Genhe (Gegengol) ( mn, (Гэгээнгол хот) Gegen Gôûl Hôt; ), formerly Ergun Left Banner or Ergun Zuoqi (), is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

in the far northeast of

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

, under the administration of

Hulunbuir Hulunbuir or Hulun Buir ( mn, , ''Kölün buyir'', Mongolian Cyrillic: Хөлөнбуйр, ''Khölönbuir''; zh, s=呼伦贝尔, ''Hūlúnbèi'ěr'') is a region that is governed as a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China ...

City. The city spans an area of , and has a total population of 130,722 as of 2019.

Geography and climate

Genhe has a

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscil ...

-influenced

subarctic climate The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, g ...

( Köppen ''Dwc''), making it one of the coldest locations nationally, with an annual mean temperature of . Winters are long, severely cold, and very dry in terms of total precipitation, while summers are short and warm; the normal monthly mean temperature ranges from in January to in July. Over two-thirds of the annual precipitation of is distributed from June through August. Genhe recorded a temperature of on 31 December 2009. This is the lowest temperature to have ever been recorded in China.

Administrative divisions

Genhe is divided into four subdistricts, four

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, and one

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Subdistricts

The city's four subdistricts are Hedong Subdistrict, , , and Haolibao Subdistrict.

Towns

The city's four towns are , , , and .

Ethnic Townships

The city's sole ethnic township is the Aoluguya Evenk Ethnic Township.

Demographics

As of 2019, Genhe is home to 130,722 inhabitants, the 72nd most of Inner Mongolia's 103

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s. As of 2017, 64,400 of Genhe's residents lived in urban areas.

Economy

Genhe's

gross domestic product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is of ...

in 2019 totaled 3,200,870,000

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(RMB), growing at a rate of 2.0% over 2018. Of this, 16.87% came from the city's

primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy ...

, 18.04% came from the city's

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, and 65.09% came from the city's tertiary sector. Consumer retail sales in Genhe for 2019 totaled 2,305,160,000 RMB. Households in Genhe earned, on average, 28,375 RMB in disposable income in 2019. Genhe reported 71,030,000 RMB in public budget revenue in 2019, the lowest of Inner Mongolia's 103

s. As of 2019, there are 119,000 mobile phone subscriptions and 29,200 internet subscriptions in Genhe.

Agriculture

In 2019, Genhe produced 5,000 tons of grain, ranking 86th among the 96 county-level divisions in Inner Mongolia which reported this statistic. The city also produced 1,167 tons of meat in 2019, ranking 97th among the Inner Mongolia's 103 county-level divisions.

Education

As of 2019, Genhe has seven

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s and nine

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

Healthcare

Genhe's medical institutions have 477 beds staffed by 942 personnel, as of 2019.

Culture

A small number of ethnic Evenk reindeer herders remain in the city's Aoluguya Evenk Ethnic Township.

Transportation

of highway run through Genhe as of 2019.

References

{{Authority control County-level divisions of Inner Mongolia Hulunbuir