Yicheng County () is a county in 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 China ...

Linfen Linfen is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shanxi province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west. It is situated along the banks of the Fen River. It has an area of and according to the 2020 Census, a population of 3,976, ...

, in the south of

Shanxi Province Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level ...

, China. The county spans an area of , and is home to 323,517 people as of 2019.

Geography

Yicheng County is located in southern

, straddling both sides of the . The county's elevation ranges from 473 to 1,556 meters in height.

Climate

Government

Administrative divisions

Yicheng County has jurisdiction over 6

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and 4

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, which are further divided into 151 administrative villages. Yicheng's six towns are (), Nanliang (), (), (), (), and (). Yicheng's four townships are (), (), (), and (). The county's government is seated in Tangxing.

County budget

In 2019, the county government's fiscal revenue was 331.96 million yuan, of which, 211.66 million yuan came from tax revenue.

Demographics

As of 2019, the county's permanent population was 323,517, of which 137,500 were urban residents. In 2019, the county recorded a

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of 8.75 per 1,000, and a

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of 5.9 per 1,000, resulting in a natural growth rate of 2.85 per 1,000.

Economy

Yicheng reported a

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of 7.14 billion yuan in 2019, a 4.1% increase from 2018, but relatively unchanged from its 2015 GDP of 7.07 billion yuan. Retail sales totaled 3.82 billion yuan the same year. The county has an average disposable income of 19,188 yuan, which is 32,404 yuan among urban residents and 12,796 yuan among rural residents.

Agriculture

Yicheng County has 40,173 hectares of cropland, as of 2019, of which, 38,825 hectares were devoted to grain production, mostly corn and

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, producing 186,701 tons of grain.

Industry

Industrial enterprises in Yicheng County produced 3.531 million tons of raw

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, 344,000 tons of pig iron, and 36.21 million kWh of

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in 2019. The county primarily relies on coal for electricity production, but other sources of power generation are becoming more prominent.

Transportation

* Houma–Yueshan Railway

References

{{authority control County-level divisions of Shanxi