Yanghu Subdistrict () is a
subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district.
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of
Yuelu District
Yuelu District () is one of six urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. It is the 4th most populous district (after Heshan, Dingcheng and Yueyanglou Districts) in Hunan. The district is bo ...
in
Changsha
Changsha (; ; ; Changshanese pronunciation: (), Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China. Changsha is the 17th most populous city in China with a population of over 10 million, an ...
,
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...
, China. It is historically the territory of ''Yanghu Township'' (), ''Wangcheng County'' in 1951. The subdistrict covers an area of with a registered population of 24,896 (as of 2015). It has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.
History
The subdistrict is named after ''Yanghuyuan'' or ''Yanghu Cofferdam'' (), which is the present-day
Yanghu Wetland Park. The park is a
wetland
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in the
Jin River estuary area. Its ancient name was "''Waguankou''" (or "''Waguan Estuary''"; ). The Jin River is a first-level tributary of the
Xiang River
The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the 2nd largest tributary (after Min River) in terms of surface runoff, the 5th largest tributar ...
and it is named after the tomb of ''Jin Shang'' ), a
scholar-official
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Scholar-officials were politicians and governmen ...
of
Chu State
Chu, or Ch'u in Wade–Giles romanization, (, Hanyu Pinyin: Chǔ, Old Chinese: ''*s-r̥aʔ'') was a Zhou dynasty vassal state. Their first ruler was King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE. Chu was located in the south of the Zhou he ...
.
Yanghu Subdistrict was historically a part of ''Yanghu Township'' () in 1951 and a part of ''Pingtang People's Commune'' () of ''Wangcheng County'' () in 1958. In 1962, it was the territory of ''Pingtang Commune'' () of ''Pingtang District'' () in Changsha County. Wangcheng County was re-established from Changsha County in 1978 and it was part of Wangcheng County, ''Pingtang Commune'' was reorganized as a township in 1984 and ''Pingtang Township'' () was merged to ''Pingtang Town'' () in 1985. On June 15, 2008, Pingtang Town was assigned to the jurisdiction of Yuelu District from Wangcheng County.
On August 3, 2012, the town of Pingtang was reorganized as
Pingtang Subdistrict. On January 18, 2013, the subdistrict of Yanghu was established from four villages of ''Yanghu'' (), ''Lianshan'' (), ''Lantian'' () and ''Shantang'' () and three communities of ''Pingtang'' (), ''Baimiaozi'' () and ''Xinsheng'' () of
Pingtang Subdistrict.
Subdivisions
When Yanghu Subdistrict was founded in 2013, it had four villages and three communities. As a new round of the ''Amalgamation of Village-level Divisions'' () in 2016, ''Shantang Community'' was established by combining ''Shantang Village'' and ''Xiangping Community'' (formerly ''Pingtang Community'').
[Shantang Community held an unveiling ceremony on 16 April 2016 / se]
changsha.gov (2016-04-18)
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/ref> The subdistrict has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.
References
External links
Official Website （Chinese / 中文）
{{Divisions of Yuelu District, Changsha
Yuelu District
Subdistricts of Changsha