Huangshan City

Huangshan is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. Huangshan means Yellow Mountain in Chinese and the city is named after the famously scenic Yellow Mountains which cover much of the city's vast geographic expanse. The prefectural city of Huangshan includes three urban districts and four counties. The urban center of Huangshan was originally the city of Tunxi and is now called Tunxi District. Locals still call the city Tunxi to distinguish the urban core from other parts of Huangshan. The population of Huangshan city, as of the end of 2021, was 1.332 million, with an urbanization rate of 59.25%, an increase of 0.96 percentage points over the previous year. By the end of 2021, the household population of Huangshan City will be 1,485,700, with an urbanization rate of 37.82%, an increase of 1.66 percentage points.

Administration

The prefecture-level city of Huangshan administers 7 county-level divisions, including 3 districts and 4 counties. • Tunxi District () • Huangshan District () • Huizhou District () • She County () • Xiuning County () • Yi County () • Qimen County () These are further divided into 145 township-level divisions, including 58 towns, 43 townships and 4 subdistricts. == Geography and climate ==

Geography and climate

Lower elevations of Huangshan City have a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with short, cool winters and long, very hot and humid summers. At the central Tunxi District, the monthly mean temperature ranges from in January to in July, and the annual mean is . Precipitation is concentrated in spring and the earlier part of summer, and, at annually, is very high for the province, and more than double than the normal annual precipitation in northern parts of the province. == Economy ==

Economy

Huangshan is famous for its tea, including Keemun tea, which is produced in Qimen County, and Maofeng green tea. The city is also home to significant tourism, centered on Mount Huang and including other scenic and historic sites (such as Xidi and Hongcun), ==Transportation==

Transportation

Due to rugged terrain, Huangshan was historically a secluded region. The Xinan River provided an outlet to the east. Winding, narrow roads through Huang Mountains made trips to Xuancheng, Wuhu, Guichi and the Yangtze River slow and arduous. In recent decades, improvements to the transportation infrastructure have made the city and its surrounding tourist attractions more accessible. Air The Huangshan Tunxi International Airport, also referred to as the Tunxi Airport, is located in Tunxi District and is known by the IATA abbreviation TXN. The airport was opened in October 1959, and has been expanded five times, including an expansion in 2000. The Huangshan-Taling-Taolin Expressway and Anhui Provincial Route S326, also pass through the city. ==Cultural history==

Cultural history

and Hongcun. In the Ming dynasty, (; 1518–1595), a native of Qimen County, wrote the opera Mulian Rescues His Mother. According to local legend, Zheng was blind when he wrote the opera and was restored to full sight by a grateful Guanyin (the legend also has it that when Zheng later wrote a love story he went blind again). In 2011, local authorities promoted performance of the Ming dynasty play Mulian Rescues His Mother as a tourist attraction. == Notable people ==

Notable people

• Zhang Rongqiao (b.1966), physicist and aerospace engineer, served as the chief designer of Tianwen-1 Mars mission • Gloria Ai (b.1987), business anchorwoman and author ==International relations==

International relations

Huangshan City is twinned with: • Serravalle, San Marino (1999) == Other notes ==

Other notes

In early 2008, the BBC broadcast a series of 5 documentaries on life for schoolchildren in China, called "Chinese School". One of the three schools documented was Xiuning High School, the top school in the county. This was situated in the town of Xiuning, in the county of Xiuning in Huangshan. == See also ==

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