Region Guangxi Municipal seat Dongxing Town (东兴镇) Postal code 538100 Area 540.7 km² Population 110,000 (2007) | Prefecture-level city Fangchenggang Time zone China Standard (UTC+8) Elevation 12 m Local time Friday 3:51 PM Area code 0770 | |
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Country People's Republic of China Weather 24°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 79% Humidity Points of interest Dongxing Port, Daqingguo No.1 Jiebei | ||
Dongxing (simplified Chinese: 东兴; traditional Chinese: 東興; pinyin: Dōngxīng,Vietnamese: Đông Hưng) is a county-level city of Guangxi, People's Republic of China, on the border with Mong Cai of Vietnam.
Contents
- Map of Dongxing Fangchenggang Guangxi China
- Refugees from Vietnam
- Climate
- Administrative divisions
- References
Map of Dongxing, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China
Refugees from Vietnam
In the summer of 1978, the Friendship Bridge that connected Dongxing and Mong Cai in Vietnam became a makeshift refugee camp for thousands of ethnic Chinese fleeing Vietnam. Ethnic Chinese had lived in Northern Vietnam for decades under Communist rule, but after the North and South unified in April 1975, the Communist government saw the Chinese in the South, many of whom were successful capitalists, as a threat to their socialist system and began persecuting the Chinese, forcing many to flee by boat. They became known as the Boat People. The Chinese in the North, who were mostly farmers, were also persecuted as part of a nationwide 'ethnic cleansing' instituted by Hanoi. This caused an exodus of over 250,000 Chinese from Vietnam to China, mainly to Dongxing.
Climate
Dongxing has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), with mild to warm winters and long, hot (but not especially) summers, and very humid conditions year-round. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 15.1 °C (59.2 °F) in January to 28.0 °C (82.4 °F) in July, while extremes have ranged from 3.3 to 37.1 °C (38 to 99 °F). Rain is both the heaviest and most frequent from June to September, when 70% of the annual rainfall also occurs. This is in contrast to the autumn and winter months, where only 30 to 50 millimetres (1.2 to 2.0 in) of rain falls per month.
Administrative divisions
Dongxing administers 3 towns:
Towns: