Pingjiang County () is a

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in the northeast of

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, China. It is the easternmost

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of the

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. The county is located on the eastern margin of the province, the

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runs through the county from east to west. It is bordered to the north by

Yueyang County Yueyang County () is a county in Hunan province, China. It is under the administration of Yueyang City. The county is located on the northeastern margin of the province, the Xiang River runs through the west land of the county from south to eas ...

, to the west by

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, to the south by

Changsha County Changsha County () is a county in Hunan Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changsha. Located in the west portion of Changsha, the county is bordered to the north by Miluo City and Pingjiang County, t ...

and Liuyang City, to the east by Xiushui and Tonggu Counties of

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, to the northeast by

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. Pingjiang County covers an area of , as of 2015, it had a registered population of 1,106,900 and a permanent resident population of 979,300. The county has 19 towns and 5 townships under its jurisdiction. The government seat is

Hanchang Town Hanchang Town () is a town and the county seat of Pingjiang in Hunan, China. It was reformed through the amalgamation of Chengguan Town () and Dongyuan Township () in 1995.the History of Pingjiang County / 平江县历史沿革, sexzqh.org (2016-02 ...

().

History

In the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...

, Pingjiang was a part of the ''Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area'' (), and, from 1931 November, of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet (). The Communist Marshal

Peng Dehuai Peng Dehuai (; October 24, 1898November 29, 1974) was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, who served as China's Defense Minister from 1954 to 1959. Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary edu ...

was a Kuomintang Colonel in 1928, when he was stationed in Pingjiang with orders to eliminate local groups of communist guerrillas who had fled to the area following

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

's nationwide suppression of Communists. Because Peng had secretly joined the

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he instead kept his unit passive and began to organize local Communist Party branches. Peng rebelled against the Kuomintang on 28 July 1928, beginning his career as a military leader in the Red Army from his base in Pingjiang. Some of Peng's subordinates in the rebellion survived and became important military figures themselves, including generals

Huang Kecheng Huang Kecheng () (October 1, 1902 – December 28, 1986) was a senior general (大将) in the People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and th ...

and

Peng Shaohui Peng Shaohui (; 6 September 1906 – 25 April 1978) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of China, who served two separate terms as deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army, from 1954 to 1967 and from 1969 to 1978. Peng was the o ...

Administrative divisions

According to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Pingjiang County on 24 November 2015, Pingjiang has 5 townships and 19 towns under its jurisdiction,According to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Pingjiang County on 24 November 2015
rednet (2015-12-04): 《湖南省民政厅关于同意平江县乡镇区划调整方案的批复》(湘民行发〔2015〕72号)
also se

they are: ;5

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

* Banjiang () * Dazhou, Pingjiang () * Mujin, Pingjiang () * Sandun () * Sanyang () ;19

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 ...

* Anding, Pingjiang () * Cenchuan () * Changshou, Pingjiang () * Fushoushan () *

() *

Hongqiao, Pingjiang Hongqiao () is a town in the northeast of Pingjiang County in the Tianjing Mountains () of northeastern Hunan province, China, situated near the border with Jiangxi. It is from the county seat and southeast of downtown Yueyang. , it has one resi ...

() * Jiayi, Pingjiang () * Longmen, Pingjiang () * Meixian, Pingjiang () * Nanjiang, Pingjiang (Nankiang) () * Sanshi () * Shangtashi () * Tongshi () * Wengjiang () * Wukou () * Wushi, Pingjiang () * Xiangjia () * Niushizhai () * Yuping, Pingjiang ()

Climate

Notes and references

External links

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