Qingyundian Town () 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 ...
located on northeastern
Daxing District
Daxing District () is a district of Beijing, covering the southern suburbs of the city. It borders the Beijing districts of Tongzhou to the east/northeast, Fangshan to the west, Fengtai to the northwest, Chaoyang to the northeast, and the Hebe ...
,
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
,
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 shares border with
Boxing Subdistrict
Boxing Subdistrict () is a subdistrict located at the northeast of Daxing District, Beijing, China. It constitututed part of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, and is under the administration of the area. It borders Ronghua Subdistri ...
and
Yinghai Town to its north,
Majuqiao Town to its northeast, Changziying Town to its east, Anding and Weishanzhuang Towns to its south, as well as
Huangcun and
Xihongmen Towns in its west. According to the 2020 census, the population of Qingyundian was 69,612.
The name Qingyundian () originated as an evolved version of Qingrundian (), which in turn was given for the region's rich soil and abundant water supply during the
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 ...
.
History
Administrative divisions
As of the year 2021, Qingyundian Town was divided into 25 subdivisions, of those 2 were
residential communities, and 23 were
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 ...
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See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divi ...
References
{{Subdivisions of Daxing District, Beijing
Towns in Beijing
Daxing District