Hongsibu District
红寺堡区 Hongsipu District | |
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Coordinates: 37°19′01″N 106°06′04″E / 37.317°N 106.101°E | |
Country | China |
Region | Ningxia |
Prefecture-level city | Wuzhong |
Established | 2009 |
Seat | Hongsibu Town |
Government | |
• Secretary | Ding Jiancheng (丁建成) |
• Governor | Wang Zhongqiang (王忠强) [1] |
Area | |
• District | 3,523.09 km2 (1,360.27 sq mi) |
Highest elevation | 1,450 m (4,760 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 1,240 m (4,070 ft) |
Population (2020 Census)
[3] | |
• District | 197,604 |
• Density | 56/km2 (150/sq mi) |
• Urban | 79,198 |
• Rural | 118,406 |
Time zone | UTC+8 ( China Standard) |
Postal code | 751900 |
Area code | 0953 |
Website | Official website |
Hongsibu District ( simplified Chinese: 红寺堡区; traditional Chinese: 紅寺堡區; pinyin: Hóngsìbǔ Qū (official), Hóngsìpǔ Qū (local) [4]) is a district within the prefecture-level city of Wuzhong in the autonomous region of Ningxia, China.
Hongsibu is located 127 kilometres (79 mi) south of the regional capital Yinchuan. [5] It covers an area of 3,523.09 square kilometres (1,360.27 sq mi) [2] in a basin bounded by Mount Niushou (牛首山, 1,774 m (5,820 ft)) in the north, Mount Yantong (烟筒山, 1,715 m (5,627 ft)) in the west and Mount Luo (罗山, 2,624 m (8,609 ft)) in the east; [6] the last has been designated a National Nature Reserve. [7] The terrain is higher in the south than the north and the elevation generally ranges between 1240 and 1450 m above sea level. [5]
Hongsibu first appears as a place name during the Ming dynasty. [5]
Beginning in 1998, the area now comprising the district was chosen as a resettlement location for over 200,000 people from drought-stricken areas of southern Ningxia. [8] [9] In the most ambitious scheme of its kind in China, [10] water was diverted from the Yellow River to create and irrigate 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) of new agricultural land. [5] The administrative district was established in 2009. [11]
Hongsibu District is divided into 1 subdistrict, 2 towns and 3 townships: [12] Xinmin Subdistrict (新民街道), Hongsibu Town (红寺堡镇), Taiyangshan Town (太阳山镇), Xinzhuangji Township (新庄集乡), Dahe Township (大河乡) and Liuquan Township (柳泉乡), [13] the last of which was created in 2014 from the western part of Xinzhuangji. [14]
At the end of 2020 the population of Hongsibu District was 197,604, of which 40.1% lived in urban areas. [3] The district recorded a population of 165,016 in the 2010 national census [15] It was 51,875 in the 2000 census. [14] 61% of the population is Hui. [9]
Hongsibu District's gross domestic product was estimated at CN¥1.56 billion in 2015. [16]
The Dingbian–Wuwei, Fuzhou–Yinchuan, and Gunquan-Hongsibu (formerly S19, now signed as G6) expressways run through the northern part of the district, as does the Taiyuan–Zhongwei–Yinchuan Railway. [5] The Hongsibu Solar Park is located in the district.
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