Xinhua 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 ...
and the
4th most populous county-level division in the
Province
A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Hunan
Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...
, China; it is under the administration of
Loudi City.
Located along the middle reaches of the
Zi River
The Zi River (资水) in Hunan, China, flows into the Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau an ...
, it covers 3,635 square kilometers and has a population of 1,196,538 (November 2020). Xinhua shares the border with
Lengshuijiang,
Lianyuan,
Xinshao,
Xupu and
Longhui counties and cities. As a county, it was founded in 1072 (
Northern Song dynasty
The Song dynasty ( ) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, endin ...
) and now it is under jurisdiction of the Loudi City and subdivided into 7
township
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 ...
s and 19
town
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 ...
s, with
Shangmei as the county seat.
The economy of Xinhua County is largely agricultural, with 741 thousand of Xinhua County's population of 1.2 million working in agriculture. Other than agriculture, industries include machinery, electronics, ceramics, building materials, metallurgy, coal, chemical, food, paper, bamboo and
wood processing
Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing.
The major wo ...
. In recent years, Xinhua County's economy has grown quite a lot.
In 2011, media attention was attracted by a construction project started by the county's government. In the hope of attracting tourists, the officials wanted to build a lavish temple (Xiongshan Si - ), diverting funds from more essential projects.
湖南新化回应媒体曝“强扣水利款建旅游区”事宜
(Hunan's Xinhua ountyresponds to media's claims of the diversion of irrigation funds to the construction of a tourist area).
Climate
Notable people
* He Jiankui, the key figure in the genetically-edited human embryo He Jiankui affair was born here.
References
External links
County-level divisions of Hunan
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