Chifeng

Chifeng 赤峰
—  Prefecture-level city  —
赤峰市
Chifeng (red) in Inner Mongolia (orange)
Chifeng Location of the city centre in Inner Mongolia
Coordinates: 42°15′N 118°53′E / 42.250°N 118.883°E / 42.250; 118.883Coordinates: 42°15′N 118°53′E / 42.250°N 118.883°E / 42.250; 118.883
Country	People's Republic of China
Region	Inner Mongolia
Municipal seat	Hongshan District
Area
• Prefecture-level city	90,275 km2 (34,855 sq mi)
• Urban	7,012 km2 (2,707 sq mi)
• Metro	7,012 km2 (2,707 sq mi)
Elevation	586 m (1,923 ft)
Population (2010 census)
• Prefecture-level city	4,341,245
• Density	Bad rounding here48/km2 (Bad rounding here120/sq mi)
• Urban	1,094,970
• Urban density	Bad rounding here160/km2 (Bad rounding here400/sq mi)
• Metro	1,094,970
• Metro density	Bad rounding here160/km2 (Bad rounding here400/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	024000
Area code(s)	0476
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Licence plate prefixes	蒙D
Website	chifeng.gov.cn

Chifeng, also known as Ulanhadhot (Mongolian: , Mongolian Cyrillic: Улаанхад; 赤峰市; pronounced [ʊlaːnxad xɔt], "red cliff"), is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Xilin Gol to the north and west, Tongliao to the northeast, Chaoyang prefecture of Liaoning province to the southeast, and Chengde prefecture of Hebei province to the south. The city has a total administrative area of 90,275 square kilometres (34,855 sq mi) and has a population of 4,341,245 inhabitants. As of the 2010 census, 1,094,970 of these residents reside within in the urban core districts of Hongshan, Yuanbaoshan and Songshan even though a large part of Songshan is still rural.

Administrative divisions [edit]

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Chifeng has three districts, two counties and seven banners:

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#	Name	Hanzi	Hanyu Pinyin	Population (2010)	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
1	Hongshan District	红山区	Hóngshān Qū	434,785	170	1,765
2	Yuanbaoshan District	元宝山区	Yuánbǎoshān Qū	325,170	887	327
3	Songshan District	松山区	Sōngshān Qū	573,571	5,955	91
4	Ningcheng County	宁城县	Níngchéng Xiàn	546,845	4,305	139
5	Linxi County	林西县	Línxī Xiàn	200,619	3,933	61
6	Ar Khorchin Banner	阿鲁科尔沁旗	Ālǔkē'ěrqìn Qí	272,205	14,555	21
7	Baarin Left Banner	巴林左旗	Bālín Zuǒ Qí	327,765	6,713	52
8	Baarin Right Banner	巴林右旗	Bālín Yòu Qí	175,543	9,837	18
9	Hexigten Banner	克什克腾旗	Kèshíkèténg Qí	211,155	20,673	12
10	Ongniud Banner	翁牛特旗	Wēngniútè Qí	433,298	11,882	40
11	Kharchin Banner	喀喇沁旗	Kālāqìn Qí	293,246	3,071	120
12	Aohan Banner	敖汉旗	Áohàn Qi	547,043	8,294	71

Demographics [edit]

Chifeng
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	赤峰市
Traditional Chinese	赤峰市
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Chìfēng Shì - Wade–Giles Chih-fêng Shih
Mongolian name
Mongolian script
Transcriptions - SASM/GNC ulaɣanqada qota Улаанхад

In 2004, Chifeng had 4,435,737 inhabitants (49.14 per km²).

History [edit]

According to archeology studies, human existence in the Chifeng area can be traced back almost ten thousand years, and the cultural history can be traced back nearly eight thousand years. The representative ruins and relics of Hongshan Culture, Grassland Bronze Culture, Qindan Nationality-Liao Culture and Mongolian-Yuan Culture have been discovered in Chifeng. The ruins of an ancient village, named Xinglonggou, are regarded as “the first village of China” by historians. The biggest jade dragon unearthed in the area is known as “the first dragon of China”. The discovery of ruins and relics of ancient cultures have come from more than 6,800 sites. Chifeng was the political, economic and cultural center of the Liao Dynasty, therefore, the amount of ruins and relics of the Liao Dynasty in Chifeng is ranked the most important in China.

Geography [edit]

Chifeng is situated along the upper reaches of the Xiliao River. Within its area are the southwesternmost extension of the Greater Khingan, the Inner Mongolia Plateau (zh:内蒙古高原) as well as the Xiliao River Plain, and finally the northernmost extent of the Yan Mountains. Bordering prefecture-level divisions are Tongliao to the northeast, Chaoyang (Liaoning) to the southeast, Chengde (Hebei) to the south, and the Xilingol League and to the west. From north to south Chifeng City stretches 457.5 km (284.3 mi), while from east to west it stretches 375 km (233 mi). Elevations decrease from a high of 2,067 m (6,781 ft) in the west to less than 300 m (980 ft) in the east.

Climate [edit]

Chifeng has a four-season, monsoon-influenced, continental steppe climate (Köppen BSk), with long, cold, windy, but dry winters, and hot, humid summers. Monthly mean temperatures range from −10.7 °C (12.7 °F) in January to 23.6 °C (74.5 °F) in July, with an annual mean of 7.49 °C (45.5 °F). Nearly half of the year's rainfall occurs in July and August, and even then dry and sunny weather dominates in the city.

