Qianxi County
迁西县 | |
|---|---|
 The location of Qianxi County in Tangshan City, China | |
  Qianxi Location of the seat in Hebei | |
| Coordinates: 40°08′28″N 118°18′54″E / 40.141°N 118.315°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hebei |
| Prefecture-level city | Tangshan |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,439 km2 (556 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census) | 365,615 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | qianxi |
Qianxi County (simplified Chinese: 迁西县; traditional Chinese: 遷西縣; pinyin: Qiānxī Xiàn) is a county of Hebei province, China. It contains the northernmost point of Tangshan City which administers it.
Spanning an area of 1,439 square kilometres (556 sq mi), Qianxi County is largely agricultural, despite being part of the Jing-Jin-Ji metro region.[2]
Qianxi is known for its chestnuts, producing a third of China's chestnuts export. The history of chestnut cultivation in Qianxi goes back 2,000 years.[3][4]
Some of the oldest dated rock formation are found in Qianxi as part of the Qianxi stage.[5]
- ^ "Official website". qianxi.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ 迁西概况 [Qianxi Overview] (in Chinese). Qianxi County People's Government. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ^ "Raw or cooked, choose chestnuts". archive.shine.cn. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ Xu, Shoubo (2020). Technological Economics. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-981-15-8582-1.
- ^ Liu, D. Y.; Nutman, A. P.; Compston, W.; Wu, J. S.; Shen, Q. H. (1 April 1992). "Remnants of ≥3800 Ma crust in the Chinese part of the Sino-Korean craton". Geology. 20 (4): 339–342. Bibcode:1992Geo....20..339L. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<0339:ROMCIT>2.3.CO;2. ISSN 0091-7613.