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Ankang
Ankang ( zh , c = 安康 , p = Ānkāng ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. It covers an area of and consists Xunyang, a county-level city, one urban district, and eight counties. Its total population was 2,493,436 people according to the 2020 Chinese census, with 1,244,784 living in urban areas. History The settlement of Ankang dates to the Stone Age, and its recorded history dates back more than 3000 years. The settlement was originally known as Xicheng. Ankang County was established in 1st Taikang year of the Western Jin Dynasty It later formed part of the Eastern Liang Prefecture, which was reorganized into the Jin Prefecture in the 3rd Feidi year of the Western Wei Under the Sui, this was renamed Xicheng Commandery ( zh, labels=no , c= , p=Xīchéngjùn) and, under the Tang, Ankang Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanbin District
Hanbin District () is a district of the City of Ankang in Shaanxi Province, China and the seat of the city's government. It has a population of 886,393 and an area of 3,645.91 km2. With forests covering 68.8% of its land, the district abounds in natural resources and remains a popular destination of tourism in Shaanxi. Between the Qinling and the Daba Mountains, Hanbin District is centrally located in Ankang, bordering the counties Ningshan County, Ningshan, Hanyin County, Hanyin, and Ziyang County, Ziyang on the west, Langao County, Langao and Pingli County, Pingli on the south, Xunyang County, Xunyang on the east, and Zhen'an County, Zhen'an on the north. Three expressways (G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway, G65, G7011 Shiyan–Tianshui Expressway, G7011, and G1213 Bei'an–Mohe Expressway, G4213), three railways (Yangpingguan–Ankang railway, Yangpingguan-Ankang, Xiangyang–Chongqing railway, Xiangyang-Chongqing, Xi'an–Ankang railway, Xi'an-Ankang) and an Ankang Fuqiang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankang County
Ankang ( zh , c = 安康 , p = Ānkāng ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. It covers an area of and consists Xunyang, a county-level city, one urban district, and eight counties. Its total population was 2,493,436 people according to the 2020 Chinese census, with 1,244,784 living in urban areas. History The settlement of Ankang dates to the Stone Age, and its recorded history dates back more than 3000 years. The settlement was originally known as Xicheng. Ankang County was established in 1st Taikang year of the Western Jin Dynasty It later formed part of the Eastern Liang Prefecture, which was reorganized into the Jin Prefecture in the 3rd Feidi year of the Western Wei Under the Sui, this was renamed Xicheng Commandery ( zh, labels=no , c= , p=Xīchéngjùn) and, under the Tang, Ankang Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xunyang, Shaanxi
Xunyang (; formerly written as () until 1964) is a county-level city in the south of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Hubei province to the northeast and southeast. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ankang. Its administrative seat is in the town of . The county covers an area of , and has a population of 450,122 as of 2019. History During the Spring and Autumn period, the area of present-day Xunyang County belonged to the State of Chu. In the Warring States period, the area was incorporated as . In 312 BCE, Xunyang County was taken by the State of Qin following the . Later, the area became part of the Han Dynasty, where it was placed under the Hanzhong Commandery. During the Qing Dynasty, the area belonged to the . From 1914 to 1928, the area belonged to . From 1928 to 1949, the area was directly administered by Shaanxi Province. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the county has belonged to Ankang. In 1964, its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi covers an area of over with about 37 million people, the 16th-largest in China. Xi'anwhich includes the sites of the former capitals Fenghao and Chang'anis the provincial capital and largest city in Northwest China and also one of the oldest cities in China and the oldest of the Historical capitals of China, Four Ancient Capitals, being the capital for the Western Zhou, Western Han, Sima Jin, Jin, Sui dynasty, Sui and Tang dynasty, Tang List of Chinese dynasties, dynasties. Xianyang, which served as the capital of the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC), is just north across the Wei River. The other Prefectures of China, prefecture-level prefecture-level city, cities into which the province is divided are Ankang, Baoji, Hanzho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Shaanxi
Shaannan () or Southern Shaanxi refers to the portion of China's Shaanxi province south of the Qinling Mountains. Its name derives from the province's abbreviation "Shaan" () combined with the word "Nan" (, lit. "south"), its geographical location within the province. In the Yuan Dynasty, the area began to be merged with what is the Guanzhong Plain to form Shaanxi province. The Qinling Mountains, as a geographic barrier, has also created major differences in climate, cultural traditions and dialects between Shaannan and the other parts of Shaanxi, and thus there is some similarity between Shaannan and Sichuan. Geography The region is mountainous, and was historically part of the Ba–Shu region. It is geographically considered part of the Sichuan Basin's northern fringe and the three prefectural cities in the Shaannan region are mainly based along the valleys and drainage basins of the Han River's tributaries, all part of the Yangtze river system. The only exception is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Prefecture (Shaanxi)
