Chenggong District () is one of seven

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of the

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, the capital of

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, situated on east bank of the

Dian Lake Dian Lake (), also known as Dianchi, Dianchi Lake, Lake Dian and Kunming Lake, is a fault lake located on the Puduhe- Xishan fault in Kunming, Yunnan, China at 24°23′–26°22′ N, 102°10′–103°40′ E. Its nickname is the "Sparkling ...

. The name Chenggong is a transliteration of the word in Yi language for a basin where rice is grown.

Geography

Chenggong is located in the southeast of Kunming and borders

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to the east,

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and Jinning District to the south, Xishan District to the west and

Guandu District Guandu District () is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, Southwest China. It is in the southeast of Kunming and borders Yiliang County, Kunming Yiliang County () is a county, under th ...

to the north.

History

It was first established in 1275. In 1961 it came under jurisdiction of Kunming city. In 2003 Chenggong was designated as a development zone of Kunming. The district was created from the dissolution of the former ''Chenggong County'' () by the

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on May 20, 2011. Chenggong is the chief zone for Kunming, the downtown of which is almost a 20-minute drive away. It is the site of the new Kunming City Hall, and new campuses for

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and

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. Early in the district's redevelopment, much of the newly constructed housing in Chenggong was unoccupied and was reportedly one of the largest ghost towns in Asia in 2012, in a similar situation to

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and the

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. It has slowly become occupied, however, in more recent years as Central Kunming has become overcrowded. Some Government departments moved to Chenggong in 2012, and a subway line connecting Chenggong to the city centre opened in 2013. By 2017, the district had become home to many more offices and residents with more redevelopment still on the horizon.

Administrative divisions

Chenggong District is divided into ten subdistricts. ;Subdistricts : Longcheng (), Luolong (), Dounan (), Wulong (), Wujiaying (), Yuhua (), Qidian (), Luoyang (), Dayu () and Majinpu ()

Climate

Economy

Chenggong Industrial Park is among the 30 key industrial parks in Yunnan province, with a total planned area of 66.46 km². Dounan, near Chenggong, has the largest flower market in China. The local flower-growing business started in the 1980s, and in 2013 Dounan now supplied more than half of China's

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Transport

Kunming Changshui International Airport Kunming Changshui International Airport is an international airport serving Kunming, the capital of Southwestern China’s Yunnan province. The airport is located northeast of the city center in a graded mountainous area about above sea lev ...

China National Highway 213 China National Highway 213 (G213) runs from Ceke, Inner Mongolia, to Mohan, on the border with Laos, in Yunnan. It is in length and runs via Chengdu, Sichuan and Kunming, Yunnan. Before the 2013 Highway Planning, the route started in Lanzhou, ...

Line 1 (Kunming Metro) Line 1 of Kunming Metro () is a rapid transit line connecting Chenggong District with Kunming's urban center. The line is long with 22 stations (excluding Line 2) with as the northern terminal, and as the southern terminal of the main line, a ...

Kunming South railway station Kunming South railway station is the main high-speed rail station of the Kunming metropolitan area. It is the western terminus of the Nanning–Kunming High-Speed Railway and the Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway. The station is located in t ...

References

External links

Official government site

Area Code and Postal Code in Yunnan Province

Chenggong, one of the largest new ghost town in Asia
{{Yunnan County-level divisions of Kunming