Xining

Province

Xining (Chinese西宁 市/西宁 市, Pinyin shì Xining, Tib: zi ling ) is the capital of the Chinese province of Qinghai. The administrative area Xinings has an area of ​​7472 km ² and approximately 2.21 million inhabitants ( census 2010).

Administrative Divisions

As a prefecture-level city, Xining sets together at the county level from four districts, two counties and one autonomous district. These are:

  • Municipality Chengzhong (城中 区= " center " ), 11 km ², 150,000 inhabitants, the seat of the city government;
  • Municipality Chengdong (城东 区= " Oststadt " ), 115 km ², 230,000 inhabitants;
  • Municipality Chengxi (城西 区= " West City " ), 79 km ², 220,000 inhabitants;
  • Municipality Chengbei (城北区= "North City " ), 138 km ², 200,000 inhabitants;
  • Circle Huang Yuan (湟源县), 1609 km ², 140,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Chengguan (城关 镇);
  • Circle Huangzhong (湟 中 县), 2430 km ², 470,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Lushar (鲁沙尔 镇);
  • Datong Hui Autonomous County (大通 回族 土族 自治县), 3090 km ², 430,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Qiaotou (桥头 镇).

Population

The census of 2010 showed that in the administrative area of ​​74.04 % Han Chinese, Hui 16.26%, 5.51% and 2.6% Tu Tibetans lived.

History

The city goes with its founding in the 2nd century BC to a Chinese garrison of the Han period back and experienced the change in baths of various nomadic history and Chinese empires than by rules.

In the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo she was, along with other established since the Han Dynasty outpost, the center of Han Chinese settlement in a habitat that is increasingly was with the emergence of the Tibetan empire in the 7th century to the confrontation space between Tibetans and Han Chinese but also an important hub of trade and cultural exchange.

From the city, which in the 1940s had roughly 50,000 inhabitants, a city of millions has become. Although a modern industrial center, and the Tibetans with economic activities are increasingly present in the cityscape.

Earthquake

The Gulang Earthquake of 1927, which also met Xining, took place on 23 May in 1927 and reached a value of 7.6 on the Richter scale. In the wide -area quake 41,000 people lost their lives. There was also this great country shifts.

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