Ansai () is a district of the city of

Yan'an Yan'an; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively spelled as Yenan is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of Shaanxi Province of China, province, China, bordering Shanxi to the east and Gansu to the west. It administers several c ...

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province, China. It has a total area of and a population of 172,900 people. Part of the

Loess Plateau The Loess Plateau is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic rock, clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of Dust#Atmospheric, wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by t ...

, the district has an average elevation of . Its postal code is 717400, and its Serial Number is 610624.

Administrative divisions

Ansai District administers three subdistricts and eight towns.

Subdistricts

Ansai has jurisdiction over the following 3 subdistricts: * () * Jinming Subdistrict () * Baiping Subdistrict ()

Towns

Ansai has jurisdiction over the following 8 towns: * () * Yanhewan () * () * () * () * () * () * ()

Geography

The district, located in the

, is largely hilly, with its elevation ranging from to in height. The main rivers of the district are the Yan River, the Xingzi River, the Xichuan River, the Xiaochuan River, the Xiaogou River, and the Shuangyang River.

Climate

The district has an average temperature of , an average annual rainfall of , and experiences an average of 2,395.6 hours of sunshine per year.

Economy

Ansai is a traditionally agricultural district where

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livestock Livestock are the Domestication, domesticated animals that are raised in an Agriculture, agricultural setting to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, Egg as food, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The t ...

apple An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus'' spp.). Fruit trees of the orchard or domestic apple (''Malus domestica''), the most widely grown in the genus, are agriculture, cultivated worldwide. The tree originated ...

s, apricots are produced. Key natural resources in the district include oil,

natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

iron Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe () and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's o ...

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

, gypsum, kerogen and fire clay.

Culture

Ansai's cultural heritage includes typical Shanbei folk art. There is a tradition of paper-cutting, the painting of farmers, clay crafts, waist drums, and

folk song Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be ca ...

s. Ansai's drum music has long been famous. A large number of folk art items are stored in the district office. Ansai is part of the Chinese Communists base in northern

, with several schools in the south suburb of Yan'an.

Transport

The G65 Baomao Expressway, Shaanxi Highway 206, and Shaanxi Highway 303 pass through the district. The Yanwu Expressway, an expressway connecting Ansai District to nearby Wuqi County, begins in the town of Yanhewan in Ansai District. In August 2012, a sleeper bus crashed into a tanker carrying

methanol Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic Alcohol (chemistry), alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often ab ...

, killing 36 people and injuring 3.

References

External links

Agricultural Information WebsiteAnsai Online
{{authority control Districts of Yan'an