Jin Prefecture, also known by its Chinese name Jinzhou, was a prefecture of imperial China. Its seat—also known as Jinzhou—was at Xicheng (modern Ankang, Shaanxi). History Jin was created from Eastern Liang Prefecture (, ''Dōngliángzhōu'') in AD 554 under the Western Wei list of Chinese dynasties, Dynasty. Its name—the "gold" or "golden" zhou (administrative subdivision), prefecture—derives from the placer deposits along the Yue River, Yue or Moon River still exploited to this day.. Under the Sui dynasty, Sui, it was renamed Xicheng Commandery (, ''Xīchéngjùn''). Under the Tang dynasty, Tang, it was renamed Ankang Commandery (, ''Ānkāngjùn''). It held 53,029 people in 14,091 households in 639 and 57,929 people in the same number of households in 742. It was abolished again under the Ming dynasty, Ming in 1583. Geography Jin Commandery in the Tang dynasty lay around modern Ankang, Shaanxi. It probably includes parts of modern Ankang Ankang ( zh , c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County-level City
A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local ordinance, local law and are usually governed by Administrative divisions of China#Prefectural level (2nd), prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by Administrative divisions of China#Provincial level (1st), province-level divisions. A county-level city is a "city" () and "county" () that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such, it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity, and a county, which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated Counties of China, counties. County-level cities are not "city, cities" in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Licence Plates Of The People's Republic Of China
Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes. The plates are issued by the local traffic management offices, which are sub-branches of local public security bureaus, under the rules of the Ministry of Public Security. Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are special administrative regions of China, issue their own licence plates, a legacy of when they were under British and Portuguese administration. Vehicles from Hong Kong and Macau are required to apply for licence plates, usually from Guangdong province, to travel on roads in mainland China. Vehicles from mainland China have to apply for Hong Kong licence plates or Macau licence plates to enter those territories. The font used are in the Heiti (Traditional: 黑體, Simplified: 黑体) style. History 1986-series plate In July 1986, the 1986-series Plates were put into use. The layout and format for them are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistory, prehistoric period during which Rock (geology), stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended between 4000 Anno Domini, BC and 2000 BC, with the advent of metalworking. It therefore represents nearly 99.3% of human history. Though some simple metalworking of malleable metals, particularly the use of Goldsmith, gold and Coppersmith, copper for purposes of ornamentation, was known in the Stone Age, it is the melting and smelting of copper that marks the end of the Stone Age. In Western Asia, this occurred by about 3000 BC, when bronze became widespread. The term Bronze Age is used to describe the period that followed the Stone Age, as well as to describe cultures that had developed techniques and technologies for working copper alloys (bronze: originally copper and arsenic, later copper and tin) into tools, supplanting ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Western Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties, it ruled the western part of northern China from 535 to 557. As with the Northern Wei dynasty that preceded it, the ruling family of the Western Wei were members of the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei. History After the Xianbei general Yuwen Tai killed the Northern Wei emperor Yuan Xiu, he installed Yuan Baoju as emperor of Western Wei while Yuwen Tai would remain as the virtual ruler. Although smaller than the Eastern Wei in territory and population, Western Wei was able to withstand the attacks from the eastern empire, most notably at the Battle of Shayuan in 537. Due to its better economical conditions, Western Wei was even able to conquer the whole western part of the Liang empire in the south and occupied the territory of modern Sichuan. In 557 Yuwen Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xicheng Commandery
Xicheng () is a district of the city of Beijing. Its cover the western half of the old city (largely inside the 2nd Ring Road; the eastern half is Dongcheng District), and has 1,106,214 inhabitants (2020 Census). Its postal code is 100032. Xicheng is subdivided into 15 subdistricts of the city proper of Beijing. The former Xuanwu District was merged into Xicheng in July 2010. The Xidan commercial district, Beijing Financial Street, Beihai Park, Jingshan Park, Shichahai, and Zhongnanhai are all within its jurisdiction. The popular Houhai bar area is also in Xicheng Precinct. Before the 1911 Revolution, most royalty and aristocrats resided in the precinct. The oldest Catholic church in Beijing, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is located in Xicheng. Administrative divisions There are 15 subdistricts in the district: Economy COSCO has its headquarters in the Ocean Plaza building in Xicheng. The Xinhua News Agency has its headquarters in the Dacheng Plaza (大 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
