:''Xingning is also the era name for Emperor Ai of the Jin dynasty.'' Xingning ( postal: Hingning; , Hakka: Hinnên) is a

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, under the jurisdiction of

Meizhou City Meizhou ( zh, t=梅州, Hakka Chinese: Mòichû) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It has an area of , and a population of 3,873,239 as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning ...

, Guangdong Province, China. The second largest city in eastern Guangdong, Xingning has an area of and a population of 779,411 (2020).

Names

Xingning was formerly known as Qichang ().

History

Xingning county was established in 331CE, later becoming the capital of the 10th-century

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Dynasty. From its previous long-established status a county, in 1991 Xingning was upgraded to a county-level city within the municipal jurisdiction of Meizhou.

Location

Xingning is located in the north eastern part of Guangdong province and borders the counties of Pingyuan, Meixian, Fengshun and Wuhua in Meizhou City; Longchuan in Heiyuan City and

Xunwu Xunwu County () is a county in the far south of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Fujian to the east and Guangdong to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou. It w ...

Ganzhou City Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District. Hist ...

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Ethno-linguistic make-up

Xingning is noted for its large

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population.

Administrative districts

The city governs three

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and 17

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Subdistricts

* Fuxing * Ningxin * Xingtian

Towns

* Daping * Diaofeng * Luofu * Luogang *

Heshui Heshui County () is a county of Gansu province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qingyang, and is the easternmost county-level division of the province. Its postal code is 745400, and its population in 2023 wa ...

* Huangbei * Huanghuai *

Jingnan Jingnan (), also known as Nanping (南平; alternatively written as Southern Ping) and Northern Chu () in historiography, was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Lasting from ...

* Longtian *

Nibei Nibei is a Towns of the People's Republic of China, town located in the south-central part of Xingning, Guangdong, Xingning City, Meizhou, eastern Guangdong Province, China. It borders Diaofang Town, Meizhou, Diaofang (刁坊镇) to the west and ...

* Ningzhong * Shima * Shuikou * Xinbei * Xinwei * Yetang * Yonghe

Climate

Transport

Guangzhou–Meizhou–Shantou railway The Guangzhou–Meizhou–Shantou railway () is a railway in Guangdong Province, China. The electrified railway, also known as the Guangmeishan railway, is named after the three primary cities along route Guangzhou, Meizhou and Shantou, and has a ...

Longyan–Longchuan high-speed railway The Longyan–Longchuan high-speed railway is a high-speed railway in China. The railway will be long when completed, and will have a design speed of . The section from Meizhou West to Longchuan West will be operated at . History Construction of ...

Culture

The majority of Xingning's residents are

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Tourist attractions

* Shenguang Hill *

Xingning Academy The Xingning Academy is an ancient structure in Xingning, China. Now part of Xingmin High School (), it was originally built during the Ming Dynasty The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynast ...

Heshui Reservoir Heshui County () is a county of Gansu province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qingyang, and is the easternmost county-level division of the province. Its postal code is 745400, and its population in 2023 was ...

References

External links

Life in Xingning (家在兴宁)Xingning Government website
County-level cities in Guangdong Meizhou {{Guangdong-geo-stub