Piaoli () is a

town 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 ...

Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County Longsheng Various Nationalities (Gezu) Autonomous County ( zh, s=龙胜各族自治县, t=龍勝各族自治縣, p=Lóngshèng Gèzú Zìzhìxiàn; za, Lungzhingz Gakcuz Swciyen; usually referred to as "Longsheng County" ) is a county in the nort ...

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

, China. As of the 2018 census it had a population of 14,944 and an area of .

Administrative divisions

As of 2020, the town is divided into 1

residential community A residential community is a community, usually a small town or city, that is composed mostly of residents, as opposed to commercial businesses and/or industrial facilities, all three of which are considered to be the three main types of occup ...

and 10

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Residential communities

The town's sole residential community is Piaolijie Community ().

Villages

The town's 10 villages are as follows: * Dayun () * Shangtang () * Piaoli () * Jiaozhou () * Liuman () * Jiequan () * Silong () * Meidong () * Pingling () * Menghua ()

History

In early

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

(1644–1911), it belonged to Piaolixun () and Piaolitang (). In late Qing dynasty, it came under the jurisdiction of Xituan (). In the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

, it was under the jurisdiction of the West District (), and then Zhengwei Township (), and finally Zhenxi Township (). In 1994, it was upgraded to a town.

Geography

The town is located in northwestern

. It borders

Tongdao Dong Autonomous County Tongdao (the full name: "''Tongdao Dong Autonomous County''", ; usually referred to as "''Tongdao County''", ) is an autonomous county of Dong people in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huaihua ...

in the northwest, Longsheng Town in the east, Sanmen Town in the south, and

Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County (; Standard Zhuang: ) is under the administration of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is a region traditionally inhabited by the Dong people, bordering the prefecture-level divisions of Qiandongn ...

and Tongdao Dong Autonomous County in the west. The

Xun River The Xun River ( Chinese: 浔江, pinyin: Xún Jiāng, jyutping: ''Cham4 Gong1'') is a short section of the main branch of the Pearl River system upstream from the Xi Jiang in China. Although less than 200km long, it is of considerable importance ...

runs through the town west to southeast.

Demographics

The villages of Dayun (), Jiaozhou (), Liuman (), Silong (), Meidong (), and Menghua () are home to concentrations of

Zhuang people The Zhuang (; ; za, Bouxcuengh, italic=yes; ) are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces. They form one of ...

Economy

The economy of the town is supported primarily by farming, ranching and mineral resources. The region are rich in

manganese Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy use ...

and

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...

Tourist attractions

Yulongtan Scenic Spot () is a famous scenic spot in the town.

Transportation

The

G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway The Baotou–Maoming Expressway (), designated as G65 and commonly referred to as the Baomao Expressway () is an expressway that connects the cities of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, and Maoming, Guangdong. When fully complete, it will be in leng ...

, more commonly known as "Bao-Mao Expressway", passes west to southeast of the town. The

China National Highway 321 China National Highway 321 (G321) runs northwest from Guangzhou, Guangdong towards Guangxi Province, Guizhou Province, and ends in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is 2,220 kilometres in length. Route and distance See also

* China Nation ...

, commonly referred to as "G321", is a west-southeast highway passing through the town.

References

Bibliography

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