Chifeng
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Chifeng also known as Ulanhad, is a prefecture-level city
Prefecture-level city
A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 in southeastern Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the countries of Mongolia and the Russian Federation...

, People's Republic of China. It borders Xilin Gol
Xilin Gol League
Xilin Gol is one of 12 prefecture level divisions of Inner Mongolia. The capital is Xilinhot, the area is 202,580 km². The league's economy is based on mining and agriculture....

 to the north and west, Tongliao
Tongliao
Tongliao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Jilin province to the east, Liaoning to the south, Chifeng to the southwest, the Xilin Gol League to the west, and the Hinggan League to the north. The city was the administrative centre of the...

 to the northeast, Chaoyang prefecture of Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...

 province to the southeast, and Chengde
Chengde
Chengde , previously known as Jehol or Re He , is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China, situated northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by the Qing emperors as summer residence...

 prefecture of Hebei
Hebei
' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...

 province to the south. The city has a total administrative area of 90275 square kilometres (34,855.4 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
Hongshan
Hongshan may refer to:*Hongshan culture , Neolithic culture in northeastern China*Hongshan District, Chifeng , Inner Mongolia*Hongshan District, Wuhan , Hubei*Hong Shan , symbolic mountain of Ürümqi, XinjiangTowns...

, Yuanboshan and Songshan
Songshan
Songshan District is a district of Taipei. The name of the district is historically spelled Sungshan. The Songshan Domestic Airport and the Taipei Arena are located here.-History:...

 even though a large part of Songshan
Songshan
Songshan District is a district of Taipei. The name of the district is historically spelled Sungshan. The Songshan Domestic Airport and the Taipei Arena are located here.-History:...

 is still rural.

Administrative divisions

Chifeng has three districts, two counties and seven banners:
Map
# Name Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin Population (2004 est.) Area (km²) Density (/km²)
1 Hongshan District
Hongshan District, Chifeng
Hongshan District is a district of the city of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.-References:*...

红山区 Hóngshān Qū 300,000 170 1,765
2 Yuanbaoshan District
Yuanbaoshan District
Yuanbaoshan District is a district of the city of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.-References:*...

元宝山区 Yuánbǎoshān Qū 290,000 887 327
3 Songshan District
Songshan District, Chifeng
Songshan District, Chifeng is a district of the city of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.-References:*...

松山区 Sōngshān Qū 540,000 5,955 91
4 Ningcheng County
Ningcheng County
Ningcheng County is a county of southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, bordering Liaoning province to the east. It is under the administration of Chifeng City.-References:*...

宁城县 Níngchéng Xiàn 600,000 4,305 139
5 Linxi County
Linxi County, Inner Mongolia
Linxi County is a county of eastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Chifeng City, to the south-southeast.-Climate:-References:*...

林西县 Línxī Xiàn 240,000 3,933 61
6 Ar Khorchin Banner 阿鲁科尔沁旗 Ālǔkē'ěrqìn Qí 300,000 14,555 21
7 Baarin Left Banner 巴林左旗 Bālín Zuǒ Qí 350,000 6,713 52
8 Baarin Right Banner 巴林右旗 Bālín Yòu Qí 180,000 9,837 18
9 Hexigten Banner 克什克腾旗 Kèshíkèténg Qí 250,000 20,673 12
10 Ongniud Banner
Ongniud Banner
Ongniud Banner is a banner of eastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Chifeng City, to the south-southwest.-References:*...

翁牛特旗 Wēngniútè Qí 470,000 11,882 40
11 Kharchin Banner 喀喇沁旗 Kālāqìn Qí 370,000 3,071 120
12 Aohan Banner
Aohan Banner
Aohan Banner is a banner of southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, bordering Liaoning province to the south. It is under the administration of Chifeng City, to the west.-References:*...

敖汉旗 Áohàn Qi 590,000 8,294 71

Demographics

In 2004, Chifeng had 4,435,737 inhabitants (49.14 per km²).
Ethnic group population share
Han
Han Chinese
Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...

3,441,581 77.58%
Mongols
Mongols
Mongols ) are a Central-East Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in the countries of Mongolia, China, and Russia. In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia...

830,357 18.72%
Manchu
Manchu
The Manchu people or Man are an ethnic minority of China who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the 17th century, with the help of the Ming dynasty rebels , they came to power in China and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, which...

128,656 2.9%
Hui
Hui people
The Hui people are an ethnic group in China, defined as Chinese speaking people descended from foreign Muslims. They are typically distinguished by their practice of Islam, however some also practice other religions, and many are direct descendants of Silk Road travelers.In modern People's...

31,122 0.7%
Koreans
Korean people
The Korean people are an ethnic group originating in the Korean peninsula and Manchuria. Koreans are one of the most ethnically and linguistically homogeneous groups in the world.-Names:...

1,614 0.04%
Zhuang 402 0.01%
Daur 386 0.01%
Other 1,619 0.04%

History

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
Liao Dynasty
The Liao Dynasty , also known as the Khitan Empire was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper between 9071125...

