Xifeng District () is a

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and the seat of the city of

Qingyang Qingyang () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China. Geography and climate Qingyang is the easternmost prefecture-level division of Gansu and is thus sometimes referred to as "Longdong" (). It forms an administrative penin ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibe ...

Province, China. It has an area of and a population of 376,800 in 2019. Inhabited since at least 200,000 years ago, it first became an important town in the

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, due to its location on the route from

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(Xi'an) to

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 ...

. In 1985, Xifeng was upgraded to a city in Qingyang Prefecture. In 2002, Qingyang Prefecture was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, and Xifeng City (county-level) became its district.

Economy

Xifeng is known as the grain shed of eastern Gansu, but is also known for its fruit orchards. The Xifeng oilfield located in the district is one of the largest oilfields of the Ordos Basin. Although oil was presumed to be present under Xifeng since 1907, exploitation didn't start until the 1960s.

Tourism

Xifeng is home to the Beishiku temple-grottoes, a system of 195 caves built in 509 AD.

Geography

The district is located centrally on a loess plain named Dongzhiyuan () flanked by gullies, at around 1421 m elevation. The plain is considered the world's largest of its kind and estimated to be around 200 m in thickness. Due to erosion, the plain has shrunk over on a total area of in the past 100 years.

Administrative divisions

Xifeng District is divided into 3 Subdistricts, 5 towns, and 2 townships. ;Subdistricts * Beijie Banshichu Subdistrict () * Nanjie Banshichu Subdistrict () * Xijie Banshichu Subdistrict () ;Towns ;Townships * Shishe Township() * Xiansheng Township()

Transport

* Qingyang Xifeng Airport *

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* Qingyang railway station

References

County-level divisions of Gansu Qingyang {{Gansu-geo-stub