Guye District () is a

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of the city of

Tangshan Tangshan ( zh, c=唐山 , p=Tángshān) is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the northeastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in t ...

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

province,

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. The district is located approximately to the east of Tangshan's urban center. Guye District spans an area of , and has a population of 358,461 per the

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History

Prior to 1950, the area was governed by nearby Luan County (), now

Luanzhou Luanzhou (), formerly Luan County (), is a county-level city in the east of Hebei province, China. It is under the administration of Tangshan city. The city spans an area of about , and, as of 2024, has a population of 518,900. The city's economy i ...

. In 1950, it was formed as Tangshan District Seven (). In 1955, the area was reorganized as East Mining District (). In 1995, the area was reorganized as Guye District, which it remains today. On July 12, 2020, the district was the

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of a Magnitude 5.1

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. There were no fatalities.

Geography

Guye District is located approximately to the east of Tangshan's urban center. The northern portion of the

has a relatively higher elevation, which the southern portion is relatively lower.

Climate

Guye District experiences an average annual

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of , and an average

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of .

Administrative divisions

Guye District administers five

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, two

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, and three

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Subdistricts

Guye District administers the following five subdistricts: * () *

Tangjiazhuang Subdistrict Tangjiazhuang Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Guye District, in the city of Tangshan, Hebei, China. History On December 12, 2010, Donglian Community () and Qiaobei Community () were moved from Tangjiazhuang Subdistrict to the bordering town ...

() * () * () *

Towns

Guye District administers the following two towns: * () * ()

Townships

Guye District administers the following three townships: * () * () * ()

Demographics

The

had a population of 358,461 per the

, down from the 383,209 recorded in the

2000 Chinese Census The 2000 Chinese census, officially the Fifth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China (), was conducted by the government of the People's Republic of China with 1 November 2000 as its zero hour. The total population was calcul ...

. A 1996 estimate put Guye District's population at approximately 382,000.

Economy

Guye District is home to a significant

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

industry. Major mineral deposits in the

include

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal i ...

refractory In materials science, a refractory (or refractory material) is a material that is resistant to decomposition by heat or chemical attack and that retains its strength and rigidity at high temperatures. They are inorganic, non-metallic compound ...

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...

quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The Atom, atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen Tetrahedral molecular geometry, tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tet ...

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

, dolomite, various types of

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) ...

, and

illite Illite, also called hydromica or hydromuscovite, is a group of closely related non-expanding clay minerals. Illite is a secondary mineral precipitate, and an example of a phyllosilicate, or layered alumino-silicate. Its structure is a 2:1 sandw ...

. Major mines are located in , , and .

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mines coal in the district.

Transport

The

Beijing–Harbin railway The Beijing–Harbin railway, or the Jingha Railway (), is the railway that connects Beijing with Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province. It spans . It is a very prominent route in the provinces of northeastern China. History Construct ...

passes through Guye District, as does National Highway 205.

References

External links

{{authority control County-level divisions of Hebei Tangshan