Dingyuan County () is a county of

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, China. It is under the administration of Chuzhou city.

History

The ancestral home of Li Keqiang, the Premier of the People's Republic of China, was Dingyuan. In December 2011,

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ese businessman Zhang Jiulin () held a press conference in which he described unfair treatment at the hands of local officials in Dingyuan County in a dispute about embezzlement at a company his father had owned which lead to Zhang Jiulin serving seven months in jail.

Administrative Divisions

Dingyuan County is divided into 16 towns, 5 townships, 1 ethnic township and 3 others. ;16 Towns: ;5 Townships: ;1 Ethnic Township: * Hui Erlong () ;3 Others: * Dingyuan Economic and Technological Development Zone () * Dingyuan Salt Chemical Industrial Park () * Lingjiahu Farm ()

Climate

References

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