Minqing County is a

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

in eastern

Fujian Province Fujian is a province in southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefecture city by population is Qua ...

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. It is under the administration of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

, the provincial capital.

History

Fire from the soldiers at Meicheng (then romanized "Min-tsing") turned back an expedition by

Karl Gützlaff Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a Germans, German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and in ...

and Edwin Stevens to explore and evangelize in Fujian's

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country in 1835..

Division

Minqing County includes the

towns A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

of Meicheng (), Bandong (), Chiyuan (), Meixi (), Baizhang (), Baizhong (), Tazhuang (), Dongqiao (), Xiongjiang (), Jinsha (), and Shenghuang () and the

townships A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

of Yunlong (), Shanglian (), Sanxi (), Xiazhu (), and Kulin ().

Climate

Transportation

The county is served by Minqing North railway station on the

Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed railway Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed railway (), is a double track, dual-track, Railway electrification system, electrified, passenger-dedicated, high-speed rail in China, high-speed rail line between Hefei and Fuzhou, the provincial capitals of Anhui and F ...

. The Nanping–Fuzhou railway passes through the county but there is no passenger service. The last passenger station, Minqing railway station, was closed in 2016.

References

County-level divisions of Fujian Fuzhou {{Fujian-geo-stub