and over to that of the experimental province of Pingyuan. On November 15, 1952 the National Govt ended the experiment and restored all three prefectures to Shandong. On July 20 of the following year, Huxi was dismantled; its western half was annexed by Heze and its eastern half—with the old prefecture's eponymous Nanyang Lakefront—was annexed by

Jining Jining () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong province. It borders Heze to the southwest, Zaozhuang to the southeast, Tai'an to the northeast, and the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu to the northwest and south respectively. Jinin ...

Notes and references

{{coord missing, Shandong Former administrative divisions of China