Qingtongxia (,

Xiao'erjing Xiao'erjing or Xiao'erjin or Xiaor jin or in its shortened form, Xiaojing, literally meaning "children's script" or "minor script" (cf. "original script" referring to the original Perso-Arabic script; zh, s=本经, t=本經, p=Běnjīng, Xiao ...

: ٿٍْ‌طْوثِيَا شِ) is a city in north-central

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 ...

, China. Administratively, Qingtongxia 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 ...

within 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 Wuzhong. It is located on the left (northwestern) bank of the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...

, opposite and a bit upstream of Wuzhong main urban area, and borders

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 ...

to the west. Qingtongxia had 264,717 residents in 2010. Many residents of Qingtongxia are

Hui The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

Muslim.

Places of interest

On the bank of the Yellow River outside the city of Qingtongxia is the site of 108 Buddhist stupas which were constructed during the Western Xia period.

Economy

Qingtongxia Dam on the Yellow River () is located in Qingtongxia. A major irrigation canal branches off the river near the dam and runs north.

Administrative divisions

Qingtongxia City has 1 subdistrict 7 towns and 2 farms. ;1 subdistrict * Yumin (, ) ;7 towns * Xiaoba (, ) * Chenyuantan (, ) * Xiakou (, ) * Qujing (, ) * Yesheng (, ) * Qingtongxia (, ) * Daba (, ) ;2 others : farms * Shuxin Forestry Farm (, ) * Lianhu Farm (, )

Climate

References

Cities in Ningxia Wuzhong, Ningxia County-level divisions of Ningxia {{Ningxia-geo-stub