Mineral resources [edit]

In mineral resources, there are over 70 mineral deposits. The area is rich in coal, oil and gas; nonferrous metal and ferrous mental, namely iron, tin, zinc, lead, gold, silver, molybdenum etc. have large reserves. Non-metal minerals include limestone, marble, fluorspar, silica, pearlite, bentonite etc.

In agricultural and animal husbandry products, besides the dominant crops of corn, rice, millet, there are cash crops like beans, buckwheat, oil-used sunflower seeds, sugar beets, tobacco, and Chinese herbals. Yearly yield of grains can reach 6 billion Jin. The facility agriculture featured by greenhouse and cold-keeping shed has come to 220,000mu. The area of natural grassland in the municipality is over 8,900mu. The raising livestock is over 14 million all over the municipality.

Power generation [edit]

In wind and water resources, there are many large and ideal national-grade wind power plants, and more than 60 large and middle size reservoirs. The ground water amounts to 5 billion m3.

Industries [edit]

Major industries include finance, insurance, telecommunications, distribution, logistics, hotels and restaurants, leisure and entertainment. High-tech industrial zone spans 24 km² (9.3 sq mi).

Economy [edit]

During the period of “the 10th Five-Year Plan”, Chifeng conducted the strategy of “found the municipality by ecology, strengthen the municipality by industry, prosper the municipality by science and education”, by strengthening the development of resources, and seizing the historic opportunity of Western Development.

Following the strategy, Chifeng started tightening up ecological and infrastructure construction, actively promoting the process of agricultural and animal husbandry industrialization, industrialization and urbanization, greatly encouraging the development of service industry and county-level economy, trying to expand the general economy volume, increasing industry level, enhancing the core competition.

As a result, the social economy got fast development. Currently, the industrial economic system dominated with minerals, energy, medicines and foods and the agricultural and animal husbandry industrialization development structure dominated with meat, milk, vegetables and grass in Chifeng has been initially taking into shape. Chifeng has become the base of agriculture and animal husbandry and industry of the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. Compared with those of the end of “the 9th Five-Year Plan”, GDP of the municipality, average regional GDP and the fiscal income doubled, the investment of fixed asset quadrupled.

In 2005, GDP of the municipality reached 34.56 billion Yuan, fiscal income reached 3.15 billion Yuan, the investment of fixed asset reached 23.1 billion Yuan, the general retail amount of social consumption reached 13.7 billion Yuan, the urban per capita disposable income came to 7,572 Yuan and average pure income of farmers and herdsmen was 2,817 Yuan. Chifeng had been cited as “Pacesetter of National Sand Control and Ecological Construction”, “National Sanitary City”, “National Model City of supporting army and cherishing the people”, ‘National Perfect Tourism City”, “National perfect City in Social Security”, “Perfect Area of Spiritual Civilization” and “China’s 50 Credit security areas in investment environment”.

During “11th Five-Year Plan”, Chifeng is further conducting the development strategy of “found the municipality by ecology, strengthen the municipality by industry, prosper the municipality by science and education”, by speeding up the process of new type industrialization, Agriculture and animal husbandry industrialization and urbanization, putting stress on industrial economy, project construction and investment introduction, in order to conscientiously increase fiscal income, average income of urban residents and farmers, try to create harmonious Chifeng.

It is planned that, by 2010, GDP will come to 85 billion Yuan, by around 20% up averagely; fiscal income will come to 10 billion Yuan, around 26% up averagely. Through the fast development during “11th Five-year Plan”, Chifeng will be built as a producing base of green agricultural and animal husbandry products, energy supply base accessing to northeastern and northern China, important raw material and deep-processing base of nonferrous metal, tourism site of grassland, central city and goods interflow center between Inner Mongolia and Hebei.

Transport [edit]

Air: Chifeng Airport

Chifeng is a transport hub connecting the east and west area of Inner Mongolia.

Education [edit]

• Chifeng University

Famous people [edit]

• Bao Xishun, recognized as world's tallest man from 2005 until 2007, is from Chifeng, as is his wife.
• Siqingaowa, actress.

References [edit]

• Chifeng (China) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
• Chifeng Introduction—Chifeng Economic Commission

Literature [edit]

• Jinri Nei Menggu: Chifeng 今日内蒙古: 赤峰 (Inner Mongolia Today: Chifeng), 内蒙古人民出版社 Nei Menggu renmin chubanshe, 呼和浩特 Hohhot 1997, ISBN 7-204-03544-5, 9+121 pages

External links [edit]

• http://www.chifeng.gov.cn/ - Chifeng City Government
• http://baike.baidu.com/view/5442.htm - Chifeng _ Baidu Encyclopedia
• http://www.sina-cf.com/ - Sina Cities Alliance - Chifeng
• http://www.cfly.net/ - Chifeng Travel Network (official government)
• http://www.huoche.com.cn/z357/ - Chifeng Train Timetable
• http://www.chifeng.com/ - Chifeng local entertainment information site
• http://www.swcf.cn/ - Chifeng Daily - Dahongshan evening - Chifeng region's most authoritative news website
• http://www.cfxy.cn/ - Chifeng College
• http://www.cfgs.gov.cn/ - Chifeng City Administration for Industry and Commerce
• http://www.cfedu.net/ - Chifeng Education Network

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