Renshou County () is a county in Meishan City,

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" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

of China. It is located in Middle-West of

Sichuan Basin The Sichuan Basin (), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributar ...

. It has an area of , and population of 154,040,000. Founded in the

Qin dynasty The Qin dynasty ( ; zh, c=秦朝, p=Qín cháo, w=), or Ch'in dynasty in Wade–Giles romanization ( zh, c=, p=, w=Ch'in ch'ao), was the first dynasty of Imperial China. Named for its heartland in Qin state (modern Gansu and Shaanxi), ...

. Its name may derive from the first Sui Dynasty

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's palace located in

Shaanxi province Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ni ...

, Renshou palace. During the

Southern Dynasties The Northern and Southern dynasties () was a period of political division in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin dynasty. It is sometimes considered as ...

it was called Huairen County (怀仁县) and in the

Western Wei Wei (), known in historiography as the Western Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties, it ruled the weste ...

of the

Northern Dynasties The Northern and Southern dynasties () was a period of political division in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin dynasty. It is sometimes considered as ...

it was called Puning County (普宁县). Its name was changed to Renshou in 598 during the Sui Dynasty.

Demographics

Though Renshou is majority Han Chinese there is a small population of

Hui The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

, Yi, Dai, and

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peoples in the Qinggang township (青岗乡). It is common for Han residents of different areas of Renshou to visit Qinggang for their ethnic foods, especially Hui produced meat.

Language

While Mandarin in the official language, most residents speak the a dialect Renshou-Fushun subdialect of

Sichuanese Sichuanese, Szechuanese or Szechwanese may refer to something of, from, or related to the Chinese province and region of Sichuan (Szechwan/Szechuan) (historically and culturally including Chongqing), especially: *Sichuanese people, a subgroup of the ...

. Tonally, the Renshou dialect has a higher rising tone then the other subdialects in the region.

Climate

1993 riots

From mid-May to June 1993, Renshou County was the site of mass anti-tax riots, where up to 10,000 peasants protested tax measures by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms.''China is Sowing Discontent with Taxes on the Peasants''
New York Times, May 19, 1993 Causes cited for the riots include an increase in taxes and fees, failure of local officials to pay for grain collection, and the generally low income of rural residents in the area.Bernstein, Thomas P
''Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China''
Cambridge University Press, 2003

Tianfu New Area

In recent years, Renshou County has integrated into the Tianfu New Area (天府新区). The distance from Renshou's downtown to

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese pro ...

, the capital of Sichuan Province, is 110 kilometers, and 125 kilometers to Shuangliu International Airport. It also gives Renshou access to the new

Chengdu Tianfu International Airport Chengdu Tianfu International Airport is one of two airports serving Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, the other one being Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU), and a major air hub. The site of the airport was chosen a ...

only 100 kilometers away opened in 2021.

Transport

* China National Highway G213 *China National Highway G4215 *China National Highway G351 *Chengzilu Expressway S4 *Guanghong Expressway S40 *Expressway S106 *Chengdu No. 3 Raocheng Express

Townships

Tourism

* Heilongtan Lake 黑龙滩湖 * Stairway to Heaven Park 天梯公园 * Great Bear Pavilion 奎星阁 * Huayan Temple 华严寺 * Renshou Christian Church * Renshou Catholic Church * Renshou Giant Buddha 仁寿大佛 (Also called Niujiaozhai Giant Buddha 牛角寨大佛) * Thousand Buddha Rock 千佛岩 *Rock Buddha Ravine 石佛沟 Huayansi

Local Products

* Pipa Fruit (type of loquat fruit) 枇杷 * Fengshui Pear 丰水梨 * Renshou Sesame Cake 仁寿芝麻糕 * Wangyang Dried Beef 汪洋干巴牛肉

References

External links

Official website of Renshou County Government
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