Ping'an District () formerly known as Ping'anyi (), is an administrative
district
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and the seat of the city of
Haidong, in the east of
Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland Provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. It is the largest provinces of China, province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xin ...
Province, China, located about east from
Xining
Xining is the Capital (political), capital and most populous city of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau. As of the 2020 census, it had 2,467,965 inhabitants (2,208,708 as of 2010), of whom 1,954,795 l ...
. Its postal code is 810600, and its population is 127,480, 29.4% of whom belong to
ethnic minorities
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. The area is known for its
Selenium
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resources.
During the
Han dynasty
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it was known as Anyi County, and as Zhongge during the
Tang dynasty
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, then as Pingrong and Ping'an during the
Ming and
Qing dynasty
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respectively. In 2015, Ping'an
County
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became Ping'an District.
Administrative divisions
Ping'an District is divided into two
subdistricts, one
town
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, five
townships, and one other
township-level division.
The
district's two subdistricts are () and
Xiaoxia Subdistrict ().
The district's sole town is
Sanhe ().
The district's five township-level divisions are (),
Shihuiyao Township (),
Gucheng Township (),
Shagou Township (), and ().
Climate
Transportation
The district is served by two train stations: the , and the . The Ping'anyi railway station was first built in 1959 and is operated by the
China Railway Qingzang Group. The station is situated on the
Lanzhou–Qinghai railway. The
Haidong West railway station is situated on the
Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway.
also runs through the district.
See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Qinghai
*
Taktser, a village in Ping'an District
References
*
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20130718064031/http://www.hdpa.gov.cn/ - People's Government Web site
*https://web.archive.org/web/20100127174358/http://www.qh.xinhuanet.com/pax/zfwq.htm - xinhuanet
*http://www.xzqh.org/quhua/63qh/2121pa.htm - Qinghai Province - China - Administrative Division
*http://www.pancsw.gov.cn/ - Ping'An County Rural Business Information Network
Ping'an County
Haidong
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