Changqingqiao is a town of
Ningxian,
Pingliang
Pingliang ( zh, s=平凉 , t=平涼 , p=Píngliàng , l="Pacify Liang") is a inner land prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the south and east and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to the north. T ...
,
Gansu
Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...
,
China
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. It is located in the southwest corner of Ningxian on the north bank of the
Jing river
The Jing River () or Jing He (Pinyin: ''Jīng Hé''), also called Jing Shui (), is a tributary of the Wei River (), which in turn is the largest tributary of the Yellow River.
The Jing River flows for , with a basin area of . The river's flow ...
.
Originally a small farming village, in the 1970s it was industrialized thanks to the discovery of oil. The town is the largest in Ningxian except for the county seat itself, and forms the southern gateway to the county through the
G22 Qingdao–Lanzhou Expressway
The Qingdao–Lanzhou Expressway (), designated as G22 and commonly referred to as the Qinglan Expressway () is an expressway that connects the cities of Qingdao, Shandong, China, and Lanzhou, Gansu. It is in length.
This expressway is someti ...
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China National Highway 224
China National Highway 224 () runs from Haikou in Hainan to Sanya, Hainan
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and the
Xi'an–Pingliang railway. It was established as a town in 1985.
References
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Township-level divisions of Gansu