Xinhua County () is a

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and the 4th most populous county-level division in the

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Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

, China; it is under the administration of Loudi City. Located along the middle reaches of the Zi River, it covers 3,635 square kilometers and has a population of 1,291,626 (2002). Xinhua shares the border with Lengshuijiang,

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, Xinshao,

Xupu Xupu County () is a county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Huaihua Prefecturel-level City. Located on the west central Hunan, the county is bordered to the north by Yuanling County, to the northeast by Anhua County, ...

and Longhui counties and cities. As a county, it was founded at 1072 (

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) and now it is under jurisdiction of the Loudi City and subdivided into 7

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s and 19

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s, Shangmei is the county seat. The economy of Xinhua County is primarily agricultural, with 1.16 million of Xinhua County's population of 1.28 million working in agriculture. Other than agriculture, industries include machinery, electronics, ceramics, building materials, metallurgy, coal, chemical, food, paper, bamboo and

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. In recent years, Xinhua County's economy has grown quite a lot. In 2011, media attention was attracted by a construction project started by the county's government. In the hope of attracting tourists, the officials wanted to build a lavish temple (Xiongshan Si - ), diverting funds from more essential projects.湖南新化回应媒体曝“强扣水利款建旅游区”事宜
(Hunan's Xinhua ountyresponds to media's claims of the diversion of irrigation funds to the construction of a tourist area).

Climate

Notable people

He Jiankui He Jiankui (; ; born 1984) is a Chinese biophysics researcher who was an associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China. Earning his Ph.D. from Rice University ...

, the key figure in the genetically-edited human embryo

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was born here.

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External links

County-level divisions of Hunan {{Hunan-geo-stub