Hongxing or Hongxingzhen () is a town situated in the
Mingshan County of
Sichuan
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,
China
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. It is under the jurisdiction of
Ya'an
Ya'an ( zh, s=雅安, p=Yǎ'ān, w=Ya-an) is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province, China, located just below the Tibetan Plateau. The city is home to Sichuan Agricultural University, the only Project 211, 211 Project ...
prefecture-level city. It is located along
China National Highway 318
China National Highway 318 (G318) is a trunk road in China that runs east-west from Shanghai in East China to Zhangmu on the China-Nepal border. It is the longest of the China National Highways at in length and runs west from Huangpu District ...
(Route G5), about by road southwest of the town of
Pujian and by road northeast of Ya'an.
It has an area of and as of 2004 had a population of 11,514 people. and 12,375.1 acres of arable land.
With an average elevation of 679 metres, it has an average temperature of 15.5 degrees Celsius and average annual rainfall of 1300 mm.
Principal activities include corn, wheat, tea, and melon production, pig farming and fishing.
Administrative divisions
The township-level division contains the following villages:
*Taiping Village (太坪村)
*Yuba Village (余坝村)
*Luowan Village (罗湾村)
*Baiqiang Village (白墙村)
*Shangma Village (上马村)
*Gongdian Village (龚店村)
*Tianwang Village (天王村)
*Huaguang Village (华光村)
References
Towns in Sichuan
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