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Taipingxi Town (, "Taiping Stream 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 ...
in
Yiling District Yiling District () is a district of the prefecture-level city of Yichang, Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Created on July 30, 2001, the district includes most of the former Yichang County, with the exception of Yichang center city (whi ...
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Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...
Prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China ...
of China's
Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...
Province. It is located on the left (northern) side of the
Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...
, near the northern end of the
Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the world' ...
. As an administrative unit, Taipingxi occupies 152 square km (mostly, rural area), and has the population of 27,000 people.三峡工程坝头库首第一镇——宜昌市夷陵区太平溪镇
(The first town at the Three Gorges Dam and at the head of the Three Gorges Reservoir: Taiping Town, Yiling District, Yichang City)
Taipingxi town center is situated on the
Three Gorges Reservoir 3 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 3, three, or III may also refer to: * AD 3, the third year of the AD era * 3 BC, the third year before the AD era * March, the third month Books * ''Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 no ...
, less than a kilometer north-west of the Three Gorges Dam's ship locks. An important river port, Taipingxi Harbor (; ) is adjacent to the town center. This is the easternmost port facility on the Three Gorges Reservoir, the one closest to the dam. The towns of Maoping and
Sandouping Sandouping (}) is a town in Yiling District of Yichang prefecture-level city in the Chinese province of Hubei. It is located on the right (southern) bank of the Yangtze River, next to Yiling District's border with Zigui County to the west. Sand ...
are located on the opposite (southern) side of the river; Letianxi, on the same (northern) side, a few kilometers downstream. The
Xiling Bridge The Xiling Yangtze River Bridge (), is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River, just a few kilometers downstream from the Three Gorges Dam. The bridge is located within Yiling District of the prefecture-level city of Yichang (Hubei Province of ...
crosses the river downstream of the dam, connecting Taipingxi with Sandouping. Like many other towns in the
Three Gorges Reservoir Region Three Gorges Reservoir Region, including 25 county-level divisions of Chongqing municipality and Hubei province, is the region directly or indirectly involved in the submersion of the water storage of the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Dam. ...
, Taipingxi houses many residents resettled from villages flooded by the reservoir. Besides the economic activities connected to the Three Gorges Dam and the Yangtze River shipping, Taipingxi also has mining and tea plantations.


Administrative divisions

One residential community: * Wuxiangmiao () Twelve villages: * Xujiachong (), Luofo (), Longtanping (), Fuchengping (), Linjiaxi (), Meirentuo (), Xiaoxikou (), Hanjiawan (), Taipingxi (), Changling (), Huangjiachong (), Gucunping ()


See also

*
List of township-level divisions of Hubei This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Hubei, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisio ...


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Taipingxi Town Government
{{authority control Township-level divisions of Hubei Geography of Yichang Towns in China