Pujiang County () is a

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. It is under the administration of the

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, the provincial capital.

Administrative divisions

Pujiang County has jurisdiction over two streets and six towns. Pujiang County People's Government is located in Government Street No. 31, Heshan Subdistrict. ;subdistrict: * Heshan Subdistrict (鹤山街道) * Shouan Subdistrict (寿安街道) ;Towns * Datang town (大塘镇) * Zhaoyanghu town (朝阳湖镇) * Xilai town (西来镇) * Daxing town (大兴镇) * Ganxi town (甘溪镇) * Chengjia town (成佳镇)

Geography

Pujiang County is in the southwest part of the

Sichuan Basin The Sichuan Basin (), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributar ...

and in the area from east longitude 103°19′to 103°41′ and from north latitude 30°05′ to 30°20′. It borders

Pengshan Pengshan District () is a district of the city of Meishan, Sichuan Province Sichuan is a Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mou ...

and

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in the east, Mingshan in the west, Danlin (

Danleng County Danling County () is a county of central Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Meishan City, with the seat located west of downtown Meishan and east of Ya'an Ya'an ( zh, s=雅安, p=Yǎ'ān, w=Ya-an) is a prefecture-lev ...

) in the south, and

Qionglai City Qionglai is a county-level city of Sichuan Province, Southwest China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu. It is located around from downtown Chengdu. The city is located on the western edge of the Sichuan Basi ...

in the north, stretching 37 kilometers from east to west and 27.5 kilometers from north to south.

History

In the 4th century BC the Qin Kingdom annexed the Shu Kingdom and established Puyang county in the Pushui area. In the

Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

, Puyang county was eliminated and affiliated with Linyi county. In 554 AD, it was built as Guangding county and in 601 AD the name was changed to Pujiang. The county was originally located in Lixudi in the north and during the

Hongwu Emperor The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328– 24 June 1398), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Ming, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, courtesy name Guorui, was the List of emperors of the Ming dynasty, founding emperor of the Ming dyna ...

reign, the emperor moved the county to what is now Heshan town under the jurisdiction of Qiongzhou, and later under

, then

Wenjiang Wenjiang District () is a suburban district of the City of Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It covers part of the city's western suburbs. Wenjiang District is bordered by Qingyang District to the east, Shuangliu District to the southeast, Chongzhou ...

. In 1983 it was put under the administration of the city of

Industrial area

The urban district, Pujiang Centralized Area for Industrial Development, is near to Chendu-Ya'an Highway, 68 kilometers from Chengdu. The area is the only processing center for agriculture by-products at the state level in Chengdu. The size is approximately 6 square kilometers and the shorter-term development area is 5.4 square kilometers. Its emphasis is on developing food drinking biology, medicine, light industry, manufacturing, and other high technology ventures.

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