How many districts and counties are there in Jiuquan?

By 2022, there will be Suzhou District 1 district, two county-level cities, namely Yumen City and Dunhuang City, two counties, namely Jinta County and Guazhou County, and two autonomous counties, namely Subei Mongolian Autonomous County and Aksai Kazak Autonomous County.

On June 8, 2002, with the approval of the State Council (Guo Han [2002] No.53), Jiuquan area and county-level Jiuquan city were abolished and prefecture-level Jiuquan city was established. Suzhou District was established in Jiuquan City, and the original county-level administrative area of Jiuquan City was Suzhou District. Jiuquan City governs Jinta County, Anxi County, Subei Mongolian Autonomous County, Aksai Kazak Autonomous County and Suzhou District newly established in the former Jiuquan area. Yumen City and Dunhuang City in the former Jiuquan area were directly administered by the province (managed by Jiuquan City).

Jiuquan City, with a total area of192,000 square kilometers, is located in the municipal building of Fukang Road, Suzhou District.

City introduction

Jiuquan, known as Suzhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, an important node city and a provincial sub-central city in Gansu section of the Silk Road Economic Belt approved by the Gansu Provincial People's Government. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the permanent population of Jiuquan City was 1055706.

Jiuquan is located in the northwest of China, the northwest of Gansu Province and the western end of Hexi Corridor. It is connected with Zhangye City and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in Gansu Province in the east, Qinghai Province in the south, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west and Mongolia in the north. Since ancient times, it has been a traffic fortress leading to Xinjiang and the western regions, the cradle of modern space flight, the birthplace of new China's oil industry and nuclear industry, and an important new energy base in China.

Jiuquan, one of the four counties in Hexi in Han Dynasty, is an important town on the Silk Road, named after "there are springs under the city" and "its water is like wine". Jiuquan is the hometown of Dunhuang art, which has created brilliant history and culture. At the same time, due to the movement of nature and human activities, it has created strange and magnificent natural beauty and magnificent human landscape. It has successively won the honorary titles of China Cultural Tourism City and China's most internationally influential tourist destination.

Jiuquan City has Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Anxi Suoyang City, Jiuquan Park, Dunhuang Ya Dan National Geopark and other tourist attractions.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jiuquan