Yanjiang () is the only
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of the city of
Ziyang
Ziyang () prefecture-level city in eastern Sichuan province, China. It is bordered by the provincial capital of Chengdu to the northwest, Deyang to the north, Suining to the northeast, Chongqing municipality to the east, and Neijiang to the wes ...
,
Sichuan Province
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China. The district is located directly southeast of
Chengdu
Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese pro ...
. The district was established on June 14, 2000, by the
State Council of China.
History
Prior to annexation of by the
Qin State
Qin () was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Traditionally dated to 897 BC, it took its origin in a reconquest of western lands previously lost to the Rong; its position at the western edge of Chinese civilization permitted ex ...
, the area in the present-day Yanjiang District belonged to the
Shu State, and was part of the wider, but now extinct,
Ba-Shu culture.
Government
Administrative divisions
The Yanjiang District is divided into 4
subdistricts A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district.
Equivalents
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, 20
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 2
townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
.
The district also hosts a
labor camp, which is also included in population figures.
Subdistricts
Yanjiang contains the following four subdistricts:
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Lianhua Subdistrict ()
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Sanxianci Subdistrict ()
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Zixi Subdistrict
Zixi Subdistrict () is the most populous subdistrict within Yanjiang District, Ziyang, Sichuan Province, China. As of 2010, Zixi had a population of 83,356 people.
History
The district was created in 2005 by order of the Sichuan Provincial Gov ...
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Towns
Yanjiang contains the following twenty towns:
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Wuhuang
Wuhuang () is a town in the Yanjiang District of Ziyang, Sichuan, China. The town spans an area of , and has a hukou population of 55,180 as of 2018. The town's administrative division code is 512002110000.
Administrative divisions
Wuhuang is ...
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Townships
Yanjiang contains the following two townships:
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Huilong Township ()
Sichuan Dayan Labor Camp
Yanjiang District also is home to the Sichuan Dayan Labor Camp (), which had a recorded population of 2,184 in 2010.
Economy
The district recorded a
GDP
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is ofte ...
of 50.25 billion
Chinese Yuan
The renminbi (; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's most traded currencies, ranking as the fifth most traded currency in the world as of April 2022. ...
in 2018, an 8.1% increase from the previous year.
The following table shows a breakdown of the district's GDP:
Agriculture
As of 2018, the values of the district's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing industries totaled 9.29 billion Yuan, a 3.6% increase from 2017.
Of this, the district's seeding industry's output totaled 4.62 billion Yuan, the forestry industry's totaled 0.49 billion, animal husbandry totaled 3.32 billion, fisheries totaled 0.31 billion, and fishing-related services totaled 0.55 billion.
The district government estimates that in 2018 alone, the district produced 85,000 tons of meat, farmed 72,000 hectares of land, and had a nursery area of 40 hectares.
Telecommunications
At the end of 2018, the district reported 358,300
landline phones, 866,800
4G-capable
mobile phone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whi ...
s, and 450,500
broadband
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users.
Tourism
In 2018, Yanjiang received 7.069 million domestic tourists, contributing 4.198 billion Yuan to the district's economy.
The district also received 43,300 foreign tourists in 2018, mostly from
Hong Kong
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,
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...
, and
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
, contributing 945,600
US Dollars
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to the district's economy.
Demographics
According to the
2010 Chinese Census
The 2010 Chinese census, officially the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (中華人民共和國第六次全國人口普查), was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China w ...
, Yanjiang District had a population of 905,729 people, down from 1,016,034 recorded in the
2000 Census.
The district government's website estimated that the population stood around 1,070,000 in 2019.
Settlements
Education
At the end of 2018, the district reported hosting 424 schools, of which, 276 were
kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th ce ...
s, 81 were
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
s, 63 were
secondary schools, and 3 were
vocational secondary schools.
Transportation
Road transport
As of 2018, Yanjiang District has a road network totaling 3,970.5 kilometers in length, of which, 82.3 kilometers were
expressways.
In 2018, the district government recorded 54.52 million passenger trips on the district's roads, an 8.0% increase from 2017.
The district was home to road freight totaling a weight of 61.28 million tons, which was also an 8.0% from 2017.
Notable highways which pass through the district include the
G76 Expressway, the
S40 Suihong Expressway, the
S106 Road, and
China National Highway 321
China National Highway 321 (G321) runs northwest from Guangzhou, Guangdong towards Guangxi Province, Guizhou Province, and ends in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is 2,220 kilometres in length.
Route and distance
See also
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Maritime Transport
The district reported 2.39 million tons of freight transported via waterways in 2018, a 14.9% increase from 2017.
The main waterway in the district is the
Tuo River.
References
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