Yangdachengzi () is a
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 ...
in western
Jilin province
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of Northeast China. It is under the administration of
Gongzhuling and is more than west of
Changchun
Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin, Jilin Province, China, on the Songliao Plain. Changchun is administered as a , comprising seven districts, one county and three county-level cities. At the 2020 census of China, Changchun ha ...
, the provincial capital.
Yangdachengzi is on the common border of three county-level divisions, which are Gongzhuling,
Shuangliao and
Changling County. The town has a total area of , with a town district area of . As of 2008, it had a total population of 53,000, while the number of town district residents is 12,000.
History
According to the ''county annals of Huaide'', the town began to form at about 300 years ago during the early
Qing dynasty
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, and it has the longest commercial history in west area of Jilin province. Yangdachengzi began to build its city wall when
Guangxu emperor
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was on his throne. After that, it became the county town of Huaide during the civil war from 1946 to 1949. It was the
taoism
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center of west Jilin in
Chiang Kai-shek-administrative period. The Foguang temple located in Yangdachengzi is one of the biggest
buddhist
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temples in the area of
Siping prefecture-level city.
Administration
The administrative structure of Yangdachengzi contains 1 subdistrict office and 21 villages:
* Yangchengzi ()
* Wuxing()
* Heigangzi ()
* Kaoshan()
* Pingan ()
* Fengxiang ()
* Xinxing ()
* Shengli ()
* Laofangshen ()
* Xiataizi ()
* Wangjiayao ()
* Jianguo()
* Baoquan ()
* Wudatun ()
* Wangzapu ()
* Bazibao ()
* Fujugong ()
* Gongbeigou ()
* Guanjiagou ()
* Jinpen ()
* Changshan ()
References
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Township-level divisions of Jilin