Xunyi () is a county in the central part of

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

province, China, bordering

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

province to the north and northwest. It is the northernmost county-level division of

Xianyang Xianyang () is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi province, situated on the Wei River a few kilometers upstream (west) from the provincial capital of Xi'an. Once the capital of the Qin dynasty, it is now integrated into the Xi'an metrop ...

City. The county is noted for its apple orchards producing the "Malan Red", a variety of red Fuji apple named after the Malan

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

site. Besides apples, the economy relies on coal and petroleum exploitation. Present day Xunyi is located at the same location as the historic Bin city. Xunyi is also home to the Xunyi Pagoda, built in 1059. The county was one of the communist strongholds during the

Long March The Long March (, lit. ''Long Expedition'') was a military retreat undertaken by the Chinese Red Army, Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Revolut ...

Administrative divisions

As 2020, Xunyi is divided in 9

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 ...

and 1

subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district. Equivalents * Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language * Kelurahan, in Indonesia * Mukim, a township in Brunei, In ...

. ;Towns

Climate

Transportation

G69 Yinchuan–Baise Expressway The Yinchuan–Baise Expressway (), designated as G69 and commonly referred to as the Yinbai Expressway (), is a partially completed expressway in China. It is a major north-south expressway that when complete, will connect the cities of Yinchuan, ...

* G3511 Heze–Baoji Expressway (under construction as of January 2020) *

China National Highway 211 China National Highway 211 (G211) runs from Yinchuan in Ningxia to Xi'an in Shaanxi. It is 645 kilometres in length and runs southwest from Wuning in Ningxia and then turns southeast on a virtual straight line to Xi'an via primarily rural areas ...

References

County-level divisions of Shaanxi Xianyang {{Shaanxi-geo-stub