Yinghai Area (), or Yinghai Town, is an
area
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and a town of
Daxing District
Daxing District () is a district of Beijing, covering the southern suburbs of the city. It borders the Beijing districts of Tongzhou to the east/northeast, Fangshan to the west, Fengtai to the northwest, Chaoyang to the northeast, and the Hebe ...
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Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
, located between the
5th and
6th Ring Roads. As of 2020, it has 102,463 inhabitants under its administration.
In 1902, Qing government established wasteland cultivation program within the region. The settlement here was named Yinghaizhuang, and it was taken from a combination of Yingzhou, the place where settlers came from; and Haizili, the name of this region at the time. Later it was shorten to Yinghai.
History
Administrative divisions
At the end of 2021, Yinghai Area consisted of 20 subdivisions, in which 19 were
residential communities, and 1 was an industrial area:
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Beijing
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divi ...
References
Daxing District
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