Country Peoples Republic of China Province Hebei Population 1.108 million (2000) Area 1,274 km2 | ||
Dingzhou (Chinese: ; pinyin: , formerly Dingxian (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Chinese Postal Map Romanization: Tingsien) is a county-level city with sub-prefecture-level city status, located under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Baoding in the southwest of Hebei Province in northern China About halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, and as of 2009, Dingzhou had population of 1,200,000. Dingzhou has 3 subdistricts, 13 towns, 8 townships, and 1 ethnic township. Dingzhou is 196 kilometres (122 mi) southwest of Beijing, 68 kilometres (42 mi) northeast of Shijiazhuang.
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Map of Dingzhou
History
Chinas tallest pre-modern pagoda, the 84-metre-tall (276 ft) Liaodi Pagoda, is located here, built in 1055 during the Song Dynasty. In 1973 a tomb was excavated about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southwest of Dingzhou dating to 55 BCE and containing several fragments of Chinese literary works, including an early manuscript of the Analects of Confucius, a manuscript of a Daoist work known as Wenzi and fragments of the military treatise Liu tao.
From 1926 to 1937, the county was the site of the National Association of Mass Education Movements Ting Hsien Experiment of the Rural Reconstruction Movement. In the 1990s the New Rural Reconstruction Movement maintained a training and outreach center.