Shuanghe is a

county-level city A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...

in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It is located east of Bole City and southwest of Alashankou and the border with

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. Shuanghe governs an area of and has a population of 53,800. Shuanghe is the headquarter of the 5th Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and currently administered by the 5th Division. The city implemented the "division and city integration" ( 师市合一, ''shī shì héyī'') management system, it shares the same leader group with the 5th Division.

Name

The name Shuanghe means "two rivers", referring to the Bortala River and Jing River (Tsingho) (). It is named after the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

administrative division Shuanghe Dudufu (), which was established in the area in 658 AD.

History

The city was formerly the settled and cultivated areas of the Fifth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). In January 2014, the

State Council of China The State Council of the People's Republic of China, also known as the Central People's Government, is the chief administrative authority and national cabinet. It is constitutionally the highest administrative organ of the country and the e ...

approved the establishment of Shuanghe City and the city was formally established on 26 February 2014. Shuanghe is the seventh city in Xinjiang converted from XPCC land, after

Shihezi Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, China. It has a population of 380,130 according to the 2010 census. The city is also home to Shihezi University, the second-largest comprehensive university under the Project 211 in Xi ...

, Aral, Tumxuk, Wujiaqu, Beitun, and Tiemenguan. Like the other cities of XPCC, it is a county-level city directly administered by Xinjiang Autonomous Region, without an intervening prefectural government.

Administrative divisions

Shuanghe contains 1

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, 5

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, and 1 township-equivalent region:

Notes

References

{{authority control County-level divisions of Xinjiang 2014 establishments in China Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Populated places in Xinjiang Socialist planned cities