Pingjiang is a county in the municipal region of Yueyang

Yueyang

Yueyang is a prefecture-level city at the northeastern corner of Hunan province, South Central China, on the southern shores of Dongting Lake.The Yueyang metropolitan area occupies 14,896 km². and the city proper occupies 304 km²...

, Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

. It fronts on the Yangzijiang River (扬子江)

Yangtze River

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 and contains a good deal of the Lake Dongting shoreline.

Administration

The county executive, legislature and judiciary

Basic people's court

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 are in Hanchang Town, together with the CPC

Communist Party of China

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 and PSB

Public Security Bureau

In the People's Republic of China, a public security bureau refers to the government offices while the smaller offices are called Police posts which are similar in concept to the Japanese Kōban system) present in each province and municipality that handles policing , public security, and...

 branches.

Towns (镇, zhen)

• Hanchang (汉昌) - on National Route 106
• Meixian (梅仙) - on 106
• Nanjiang (南江) - on 106
• Anding (安定) - on 106
• Sanshi (三市)
• Jiayi (加义)
• Changshou (长寿)
• Longmen (龙门)
• Hongqiao (虹桥) - see below
• Tongshi (童市)
• Cenchuan (岑川)
• Wushi (伍市) - on the G4 or [Bei]jing-Zhu[hai] Expressway
  Jingzhu Expressway
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• Xiangjia (向家) - on the G4
• Wukou (浯口)
• Wengjiang (瓮江)

Revolutionary

In the Chinese Civil War

Chinese Civil War

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, Pingjiang was a part of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area (湘鄂赣革命根据地), and, from 1931 November, of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet (湘鄂赣苏维埃)

Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet

The Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi Soviet was a Comintern and local communist-led liberated zone in the 1930s south of the Yangzi River, comprising parts of counties in what are now the municipal regions of Yueyang in Hunan, Xianning in Hubei and, in Jiangxi, Jiujiang and Yichun...