Yangling District () is a district of the city 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 m ...

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

province,

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, located on the plains of

Wei River The Wei River () is a major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. It is the largest tributary of the Yellow River and very important in the early development of Chinese civilization. The source of the Wei River is close to ...

. It has an area of and a population of 155,000. The district is roughly to the west of the provincial capital

Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqi ...

History

Yangling received its name as the family burial site of founding emperor Yang Jian () of the

Sui Dynasty The Sui dynasty (, ) was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China that lasted from 581 to 618. The Sui unified the Northern and Southern dynasties, thus ending the long period of division following the fall of the Western Jin dynasty, and la ...

. Starting in 1979, Yangling went through several administrative region changes until it became a district to the City of Xianyang in 1983. In 1997 the Yangling High Tech Agriculture Sector Demonstration District was established in Yangling District as a testing ground for new agriculture technology and techniques.

Administrative divisions

As of 2016, this District is divided to 2 subdistricts and 3 towns. ;Subdistricts * Yangling Subdistrict () * Litai Subdistrict () ;Towns * Wuquan () * Dazhai () * Rougu ()

Economy

*Industrial Zone **Yangling Agriculture Hi-Tech Industrial Zone Yangling Agriculture Hi-Tech Industrial Zone was approved as a national-level hi-tech development zone by State Council in 1997. It is only away from Xi'an to the east and away from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport.Yangling has an economic twinning community in the Netherlands,

Lansingerland Lansingerland is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It was formed on 1 January 2007, by the merger of the municipalities of Berkel en Rodenrijs, Bleiswijk and Bergschenhoek, collectively known as the "B-Tr ...

in terms of Agricultural Industry

Tourism

Tai Bai Mountains () are located nearby Yangling district (35–40 km).

Education

Yangling is home to the main campus of

Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University (NWAFU; ) is a key national public research university in Xianyang, Shaanxi, China, under the administration of the Ministry of Education. NWAFU is a member of "Project 985" club, which is an origanization of 39 the mos ...

(NWAFU), established in 1934 by

Yang Hucheng Yang Hucheng () (26 November 1893 – 6 September 1949) was a Chinese general during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang general during the Chinese Civil War. Yang Hucheng joined the Xinhai Revolution in his youth and had be ...

() who was the general of the

Northwest Army The Guominjun (), a.k.a. Nationalist Army, KMC, also called the Northwest Army (西北軍) or People's Army, refers to the military faction founded by Feng Yuxiang, Hu Jingyi and Sun Yue during China's Warlord Era. History The Guominjun was ...

under the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Ta ...

References

External links

Official website of Yangling District Government
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