Xinxiang

新乡市
Xīnxiāng Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
Area	8,169 km²
Population	5,505,000
GDP	¥38.08 billion (2003)
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	12
Township-level divisions	Unknown
Area Code	373

Xinxiang (simplified Chinese: 新乡; traditional Chinese: 新鄉; pinyin: Xīnxiāng) is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to its southwest, Kaifeng to its southeast, Hebi and Anyang to its north, Jiaozuo to its west, and the provinces of Shanxi and Shandong to its northwest and east respectively.

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Hebi administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 6 counties.

• Weibin District (卫滨区)
• Hongqi District (红旗区)
• Muye District (牧野区}
• Fengquan District (凤泉区}
• Huixian City (辉县市}
• Weihui City (卫辉市)
• Xinxiang County (新乡县)
• Huojia County (获嘉县)
• Yuanyang County (原阳县)
• Yanjing County (延津县)
• Fengqiu County (封丘县)
• Changhuan County (长垣县)

History

Xixiang dated from the Sui dynasty (581-618) and was a small market center before being developed as an industrial center in the 1950s. It also served as the capital of the short-lived Pingyuan province (平原省) between 1949 and 1952. Population (1991) 526,400.

Agriculture and industry

Textiles and processed food are major manufactures.

Transport

The city is a rail junction and industrial center at the head of navigation on the Wei River (卫河). The river, made navigable for small vessels by river improvements in the 1950s, links the city with Tianjin, the main port for Beijing. Later, due to heavy industrial chemical pollution, the river course had been totally cut off and got filled up. After recent dredges, it is still no more than a man-made lake.

External links

• Government website of Xinxiang (in Simplified Chinese)
• Window on Xinxiang (available in Chinese and English)

Coordinates: 35°18′N 113°52′E / 35.3, 113.867

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