Chengxi District () is one of four
districts
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of the
prefecture-level city
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During the Republican era, many of China' ...
of
Xining
Xining (; ), alternatively known as Sining, is the capital of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.
The city was a commercial hub along the Northern Silk Road's Hexi Corridor for over 2000 years, and ...
, the capital of
Qinghai Province
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
,
Northwest
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China.
It covers the western part of Xining's built-up conurbation. It has over 200 000 residents (2004). Ethnically, most are
Han
Han may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group.
** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...
; there are also
Hui
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,
Tibetan
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* of, from, or related to Tibet
* Tibetan people, an ethnic group
* Tibetan language:
** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...
,
Tujia Tujia may refer to:
*the Tujia people
*the Tujia language
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, etc. - 26 in all.
Administration
District executive, legislature and
judiciary
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are in the Xiguan Avenue Subdistrict (), together with the
CPC
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Organizations Companies
* Canada Post Corporation, the primary postal operator in Canada
* Caspian Pipeline Consortium, consortium and a pipeline to transport Caspian oil to Russia's Black Sea coast
* Consolidated Pastoral Co ...
and
PSB branches. (Executive or ''People's Government'' is addressed : May Fourth Avenue, 810001).
Subdistricts
Aside of
Xiguan Avenue, the district oversees another five
Street Committee
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s and one Town:
*
Guchengtai (古城台街道)
*
Hutai (虎台街道)
*
Shengli Rd (胜利路街道)
*
Nanchuan West Rd (南川西路街道)
*
Pengjiazhai Town (彭家寨镇)
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Qinghai
Qinghai, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions.
Administrative divisions
All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the Peop ...
Notes and references
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County-level divisions of Qinghai
Xining