Gong'an County () is a county in southern
Hubei
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province, People's Republic of China, bordering
Hunan
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to the south. It is under the administration of
Jingzhou
Jingzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hubei province, China, located on the banks of the Yangtze River. Its total residential population was 5,231,180 based on the 2020 census, 1,068,291 of whom resided in the built-up (''or metro' ...
City.
History
During the
Han dynasty
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and the
Three Kingdoms
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era, Gong'an County was known as Youjiangkou and was a part of
Jingzhou Province. It was a camp for
Liu Bei
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's forces during the
Sun–Liu territorial dispute
The Sun–Liu territorial dispute was a military conflict between the warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei in 215 during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. While Sun Quan and Liu Bei had initially formed an alliance in 208 against their common riva ...
.
In April 2009, the county drew nationwide ridicule after media reported that Gong'an officials had ordered civil servants and employees of state-owned companies to buy a total of 23,000 packs / year of a Hubei brand of cigarette. Departments whose employees failed to buy enough or who bought other brands would be fined. The officials were undaunted, saying that the increased revenue from the cigarette tax would buoy the local economy. After several weeks of embarrassment, they relented, posting a short message on their government Web site: "We have decided to remove this edict."
Administrative divisions
The county oversees 14
towns
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an or ...
() and two
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 ...
() as of 2016. Altogether 59
neighbourhood committees (), 321
village committees
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred t ...
() and 3,337 village groups come under the county's jurisdiction.
The new county seat for executive, legislative and
judiciary
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and for the
CPC and
PSB branches, is
Douhudi.
Fourteen towns:
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Buhe () (pop. 100,552)
*
Douhudi () (pop. 131,865)
*
Yangjiachang () (pop. 54,402)
*
Mahaokou () (pop. 63,032)
*
Jiazhuyuan () (pop. 56,178)
*
Zhakou () (pop. 56,754)
*
Ouchi () (pop. 46,623)
*
Huangshantou () (pop. 38,388)
*
Zhangzhuangpu () (pop. 66,622)
*
Shizikou () (pop. 67,228)
*
Banzhudang () (pop. 74,099)
*
Mengjiaxi () (pop. 49,261)
*
Nanping
Nanping (), historically known as Yanping (), is a third-tier prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde to the east, Sanming to the south, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to ...
() (pop. 56,505)
*
Maojiagang () (pop. 76,440)
Two townships:
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Ganjiachang Township () (pop. 42,591)
*
Zhangtiansi Township () (pop. 46,355)
Climate
Notes and references
External links
Gong'an County Government
{{Authority control
Counties of Hubei
Jingzhou