Nada Town () is a township under

Danzhou Danzhou ( zh, t=儋州 , p=Dānzhōu) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a ...

city,

Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...

province, China. Nada was established more than 400 years ago, and has been the administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou (formerly Dan County) since 1958. It has a population of 220,000 as of 2010.

Location

Nada is located in northwestern Hainan, from the provincial capital

Haikou Haikou; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanized as Hoihow is the capital city, capital and most populous city of the Chinese province of Hainan. Haikou city is situated on the northern coast of Hainan, by the mouth of the Nandu River. ...

city, and from

Sanya Sanya; Chinese postal romanization, also spelled Samah is the southernmost city on Hainan Island, and one of the four prefecture-level cities of Hainan, Hainan Province in Southeast China, South China. According to the Sixth National Populati ...

by expressway. It covers a total area of , with a built-up area of .

History

Nada was founded more than 400 years ago with the merger of the villages of Nanian () and Datong (). The name Nada was formed from the first syllables of the two villages. During the early 1950s, Nada was part of the seventh district of Dan County (Danxian). Nada County was established in May 1957, with Nada Town as its seat. In December 1958, Nada County was merged into Dan County, but the seat of Dan County was moved from Xinzhou to Nada Town. The town was called Nada Commune from 1958 to 1981, and its outskirts were split off as Qianjin Commune (later Qianjin District) in 1977, but merged back into Nada in 1987. American Christian missionaries called the town Nodoa, and established a station there in 1888.

Administrative divisions

As of 2013, Nada has 11 residential communities (), 21 villages, and 8 farms under its administration.

Demographics

As of the 2010 National Census, Nada has a population of 220,000. Its residents speak a variety of languages and dialects, including

Danzhou dialect The Danzhou dialect (), locally known as Xianghua (), is a Chinese variety of uncertain affiliation spoken in the area of Danzhou in northwestern Hainan, China. It was classified as Yue in the ''Language Atlas of China'', but in more recent wo ...

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China ...

Hainanese Hainanese ( Hainan Romanised: ''Hái-nâm-oe'', Hainanese Pinyin: ''Hhai3 nam2 ue1'', ), also known as Qiongwen (), Qiongyu () or Hainan Min () is a group of Min Chinese varieties spoken in the far southern Chinese island province of Hain ...

, Hlai,

Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

, and

Lingao Língāo County (formerly romanised as Limko or Limkao) is an administrative district in Hainan province, China. It is one of the 4 counties of Hainan. Its postal code is 571800, and in 1999, its population was 399,057 people, who mainly speak t ...

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

is also widely spoken.

Economy

In 2013, Nada's

GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performance o ...

grew by 23.3% to 5.8 billion yuan, including 0.5 billion from the

primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in d ...

, 2.33 billion from the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

, and 2.96 billion from the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...

(service). The per capita

disposable income Disposable income is total personal income minus current taxes on income. In national accounting, personal income minus personal current taxes equals disposable personal income or household disposable income. Subtracting personal outlays ( ...

for urban residents was 22,310 yuan.

Transportation

The area will be served by

Danzhou Airport Danzhou Airport () is an under-construction airport in approximately 25 km northeast of Nada, Danzhou, Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan ...

, an under-construction airport in approximately 25 km northeast of Nada. It will be international-class, built to handle the increasing number of tourists visiting the area.

References

External links

* {{Danzhou Township-level divisions of Hainan Danzhou