Shigu District () is an urban

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

of Hengyang City, Hunan province, China. The district is located in the middle north of the city proper, it is bordered by

Zhuhui District Zhuhui District () is an urban district of Hengyang City, Hunan province, China. The district is located in the east of the city proper and on the east shore of Xiang River, it is bordered by Shigu District to the northwest, Yanfeng District to t ...

to the east,

Yanfeng District Yanfeng District () is an urban district of Hengyang City, Hunan province, China. The district is located in the middle south of the city proper and on the western bank of the Xiang River, it is bordered by Zhuhui District to the east, Hengnan C ...

to the south,

Zhengxiang District Zhengxiang District () is an urban district of Hengyang City, Hunan province, China. The district is located in the west of the city proper, Zheng River flows from the west to the east. It is bordered by Shigu District to the northeast, Yanfeng D ...

to the west,

Hengyang County Hengyang County () is a county and the 5th most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Hengyang prefecture-level city. Located in the north of Hengyang City and the south east of Hunan p ...

to the north. Shigu District covers , as of 2015, it had a permanent resident population of 231,700.the population of Shigu District in 2015, according to the ''Statistical Communiqué of Shigu District on the 2015 National Economic and Social Development'' (2015年石鼓区国民经济和社会发展统计公报
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History

The district of Shigu was part of

Chu State Chu, or Ch'u in Wade–Giles romanization, (, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou he ...

in the Spring and Autumn period, it was part of ''Changsha Commandery'' () in the Qin period and a part of ''Ling County'' (; formed in 202 BC) in the

Han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

and

Three Kingdoms period The Three Kingdoms () from 220 to 280 AD was the tripartite division of China among the dynastic states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The Three Kingdoms period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and was followed by the West ...

s. ''Ling County'' was merged to ''Linzheng County'' () in the East Jin period, it was part of ''Linzheng County''. After

was formed through the amalgamation of the three counties of ''Linzheng'' (), ''Xincheng'' () and ''Chong'an'' () in 589 AD (

Sui dynasty The Sui dynasty (, ) was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that lasted from 581 to 618. The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties, thus ending the long period of division following the fall of the Western Jin dynasty, and layi ...

), it was part of Hengyang County. On Jan 1 1942, the provincial city of Hengyang was separated from the urban area and region around the county seat of Hengyang County, it was a part of the provincial city of Hengyang. The district of Shigu was established on April 4, 2001, it was named after the ''Shigu Mountain'' (). In the adjustment of subdivisions in Hengyang, Shigu District administers four subdistricts of ''Renminlu'' (), ''Xiaoxiang'' (), ''Qingshan'' (), ''Wuyi'' () and ''Hejiang'' () in the former ''Chengbei District'' (), '' Huangshawan Subdistrict'' and ''Songmu Township'' () in the former ''Suburb District'' (), four villages of ''Wuyi'' (), ''Jianshe'' (), ''You'ai'' () and ''Jiangxia'' () in ''Xihu Township'' (; of which, ''Jianshe Village'' is placed under the jurisdiction of ''Wuyi Subdistrict'', and three villages of ''Wuyi'', ''Youai'' and J''iangxia'' are placed under the jurisdiction of Hejiang Subdistrict) and ''Jiaoshan Township'' () of

. The Zhengxiang Subdistrict of the former ''Chengbei District'' was transferred to

Geography

The district of Shigu is located in the north of Hengyang. It is bordered by

across the

Xiang River The Xiang River is the chief river of the Dongting Lake, Lake Dongting Drainage basin, drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan, Hunan Province, China. It is the 2nd largest tributary (after Min River (Sichuan), Min River ...

to the east,

to the northwest, ''Jiefang Road'' as the dividing line bordering

to the south, ''Zhengxiang North Road'' as the boundary bordering

to the west. The district is dominated by hillock landforms, surrounded by ancient ridges that form intermittent bands in the ridge mountains, and inlaid with large red Cretaceous and Lower Red Tertiary red hilly terraces, constituting a typical basin situation. The main wild animals in the area include

wild sheep ''Ovis'' is a genus of mammals, part of the Caprinae subfamily of the ruminant family Bovidae. Its seven highly sociable species are known as sheep or ovines. Domestic sheep are members of the genus, and are thought to be descended from the wil ...

wild boar The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...

s, white pheasants and

pheasant Pheasants ( ) are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes. Although they can be found all over the world in introduced (and captive) populations, the pheasant genera native range is restricted to Eurasia ...

s. The main stream of the

runs near the ''Shigu Park'' through the urban area of Hengyang from ''Guiyang Town'',

Qidong County Qidong County () is a county and the 8th most populous county-level division in the Province of Hunan, China; it is under the administration of Hengyang prefecture-level city. The county was formed from the eastern part of Qiyang County in Apri ...

. In the south is ''Hongqihu Reservoir'' with an area of 22 hectares and its rain surface is two square kilometers; there are the ''Tongtang Reservoir'' in the north and ''Jiulongchong Reservoir'' and the ''Tonglutang Reservoir'' surround the foot of the mountains in the west.Geography of Shigu District / 自然地理 se
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Administrative divisions

;7 subdistricts * Hejiang () * Huangshawan () * Jinyuan () * Qingshan () * Renmin () * Wuyi () *

Xiaoxiang Xiaoxiang (), also transliterated ''XiaoXiang'', ''Hsiao Hsiang'', and ''Chiu Chiang'', in some older sources, refers to the "lakes and rivers" region in south-central China south of the middle-reaches of the Yangtze River and corresponding, more ...

() ;1 township * Jiaoshan ()

References

External links

Official Website
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