Huining County () is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in the east of Gansu Province, bordering
Ningxia
Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...
to the east. It is under the administration of
Baiyin
Baiyin () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Gansu province, People's Republic of China. Established in the 1950s as a base for mining non-ferrous metals, its mines are becoming exhausted in recent decades, requiring the city to reinvent ...
City and located at its southeast end. Its postal code is 730700, and its population in 1999 was 569,599 people.
In October 1936, the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...
met in Huining to celebrate the end of the
Long March
The Long March (, lit. ''Long Expedition'') was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Army of the Chinese ...
.
Administrative divisions
Huining County is divided to 24 towns, 3 townships and 1 ethnic township.
;Towns
*County seat
;Townships
* Dangjiaxian Township()
* Baliwan Township()
* Tugaoshan Township()
;Ethnic townships
* Xintianbao Hui Township()
Climate
Transport
*
China National Highway 312
China National Highway 312 (312国道), also referred to as Route 312 or The Mother Road, is a key east-west route beginning in Shanghai and ending at Khorgas, Xinjiang in the Ili River valley, on the border with Kazakhstan. In total it spans ...
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Gansu
Gansu, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constitue ...
References
Official website (Chinese)
County-level divisions of Gansu
Baiyin
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