Xixiu District () is a

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in the

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' ...

Anshun Anshun () is a prefecture-level city located in southwestern Guizhou province, southwest China, near the Huangguoshu Waterfall, the tallest in China. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 2,297,339. The city proper had a population of 7 ...

Guizhou Province Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to the ...

, China. The district spans an area of 1,705 square kilometres, and has a population of 765,399 people as of the 2010 Chinese Census.

Geography

The district is home to a number of rivers which belong to the larger

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 ...

watershed and the

Pearl River The Pearl River, also known by its Chinese name Zhujiang or Zhu Jiang in Mandarin pinyin or Chu Kiang and formerly often known as the , is an extensive river system in southern China. The name "Pearl River" is also often used as a catch-all ...

watershed. Much of the district's landscape is characterized by

karst Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant ro ...

topography.

Climate

Xixiu District has an average annual temperature of 14 °C, and an average annual precipitation of 1356 millimetres.

Administrative divisions

Xixiu District administers 8

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, 10

towns 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 ...

, 2

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

, and 5

ethnic townships An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...

Subdistricts

The district's 8 subdistricts are , , , , , Huaxi Subdistrict, , and Xin'an Subdistrict.

Towns

The district's 10 towns are , Yaopu, , , , , , , , and .

Townships

The district's 2 townships are and .

Ethnic townships

The district's 5 ethnic townships are , , , , and .

Economy

In 2018, the district's GDP totaled 32.59 billion Yuan and retail sales totaled 7.956 billion Yuan. Significant mineral deposits in Xixiu District include

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

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 ...

, and

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite. Marble is typically not Foliation (geology), foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the ...

Transportation

The Gui-Huang Road (), a section of National Highway 320 runs through the district. The and the

Anshun–Liupanshui intercity railway The Anshun–Liupanshui intercity railway is a high-speed railway in China. History Construction began in 2015 and was originally expected to open in 2018. In fact, it opened on 8 July 2020. Route The line splits from the Changsha–Kunming high- ...

both run through the district.

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{{authority control County-level divisions of Guizhou