Huating () 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 ...
, formerly Huating County, in the east of
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 ...
province, China, bordering
Ningxia
Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was later separated from Gansu in 1958 and reconstituted as an autonomous ...
to the northwest. It is under the administration of the
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 ...
city. Its postal code is 744100, and in 1999, its population was 176,941 people.
Huating was first established in 605 CE. It is named after Huajian Mountain (). In 2018, Huating county was upgraded to Huating county-level city.
Huating has long been a center of coal mining and porcelain production in Gansu. In 2006, it produced over 14 million tons of coal. The agriculture output of Huating is centered around walnuts, medicinal plants, in particular
Ligusticum striatum, and beef cattle.
In July 2010, 13 people died in Huating County in a
landslide
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triggered by
heavy rains. Two people survived.
Administrative divisions
Huating City is divided to 1 subdistrict, 7 towns, 3 townships and 1 others.
;Subdistricts
* Donghua Subdistrict ()
;Towns
;Townships
* Shenyu Township ()
* Shanzhai Township ()
* Yanxia Township ()
;Others
* Shibaozi Development Zone Management Committee ()
Climate
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Gansu
Gansu, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions
These administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Repub ...
References
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Huating County
Pingliang
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