Gulangyu District
Encyclopedia
Gulangyu is a subdistrict
or Street Committee under Siming District in the municipality of Xiamen
, Fujian
province, People's Republic of China. It is named for the island it encompasses.
Gulangyu covers an area of 1.91 km2, with a household population of 15,373.
(公安分局, roughly analogous to a Sheriff's Office) and Lower-level People's Lawcourt
, as well as its own government.
In May of that year Gulangyu District was downgraded and, along with Kaiyuan District
, absorbed into Siming, and has since been administered, policed, and adjudicated from Xiamen Island, just across the Lujiang River.
Subdistrict (China)
The subdistrict , is one of the smallest political divisions of China. It is a form of township-level division which is typically part of a larger urban area, as opposed to a discrete town surrounded by rural areas, or a rural townships known as a xiang .In general, urban areas are divided into...
or Street Committee under Siming District in the municipality of Xiamen
Xiamen
Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...
, Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...
province, People's Republic of China. It is named for the island it encompasses.
Gulangyu covers an area of 1.91 km2, with a household population of 15,373.
History
Until 2003 Gulangyu was a district, one of four in the municipality not located on Xiamen Island. Thus Gulangyu had its own gong'an fenjuMinistry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
The Ministry of Public Security , is the principal police and security authority of the mainland of the People's Republic of China and the government agency that exercises oversight over and is ultimately responsible for day-to-day law enforcement...
(公安分局, roughly analogous to a Sheriff's Office) and Lower-level People's Lawcourt
Basic people's court
A basic people's court is a lowest level court in the Courts of General Jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the basic people's courts handle the first instance cases at the local level.Basic people's...
, as well as its own government.
In May of that year Gulangyu District was downgraded and, along with Kaiyuan District
Kaiyuan District
Kaiyuan Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of and has a registered population of 63362....
, absorbed into Siming, and has since been administered, policed, and adjudicated from Xiamen Island, just across the Lujiang River.