Rentian (), formerly known as Taiping (), 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 ...
in
Shanghang County
Shanghang (; hak, Sông-hông-yen) is a county in southwest Fujian Province, China, bordering Guangdong Province to the southwest. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Longyan.
Transportation
Part of Shanghang County i ...
,
Longyan
Longyan (; Hakka: ''Liùng-ngàm''; Longyan dialect: ''Lengngia'') is a prefecture-level city in south-western Fujian Province, China, bordering Guangdong to the south and Jiangxi to the west.
History
In 736 AD, (the Tang dynasty), the prefect ...
, in southwestern
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...
province,
China
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. The town spans an area of ,
and has a
hukou
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population of 24,985 as of 2018.
Geography
The town is bordered by to the north and to the south.
The runs through the town.
76.9% of the town is forested.
Administration
The town administers 18
administrative villages:
* Taihu ()
* Huahou ()
* Zhutian ()
* Shipai ()
* Dayan ()
* Nankeng ()
* Yekeng ()
* Caikeng ()
* Guantian ()
* Meizhen ()
* Changtan ()
* Butou ()
* Liansi ()
* Fenglang ()
* Lougang ()
* Fengshan ()
* Zhenqi ()
* Qikeng ()
Economy
As of 2018, the town's primary sector totaled ¥425 million, the secondary sector totaled ¥253 million, and the tertiary sector totaled ¥1.019 billion.
Mineral resources in the town include
molybdenum
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,
iron
Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in f ...
,
rare earth elements
The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or (in context) rare-earth oxides or sometimes the lanthanides (yttrium and scandium are usually included as rare earths), are a set of 17 nearly-indistinguishable lustrous silve ...
,
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
kaolinite
Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral ...
.
Rentian's major crops include
pomelo
The pomelo ( ), ''Citrus maxima'', is the largest citrus fruit from the family Rutaceae and the principal ancestor of the grapefruit. It is a natural, non-hybrid, citrus fruit, native to Southeast Asia. Similar in taste to a sweet grapefr ...
,
lemon
The lemon (''Citrus limon'') is a species of small evergreen trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India (Assam), Northern Myanmar or China.
The tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit is used for culin ...
, and
camellia
''Camellia'' (pronounced or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are more than 220 described species, with some controversy ...
.
Culture
Many of the town's inhabitants are
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...
, with the six prominent Hakka clans in the town being the Liu (), the You (), the Huang (), the Liu (), the Qiu (), and the Chen ().
Transportation
Fujian Provincial Highway 309 runs north to south thru the town.
Notable people
* ,
People's Liberation Army
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General
Notes and references
*{{GEOnet, -1913495
Township-level divisions of Fujian