Yanghu Subdistrict () is a
subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district.
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Yuelu District
Yuelu District () is one of six urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. It is the 4th most populous district (after Heshan, Dingcheng and Yueyanglou Districts) in Hunan. The district is b ...
in
Changsha
Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...
,
Hunan
Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...
, China. It is historically the territory of ''Yanghu Township'' (), ''Wangcheng County'' in 1951. The subdistrict covers an area of with a registered population of 24,896 (as of 2015). It has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.
History
The subdistrict is named after ''Yanghuyuan'' or ''Yanghu Cofferdam'' (), which is the present-day
Yanghu Wetland Park. The park is a
wetland
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in the
Jin River estuary area. Its ancient name was "''Waguankou''" (or "''Waguan Estuary''"; ). The Jin River is a first-level tributary of the
Xiang River
The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest tributary (after the Min River) in terms of surface runoff, the fifth-largest ...
and it is named after the tomb of ''Jin Shang'' ), a
scholar-official
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Scholar-officials were politicians and governmen ...
of
Chu State.
Yanghu Subdistrict was historically a part of ''Yanghu Township'' () in 1951 and a part of ''Pingtang People's Commune'' () of ''Wangcheng County'' () in 1958. In 1962, it was the territory of ''Pingtang Commune'' () of ''Pingtang District'' () in Changsha County. Wangcheng County was re-established from Changsha County in 1978 and it was part of Wangcheng County, ''Pingtang Commune'' was reorganized as a township in 1984 and ''Pingtang Township'' () was merged to ''Pingtang Town'' () in 1985. On June 15, 2008, Pingtang Town was assigned to the jurisdiction of Yuelu District from Wangcheng County.
On August 3, 2012, the town of Pingtang was reorganized as
Pingtang Subdistrict. On January 18, 2013, the subdistrict of Yanghu was established from four villages of ''Yanghu'' (), ''Lianshan'' (), ''Lantian'' () and ''Shantang'' () and three communities of ''Pingtang'' (), ''Baimiaozi'' () and ''Xinsheng'' () of
Pingtang Subdistrict.
Subdivisions
When Yanghu Subdistrict was founded in 2013, it had four villages and three communities. As a new round of the ''Amalgamation of Village-level Divisions'' () in 2016, ''Shantang Community'' was established by combining ''Shantang Village'' and ''Xiangping Community'' (formerly ''Pingtang Community'').
[Shantang Community held an unveiling ceremony on 16 April 2016 / se]
changsha.gov (2016-04-18)
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/ref> The subdistrict has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.
References
External links
Official Website （Chinese / 中文）
{{Divisions of Yuelu District, Changsha
Yuelu District
Subdistricts of Changsha