:''Xingning is also the era name for
Emperor Ai of the Jin dynasty.''
Xingning (
postal: Hingning; , Hakka: Hinnên) is a
county-level city
A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...
, under the jurisdiction of
Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. The second largest city in east Guangdong, Xingning has an area of and a population of 1.13 million.
Names
Xingning was formerly known as Qichang ().
History
Xingning county was established in 331CE, later becoming the capital of the 10th-century
Southern Han
Southern Han (; 917–971), officially Han (), originally Yue (), was one of the ten kingdoms that existed during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was located on China's southern coast, controlling modern Guangdong and Guangxi. The ...
Dynasty.
From its previous long-established status a county, in 1991 Xingning was upgraded to a county-level city within the municipal jurisdiction of Meizhou.
Location
Xingning is located in the north eastern part of Guangdong province and borders the counties of
Pingyuan,
Meixian,
Fengshun and
Wuhua in Meizhou City;
Longchuan in
Heiyuan City and
Xunwu
Xunwu County () is a county in the far south of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Fujian to the east and Guangdong to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou.
It was ...
in
Ganzhou City,
Jiangxi Province.
Ethno-linguistic make-up
XingNing is noted for its large
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 ...
population.
Administrative districts
The city governs three
subdistricts 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, Indon ...
and 17
towns:
Subdistricts
*
Fuxing (福兴街道)
*
Ningxin (宁新街道)
*
Xingtian (兴田街道)
Towns
*
Daping (大坪镇)
*
Diaofeng (刁坊镇)
*
Luofu (罗浮镇)
*
Luogang (罗岗镇)
*
Heshui (合水镇)
*
Huangbei (黄陂镇)
*
Huanghuai (黄槐镇)
*
Jingnan
Jingnan (), also known as Nanping (南平; alternatively written as Southern Ping) and Northern Chu () in historiography, was one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China created in 924, marking the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdo ...
(径南镇)
*
Longtian (龙田镇)
*
Nibei (坭陂镇)
*
Ningzhong (宁中镇)
*
Shima
Shima may refer to:
Places
, Japan
* Shima Province (志摩), one of the old provinces of Japan
* Shima, Fukuoka (志摩), a former town in Fukuoka Prefecture
* Shima, Mie (志摩), a city in Mie Prefecture
** Shima, Mie (town), a former town ...
()
*
Shuikou (水口镇)
*
Xinbei (新陂镇)
*
Xinwei (新圩镇)
*
Yetang (叶塘镇)
*
Yonghe (永和镇)
Transport
*
Guangzhou–Meizhou–Shantou Railway
Culture
The majority of Xingning's residents are
Hakka people
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 ...
.
Tourist attractions
*
Shenguang Hill
*
Xingning Academy
*
Heshui Reservoir
Climate
See also
*
List of township-level divisions of Guangdong
This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Guangdong, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative div ...
References
External links
Life in Xingning (家在兴宁)Xingning Government website
County-level cities in Guangdong
Meizhou
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