Fenyang (), formerly as Fenyang County () before 1996, is a

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 or ...

under the administration of

Lüliang Lüliang ( zh, s=吕梁 , t=呂梁 , p=Lǚliáng), also spelled as Lvliang or Lyuliang, is a prefecture-level city in western Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It borders Shaanxi province across the Yellow River to the west, Jinzhong ...

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...

, in

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

Province, China. Txu-oclc-10552568-nj49-11

Fenyang is located in the wide valley of the

Fen River The Fen River drains the center of Shanxi Province, China. It originates in the Guancen Mountains of Ningwu County in northeast Shanxi, flows southeast into the basin of Taiyuan, and then south through the central valley of Shanxi before turni ...

, some 20-plus kilometers west of the actual river. Fenyang was the birthplace of

Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke ( zh, s=贾樟柯, born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival, dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media Co ...

, who filmed 1997 '' Xiao Wu'' there. '' Platform'' is set from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s in and around Fenyang. Subsequently, '' Mountains May Depart'' features scenes set in Fenyang in 1999 and 2014. Fengyang is also the birthplace of Guo Qinglan (), the widow of Dwarkanath Kotnis. Fenyang has a strong reputation within Shanxi for the production of Fenjiu (), a type of Baijiu known for its superior flavor.

Climate

Transportation

* G20 Qingdao–Yinchuan Expressway * Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway

External links

Fenyang government website
(in Chinese)

Notes

Cities in Shanxi County-level divisions of Shanxi {{Shanxi-geo-stub