Pujiang County () is a

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, it is under the administration of the

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, the provincial capital.

Administrative divisions

Pujiang County jurisdiction over 2 streets and 6 towns. Pujiang County People's Government is located in Heshan Street Government Street No. 31.

Streets

* Heshan Street(鹤山街道) * Shouan Street(寿安街道)

Towns

* Datang town(大塘镇) * Zhaoyanghu town(朝阳湖镇) * Xilai town(西来镇) * Daxing town(大兴镇) * Ganxi town(甘溪镇) * Chengjia town(成佳镇)

Geography

Pujiang County is in the Southwest part of the

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and in the area from East longitude 103°19′to 103°41′ and from North latitude 30°05′ to 30°20′. It borders

Pengshan Pengshan District () is a district of the city of Meishan, Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" b ...

and

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in the east, Mingshan in the west, Danlin (

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) in the south, and

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in the north, stretching 37 kilometers from east to west and 27.5 kilometers from north to south.

History

In the 4th century BC the Qin Kingdom annexed the Shu Kingdom and established Puyang county in the Pushui area. In the

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, Puyang county was eliminated and affiliated with Linyi county. In 554 AD, it was built as Guangding county and in 601 AD the name was changed to Pujiang. The county was originally located in Lixudi in the north and during the

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reign, the emperor moved the county to what is now Heshan town under the jurisdiction of Qiongzhou, and later under

, then

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. In 1983 it was put under the administration of the city of

Industrial area

The urban district, Pujiang Centralized Area for Industrial Development, is near to Chendu-Ya'an Highway, 68 kilometers from Chengdu. The area is the only processing center for agriculture by-products at the state level in Chengdu. The size is approximately 6 square kilometers and the shorter-term development area is 5.4 square kilometers. Its emphasis is on developing food drinking biology, medicine, light industry, manufacturing, and other high technology ventures.

Administrative divisions

Streets

Towns

Geography

History

Industrial area

Climate

References

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