Baixiang County () is a county in the southwest of
Hebei
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...
province, China. It is under the administration of the
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
During the Republican era, many of China ...
of
Xingtai
Xingtai (), formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has a total area of and administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 12 counties. At the 2020 censu ...
, with a population of 193,777 (2014) residing in an area of . It lies generally to the east of
G4 Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway and
China National Highway 107
China's National Highway 107 runs from Beijing to Hong Kong SAR via Wuhan. It runs to approximately 2,698 km, and, on a map, runs broadly on a straight line from Beijing to Shenzhen. In 2013, under a new 2013-2030 plan by the National Devel ...
. The Baixiang County is known as being the former capital of the
state of Xiang () of the Southern Huns state
Later Zhao, described in the
Fang Xuanling Book of Jin
The ''Book of Jin'' is an official Chinese historical text covering the history of the Jin dynasty from 266 to 420. It was compiled in 648 by a number of officials commissioned by the imperial court of the Tang dynasty, with chancellor Fang ...
Chapter 104, was located in the territory of the county. It was a place of the 351 CE
Battle of Xiangguo between
Ran Min
Ran Min (; died 352), also known as Shi Min (石閔), posthumously honored by the Former Yan as Heavenly King Wudao of (Ran) Wei ((冉)魏武悼天王), courtesy name Yongzeng (永曾), nickname Jinu (棘奴), was a military leader during the er ...
's army and
Shi Zhi of
Later Zhao. After the battle, the Later Zhao general
Liu Xian () killed Shi Zhi in Xiangguo, the Xiangguo city was burned, and its population moved to
Yecheng.
Administrative divisions
The county administers 3 towns and 3 townships.
Towns
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Baixiang ()
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Guchengdian ()
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Xiwang ()
Townships
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Wangjiazhuang Township ()
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Neibu Township ()
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Longhua Township ()
Climate
References
External links
County-level divisions of Hebei
Xingtai
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