Dianjiang County () is a

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in the northeast of Chongqing

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, China, bordering

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province to the northwest. As of 2015, it has two subdistricts, two townships, and 22 towns under its administration.

History

Dianjiang County was developed in the time of the

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Emperor Gong Di in 555 CE. Before the Chongqing area became a municipality, Dianjiang belonged to other regions. From October 1, 1949, to March 14, 1997, it belonged to Dazhu,

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prefecture.

Administrative divisions

Dianjiang has two subdistricts, two townships, five regional center towns and 17 general towns.

Climate

Economics

Based on statistics from October 2015, in the first three quarters, Dianjiang County achieved 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 16.63 billion yuan (an increase of 11.4 percent, and faster than the growth in the previous six months by 0.4 percentage points). The contributions to the GDP were composed of the

primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any Industry (economics), industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portio ...

producing 2.17 billion yuan (an increase of 4.5%); the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

producing 8.78 billion yuan (an increase of 12.6%); and the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

producing 5.68 billion yuan (an increase of 12.2%).

Transportation

The area is served by Dianjiang railway station on the

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References

County-level divisions of Chongqing {{Chongqing-geo-stub