Fengshun County
Fengshun (postal: Fungshun or Pungshan; simplified Chinese: 丰顺县; traditional Chinese: 豐順縣; pinyin: Fēngshùn Xiàn) is a county in Meizhou City, in the east of Guangdong Province, southern China.
Fengshun
丰顺县 Fungshun | |
|---|---|
 Location of Fengshun County in Meizhou City and Guangdong province | |
  Fengshun Location of the seat in Guangdong | |
| Coordinates: 23.740°N 116.183°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture-level city | Meizhou |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,710 km2 (1,050 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
History
Qing & Republican China
The town of Tangkeng is the site of the September 30 – October 1, 1927 Battle of Shantou during the Chinese Civil War, when 5000 communist-led troops from the Nanchang Uprising were nearly routed by 15,000 well-positioned and better-supplied Right-Kuomintang forces.
Ethno-linguistic make-up
Meizhou is noted for its large Hakka population, while Fengshun is in the southernmost of its counties bordering the Jieyang and Chaozhou municipalities. Fengshun comprises Teochew and Hakka.
Administrative divisions
Fengshun County's executive, legislature and judiciary are based in Tangkeng (汤坑镇), along with its CPC and PSB branches. The county is responsible for the administration of 16 towns and one Township Enterprise.[1]
- Towns
- Baxiangshan (八乡山镇)
- Beidou (北斗镇)
- Dalonghua (大龙华镇)
- Fengliang (丰良镇)
- Huangjin (黄金镇)
- Jianqiao (建桥镇)
- Liuhuang (留隍镇)
- Longgang (龙岗镇)
- Pantian (潘田镇)
- Puzhai (埔寨镇)
- Shatian (砂田镇)
- Tanjiang (潭江镇)
- Tangkeng (汤坑镇)
- Tangnan (汤南镇)
- Tangxi (汤西镇)
- Xiaosheng (小胜镇)
- Township enterprise
- Puzhai Farm (埔寨农场)
Transport
- Guangzhou–Meizhou–Shantou Railway
Climate
| Climate data for Fengshun (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 29.9 (85.8) |
31.1 (88.0) |
34.1 (93.4) |
36.0 (96.8) |
36.6 (97.9) |
37.8 (100.0) |
39.2 (102.6) |
38.5 (101.3) |
37.2 (99.0) |
35.5 (95.9) |
34.6 (94.3) |
31.8 (89.2) |
39.2 (102.6) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 19.3 (66.7) |
19.6 (67.3) |
21.7 (71.1) |
25.5 (77.9) |
28.8 (83.8) |
30.9 (87.6) |
33.2 (91.8) |
33.0 (91.4) |
31.7 (89.1) |
29.3 (84.7) |
25.6 (78.1) |
21.2 (70.2) |
26.7 (80.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.8 (56.8) |
14.8 (58.6) |
17.3 (63.1) |
21.2 (70.2) |
24.5 (76.1) |
26.8 (80.2) |
28.3 (82.9) |
28.0 (82.4) |
26.7 (80.1) |
23.9 (75.0) |
19.7 (67.5) |
15.3 (59.5) |
21.7 (71.0) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 10.1 (50.2) |
11.6 (52.9) |
14.1 (57.4) |
18.1 (64.6) |
21.4 (70.5) |
23.9 (75.0) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.6 (76.3) |
23.4 (74.1) |
20.1 (68.2) |
15.6 (60.1) |
11.1 (52.0) |
18.2 (64.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 0.4 (32.7) |
1.9 (35.4) |
2.1 (35.8) |
9.0 (48.2) |
13.6 (56.5) |
17.4 (63.3) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.7 (69.3) |
16.5 (61.7) |
10.6 (51.1) |
3.9 (39.0) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 33.1 (1.30) |
79.9 (3.15) |
125.5 (4.94) |
185.9 (7.32) |
223.2 (8.79) |
324.3 (12.77) |
296.4 (11.67) |
279.8 (11.02) |
209.8 (8.26) |
45.0 (1.77) |
31.0 (1.22) |
31.8 (1.25) |
1,865.7 (73.46) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 72 | 78 | 80 | 82 | 82 | 84 | 81 | 82 | 79 | 74 | 71 | 69 | 78 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center | |||||||||||||
References
- "Fengshun County (丰顺县)". National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2014. (in Chinese)
External links
- Fengshun government website (丰顺镇人民政府) (in Chinese)
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