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The Hui'an Railway Station, on the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway, is located about northwest of Hui'an's county seat, and is connected to it by a new divided highway (that passes through the Dalingtou Tunnel []), with frequent local bus service. Although a lot fewer trains stop at Hui'an than at major stations such as Quanzhou Railway Station, Quanzhou, there is a train in each direction every hour or two during the day. There is no night service.
The freight-only
county
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under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city
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of Quanzhou
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, Fujian
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, People's Republic of China
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. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian
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coast, between Quanzhou
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and Meizhou Bay. The county has a population of 921,794, as of late 2003, with a non-agricultural population of 289,396 people. The dialect is Hui'an dialect, related to Hokkien
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.
Administrative divisions
The county is divided into fifteentowns
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and one ethnic township. The only township in the county is Baiqi Hui Ethnic Township.
''Towns'':
* (), the county seat (the location marked on most maps as "Hui'an")
* Luòyáng (),
*Chongwu
Chongwu Town () is a township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China.
Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peninsula jutting into Taiwan Strait. The town's historical ...
(),
* Dongyuan (),
* Zhangban (),
* Dongling (),
* Wangchuan (),
* Tuzhai (),
* Luóyáng (),
* Huangtang (),
* Shanxia (),
* Jingfeng (),
* Dongqiao (),
* Zishan (),
* Xiaozuo ()
Economy
Hui'an people have long been engaged in quarrying local granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
and using it for construction purposes. Traditional houses and other structures in the region are constructed from long narrow blocks of granite.
These days, Hui'an's stone workers have built on their experience by becoming manufacturers of stone statuary for China's temples, public places, businesses, and private residences. These days, the road (Huichong Highway) between the Hui'an County seat and the town of Chongwu
Chongwu Town () is a township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China.
Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peninsula jutting into Taiwan Strait. The town's historical ...
is practically lined up with production plants and showrooms of stone-working companies, statues of all kinds displayed in front of them.
Footwear manufacturing is developed in a number of towns in the western part of the county, closer to Quanzhou.
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Transportation
The Hui'an Railway Station, on the Fuzhou-Xiamen Railway, is located about northwest of Hui'an's county seat, and is connected to it by a new divided highway (that passes through the Dalingtou Tunnel []), with frequent local bus service. Although a lot fewer trains stop at Hui'an than at major stations such as Quanzhou Railway Station, Quanzhou, there is a train in each direction every hour or two during the day. There is no night service.
The freight-only Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo Railway
The Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo railway (), also known as the Zhangquanxiao railway, is a regional railway in Fujian Province, China. The line runs eastward from Zhangping, Longyan in the interior, to Quanzhou, on the coast, and terminates ...
runs south of the county seat.
Climate
References
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