Suzhou District is a

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of the city of

Jiuquan Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It is more than wide from east to west, occupying , although its built-up area is mostly located in i ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibe ...

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in the

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. It was an important city in its own right. Today, as the seat of Jiuquan's administration, it is usually marked Jiuquan on maps.

Ganzhou Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District. Hist ...

and Suzhou ().

Name

Suzhou is named for the former Su Prefecture of

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History

Su Prefecture was established under the Sui and renamed

Jiuquan Commandery Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It is more than wide from east to west, occupying , although its built-up area is mostly located in i ...

under the

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. Its seat was established just within the extreme northwest angle of the

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near the

Jade Gate Yumen Pass (; Uyghur: قاش قوۋۇق), or Jade Gate or Pass of the Jade Gate, is the name of a pass of the Great Wall located west of Dunhuang in today's Gansu Province of China. During the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220), this was a p ...

. It sometimes served as the capital of the province of Gansu. Along with its role protecting trade along the

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, Suzhou was the great center of the

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trade. The old town was completely destroyed in the First Dungan Revolt but was recovered by the

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in 1873 and was swiftly rebuilt.

Administrative divisions

Suzhou District is divided to 7 Subdistricts, 14 towns, 1 townships and 3 other. ;Subdistricts ;Towns ;Townships * Huangnipu Township() ;Others * State-owned Xiaheqing Farm() * Jiuquan Economic and Technological Development Zone() * Base 10 ()

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* County-level divisions of Gansu Jiuquan {{Gansu-geo-stub

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