Yu County, also known by its

Chinese Chinese may refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China. **'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...

name Yuxian, is a

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in the east of

Shanxi Province Shanxi; formerly romanised as Shansi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. Its one-character abbreviation is ( ...

, China. It is under the administration of the

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Yangquan Yangquan ( zh, s=阳泉 , t=陽泉 , p=Yángquán ) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. Known as "Rippling Spring" in ancient times, it lies on the eastern e ...

and occupies its northern majority.

Name

Yu County's name refers to its cup-like shape.

History

Yu County was settled by the

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, when it formed an independent kingdom.

Climate

Economy

It is best known for its production of

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and

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal i ...

. In 2005, the county's

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was approximately 3.0 billion , with 600

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in taxes. The GDP

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was equal to 3,646 yuan

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for

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and the total retail sales of consumer goods has reached 970

yuan. Furthermore, there is 100

kg of

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output and 10.71

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s of

production.

Transportation

The county is served by

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on the

Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway The Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway, or the Shitai passenger railway () is a high-speed railway operated by China Railway High-speed, running from Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan, respectively the provincial capitals of Hebei and Shanxi ...

Tourist attraction

* ()

Geographical facts

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: *

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: *

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from

Taiyuan Taiyuan; Mandarin pronunciation: (Jin Chinese, Taiyuan Jin: /tʰai˦˥ ye˩˩/) is the capital of Shanxi, China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. It is an industrial base foc ...

References

External links

Official Site
County-level divisions of Shanxi Yangquan {{Shanxi-geo-stub