Gaoyang County () is a

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

in the central part of

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of Chi ...

Baoding Baoding (), formerly known as Baozhou and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2010 census, Baoding City had 11,194,382 inhabitants out of which 2,176,857 lived in the b ...

and has an area of . The county seat is in Gaoyang Town ().

Administrative divisions

There are 4 towns and 5 townships under the county's administration. Towns: * Gaoyang (), Pangkou (), Xiyan (), Xingjianan () Townships: * Jinzhuang Township (),

Pukou Township Pukou District (), is one of 11 districts 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 coun ...

(), Xiaowangguozhuang Township (),

Longhua Township Longhua may refer to: Places in the People's Republic of China * Longhua County (隆化县), in Hebei * Longhua District, Shenzhen (龙华区), in Shenzhen, Guangdong * Longhua District, Haikou (龙华区), in Haikou, Hainan * Longhua Temple (龙� ...

(), Pangjiazhuang Township ()

Climate

Notable inhabitants

Liang Tsai-Ping Liang Tsai-Ping (, born Gaoyang County (), Hebei, China, February 23, 1910 or 1911; died Taipei, Taiwan, June 28, 2000) was a master of the '' guzheng'', a Chinese traditional zither. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important p ...

guzheng The zheng () or gu zheng (), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from '' Paulownia'' wood. Other ...

player *

Qi Xin Qi Xin (; born November 3, 1926) is a Chinese author and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who wrote various articles on her husband, Chinese communist revolutionary Xi Zhongxun. She is the mother of Xi Jinping, current General Sec ...

, author and member of the Chinese Communist Party, wife of Chinese communist revolutionary

Xi Zhongxun Xi Zhongxun (15 October 1913 – 24 May 2002) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a subsequent political official in the People's Republic of China. He is considered to be among the first and second generation of Chinese leadership. ...

and mother of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Chinese President

Xi Jinping Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, ...

References

External links

Geography of Baoding County-level divisions of Hebei {{Baoding-geo-stub