, therefore, the amount of ruins and relics of the Liao Dynasty in Chifeng is ranked the most important in China.

Geography

Chifeng City, or Wulanhada in Mongolian, is a southeast city in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was named by the Red Mountain in the northeast conner of this city. The ancient Xilamulun River and Laohahe River run from east to west like two main veins in human body. The long and short rivers in this land intertwine together, accompanied by the Xing’anling Mountain, winding Yanshan Mountain and the vast prairie
Prairie
Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type...

.

Climate

Chifeng has a four-season, monsoon
Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea...

-influenced, continental
Continentality
Continentality is the tendency of land to experience more thermal variation than water, due to the land's lower specific heat capacity. Continental climate also tends to be dryer than oceanic climate as there is less moisture input to the atmosphere from evaporation...

 steppe climate (Köppen
Köppen climate classification
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 BSk), with long, cold, windy, but dry winters, and hot, humid summers. Monthly mean temperatures range from −10.7 °C in January to 23.6 °C (74.5 °F) in July, with an annual mean of 7.5 °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

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

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

Major industries include finance, insurance, telecommunications, distribution, logistics, hotels and restaurants, leisure and entertainment. High-tech industrial zone spans 24 square kilometers.

Economy

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

Air: Chifeng Airport
Chifeng Airport
Chifeng Yulong Airport is an airport serving Chifeng, a city in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China.-Airlines and destinations:...



Chifeng is a transport hub Connecting Chifeng, the eastern and western area of Inner Mongolia, north-east part of China and the north part of China. There is only 315 km from Beijing to Chifeng, so it is nicknamed as the "back garden of Beijing." Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

, Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

, Shenyang
Shenyang
Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...

 and other big cities are only 500 km away from Chifeng. While Jinzhou
Jinzhou
Jinzhou , is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, China. It is a geographically strategic city located in the "Liaoxi Corridor" , which connects land transportation between North China and Northeast China. Jinzhou is China's northernmost seaport and the coastal economic center of West...

, Huludao
Huludao
Huludao is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning Province, China. It is one of the two principal cities in the Liaoxi Corridor . Known as Jinxi until 1994, Huludao has a total area of 10,415 square kilometers and a population of 2.87 million, of which some 531,000 live in the city proper...

, Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao is a port city in northeastern Hebei province of North China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....

, are less 300 km away from Chifeng. There are 8 provincial or national highways linking Chifeng with surrounding cities. In the south, the railway between Beijing to Tongliao
Tongliao
Tongliao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Jilin province to the east, Liaoning to the south, Chifeng to the southwest, the Xilin Gol League to the west, and the Hinggan League to the north. The city was the administrative centre of the...

 and the railway between Yebaishou to Chifeng converge at here, connecting the north-east part and the north part of China closely. In the north, the railway between Jining
Jining, Shandong
Jining is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Heze to the southwest, Zaozhuang to the southeast, Tai'an to the northeast, and the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu to the northwest and south respectively...

 to Tongliao
Tongliao
Tongliao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Jilin province to the east, Liaoning to the south, Chifeng to the southwest, the Xilin Gol League to the west, and the Hinggan League to the north. The city was the administrative centre of the...

 and the railway between Chifeng to Dalian
Dalian
Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning province, Northeast China. It faces Shandong to the south, the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Dalian is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's...

 intertwine together and run through the hinterland; there are direct train from Chifeng to Beijing, Harbin
Harbin
Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...

, Shenyang, Dalian, the city of Shanhaiguan
Shanhaiguan District
Shanhaiguan District is a district of the city of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, People's Republic of China, named after the pass of the Great Wall within the district, Shanhai Pass...

, and non-stop civil aviation flights to Beijing, Hohhot
Hohhot
Hohhot , is a city in north-central China and the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, serving as the region's administrative, economic, and cultural centre....

 and other cities.

Chifeng is at the junction between Northeast and North China, 400–600 km away to cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang and Dalian etc, less than 300 km away to some coastal ports of Jinzhou, Qinhuangdao etc. It is easily got affects from the two economic areas of northeast and Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan. Referring to the transportation, there are railways (Beijing-Tongliao, Jining- Tongliao, Yebaishou-Chifeng) and national and provincial highways (111, 305, 306 and Great passageway) within the boundary of Chifeng. And there are airlines to Beijing and to Huhhot. Currently, Railway Chifeng-daban-baicheng and the two express highways Chifeng-Tongliao and Chifeng-Daban are in construction. The express highway Chifeng-Chaoyang is around construction this year. Thereafter, Chifeng will access to northern China and Northeastern China express highway nets. Chifeng will become an express passage between northern and northeastern China, and will also become the important passage way of goods from northern leagues of Inner Mongolian and Mongolian Republic.

Famous people

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

Literature

  • 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 7204035445, 9+121 pages

External links

  • 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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