County-level city in Shanxi, People's Republic of China
Huozhou (Chinese: 霍州; pinyin: Huòzhōu), formerly Huo County or Huoxian, is a county-level city in Linfen, in southern Shanxi Province, China.[2] The city spans an area or 765 square kilometers, and has a population of 155,000 as of 2017.[1]
Administrative divisions[edit]Huozhou has jurisdiction over five subdistricts, four towns and three townships.[2]
The city's subdistricts are Nanhuan Road Subdistrict [zh] (南环路街道), Gulou Subdistrict [zh] (鼓楼街道), Beihuan Road Subdistrict [zh] (北环路街道), Kaiyuan Subdistrict [zh] (开元街道), and Tuisha Subdistrict [zh] (退沙街道).[2]
The city's towns are Xinzhi [zh] (辛置镇), Dazhang [zh] (大张镇), Bailong [zh] (白龙镇), and Licao [zh] (李曹镇).[2]
The city's townships are Sanjiao Township [zh] (三教乡), Shizhuang Township [zh] (师庄乡), and Taotangyu Township [zh] (陶唐峪乡).[2]
The city's administrative offices are located in Kaiyuan Subdistrict.[2]
The city's altitude ranges from 516 to 2,504.3 m (1,693 to 8,216 ft) in height.[2] The Fen River runs through the city from north to south.[2]
Huozhou has an annual average temperature of 12.2 °C (54.0 °F), an annual precipitation averaging 437.3 mm (17.22 in), and an average of 2265.1 annual sunshine hours.[3]
Climate data for Huozhou, elevation 550 m (1,800 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °C (°F) 16.6Present-day Huozhou was once part of the Ji Province of ancient China, when it was simply named Huo (霍; Huò).[3] During the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history, the city was conquered by Duke Xian of Jin in 661 BCE, and was subsequently renamed Huoyi (霍邑; Huòyì).[3] During the Yuan dynasty, the area received its current name, Huozhou (霍州; Huòzhōu).[3]
During the Ming dynasty, the city was made a fief for second rank princely peerages.
Major agricultural products produced in Huozhou include wheat, corn, millet, soybeans, potatoes, apples, walnuts, cotton, sunflower oil, rapeseed, and various vegetables.[3]
Huozhou's mineral deposits include iron, copper, aluminum, gold, limestone, dolomite, gypsum, refractory clay, phosphorus, sillimanite, kaolinite, pegmatite, quartz sand, barite, graphite, granite, Yixing clay, taotu [zh], pyrite, other types of clay, sand and gravel, rare earth minerals, energy mineral coal, mineral water.[3] As of 2011, the city's coal reserves total 1.735 billion tons, and quartz sand reserves totalled 170 million tons.[3]
The southern portion of the Datong–Puzhou railway and the G5 Beijing-Kunming Expressway both run through the city.[2]
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4