Xingqing District (,
Xiao'erjing
Xiao'erjing or Xiao'erjin or Xiaor jin or in its shortened form, Xiaojing, literally meaning "children's script" or "minor script" (cf. "original script" referring to the original Perso-Arabic script; zh, s=本经, t=本經, p=Běnjīng, Xiao ...
: ) is one of three
urban districts of 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' ...
of
Yinchuan
Yinchuan (, ; ) is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, and was the capital of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. It has an area of and a total population of 2,859,074 according to the 2020 Chinese census, and its built- ...
, the capital of
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...
,
Northwest
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China
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, bordering
Inner Mongolia
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to the east. It has a total area of , and, according to the
2010 China Census, a population of 678,306 people.
Characteristics
Xingqing District is the political, economic, scientific, cultural, financial, and commercial center of Yinchuan, the capital city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The district administers two villages and two towns. Although many
Han Chinese
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live in the district, approximately 85,000 of its residents are of the
Hui
The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...
nationality. The district government is located on East Beijing Road, and the district's postal code is 750004.
Administrative divisions
Xingqing District has 10 subdistricts.
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Jiefangxijie (, )
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Wenhuajie (, )
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Funingjie (, )
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Xinhuajie (, )
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Yuhuanggebei (, )
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Qianjinjie (, )
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Zhongshannanjie (, )
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Yingulu (, )
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Shenglijie (, )
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Lijingjie (, )
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Fenghuangbeijie (, ): was merged to other.
References
County-level divisions of Ningxia
Yinchuan
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