Longxi is a

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under the administration of the

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

Dingxi Dingxi (), also known as Longyou () is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Gansu province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,524,097 inhabitants, of which 422,383 lived in the built-up (or metro) area ...

in the southeast of

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

Province, China.

Administration

Longxi has twelve

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and five

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. The county seat is Gongchang. ;Towns: ;Towns upgraded to townships: *Kezhai () *Shuangquan () *Quanjiawan () ;Townships:

Climate

Economy

The Longxi economy is mainly based on agriculture, cultivation of ingredients used in

Traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action ...

, and production of aluminium. ''

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'' and ''

Codonopsis ''Codonopsis'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. As currently recognized, ''Codonopsis'' includes two other groups sometimes separated as distinct genera, i.e. ''Campanumoea'' and ''Leptocodon.'' The enlarged genus ''Codo ...

'', among other medicinal plants, are grown and processed for traditional medicine in the Longxi region.

Tourism

* Renshou Mountain Forest Park () *

Lijia Long palace __NOTOC__ Lijia may refer to: Places in China Towns *Lijia, Jiangsu, in Changzhou, Jiangsu *Lijia, Heishan County, in Heishan County, Liaoning *Lijia, Anyue County, Sichuan *Lijia, Guangyuan, Sichuan *Lijia, Linshui County, Sichuan *Lijia, Nanchong ...

() *

Baochang building Baochang may refer to: Towns * Baochang, Taibus Banner (宝昌镇), Inner Mongolia * Baochang, Haimen (包场镇), in Haimen City, Jiangsu People *Baochang (monk) Baochang (寶唱; Bǎochàng) (466-518? CE) was a Buddhist monk, librarian, an ...

() *

Wenfeng tower Wenfeng District () is a district in Anyang, Henan province, China. Administrative divisions As of 2021, this district is divided to 12 subdistricts, 1 town and 1 township. ;Subdistricts ;Towns * Baoliansi Town () ;Townships * Gaozhuang Township ...

() * Wenfeng herbal medicine market ()

External links

Longxi County Government website

References

County-level divisions of Gansu Dingxi {{Gansu-geo-stub