Jing County or Jingxian () is a county in the south of

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

Province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of the

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Xuancheng Xuancheng () is a city in the southeast of Anhui province. Archeological digs suggest that the city has been settled for over 4,000 years, and has been under formal administration since the Qin dynasty. Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage ...

. It has a population of 360,000 and an area of . The government of Jing County is located in Jingchuan Town. Jing County has jurisdiction over eleven towns and four townships. The county is known for its production of

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and its historic villages.

Administrative divisions

Jing County is divided to 7 towns and 2 townships. ;Towns ;Townships *Changqiao Township () *Tingxi Township ()

Climate

Tourism

Tourist spots Preservation of the county's historic villages has been challenging. According to a local official, "The key to preserving villages such as Chaji ... was to convince villagers to stay and not move away to work in the big cities." Tourist facilities for visitors to Chaji "have been built on the periphery of the ancient village to retain its pastoral landscape."

References

County-level divisions of Anhui Xuancheng {{Xuancheng-geo-stub