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Prefecture-level city
  
Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Local time
  
Friday 5:22 AM

County seat
  
Area
  
3,099 km²

Province
  
Changting County wwwamoymagiccomlongyanChangtingchangt84jpg

Country
  
People's Republic of China

Weather
  
6°C, Wind SE at 2 km/h, 70% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Tingzhou Ancient City, Wolong Mountain

 Changting  (simplified Chinese: 长汀; traditional Chinese: 長汀; pinyin: Chángtīng; Hakka Chinese: Tshòng-tin), also known as Tingzhou or Tingchow(汀州), is a county in western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. With a population of 480,000 and an area of 3,099 square kilometres (1,197 sq mi), Changting is the fifth largest county in the province [1]. The majority of the population belongs to the Hakka people (客家人) and speaks Changting dialect, a dialect of Hakka Chinese (客家语). The Changting dialect is mutually unintelligible with the Meixian dialect, which is another Hakka language spoken in Guangdong.

Contents

Map of Changting, Longyan, Fujian, China

The county seat is the town of Tingzhou.

History

  • Main article : Tingzhou Prefecture

  • Changting was originally the name of a prefecture (called Tingzhou in imperial times), established in the second year of the Republic of China - 1913. During the Chinese Civil War, this prefecture was the economic and financial centre of the Chinese Soviet Republic. Tens of thousands of people from Changting joined the Chinese Red Army but not many survived the Long March.

    With the founding of the People's Republic of China, the prefecture was redesignated "Longyan" (龙岩地区) and its government was moved down to Xinluo (新罗). Changting has since been the name of a county only, within the municipal region of Longyan.

    With the prosperity of road and railway transportation and more and more dams built along the river, Ting River gradually lost its advantage as a vital transportation means. Changting, once an important concentration place for travellers and goods, became isolated by big mountains. Changting lost its place as the center of western Fujian and became one of the poorest counties in Fujian province.

    Today, the situation has improved a lot with first railroad in service in 2005 and first highway in service at the end of 2007.

    Geography

    Changting borders Liancheng County to the east, Wuping and Shanghang counties to the south (all in Longyan municipality), Sanming municipality's Ninghua County to the north, Ganzhou municipality's Ruijin City in Jiangxi province to the west.

    Located in the southern end of the Wuyi Mountains (武夷山脉), Changting belongs to subtropical zone. The region enjoys abundant precipitation as the warm maritime air meets the cool air in the mountains, generating a large amount of rainfall.

    Administration

    The county executive, legislature and judiciary are in Tingzhou Town, together with the CPC and PSB branches.

    Towns (镇, zhen)

  • Tingzhou (汀州) - the county seat
  • Guanqian (馆前)
  • Hetian (河田)
  • Gucheng (古城)
  • Tongfang (童坊)
  • Xinqiao (新桥)
  • Nanshan (南山)
  • Zhuotian (濯田)
  • Sidu (四都)
  • Datong (大同)
  • Tufang (涂坊)
  • Township (乡, xiang)

  • Anjie (庵杰)
  • Cewu (策武)
  • Sanzhou (三洲)
  • Tiechang (铁长)
  • Yanggu (羊牯)
  • Xuancheng (宣成)
  • Hongshan (红山)
  • Notable natives

    (i.e., of Tingzhou/Changting Prefecture and of PRC's Changting County):

  • Yang Chengwu (杨成武), 1914-2004 Revolutionarian and General of People's Liberation Army
  • Chen Pixian (陈丕显), 1916-1995 Revolutionarian and CPC official
  • Fu Lianzhang (傅连璋), 1894-1968 Christian, practitioner of western medicine, Long March veteran, PRC Health Ministry official and Cultural Revolution victim.
  • Chen Hong (陈宏) (1979-), number 1 badminton player on the world ranking list from 2002 to 2003.
  • References

    Changting County Wikipedia


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