Xunwu County

Xunwu County (simplified Chinese: 寻乌县; traditional Chinese: 尋烏縣; pinyin: Xúnwū Xiàn) is a county in the far south of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Fujian to the east and Guangdong to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou.

Xunwu

寻乌县

Sunwu
County
Location in Jiangxi
Coordinates: 24°57′47″N 115°38′49″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceJiangxi
Prefecture-level cityGanzhou
Area
 • Total2,351 km2 (908 sq mi)
Population
 • Total331,934 (registered population in 2,018)
 • Density141/km2 (370/sq mi)
Postal Code
342200

It was the focus of Mao Zedong's 1930 essay Report from Xunwu which surveyed conditions in the region and related them to Mao's developing theory of Chinese communism.[1]

Administrative divisions

Xunwu County has 7 towns and 8 townships.[2]

7 towns
  • Changning (长宁镇)
  • Chenguang (晨光镇)
  • Liuche (留车镇)
  • Nanqiao (南桥镇)
  • Jitan (吉潭镇)
  • Chengjiang (澄江镇)
  • Guizhumao (桂竹帽镇)
8 townships
  • Danxi (丹溪乡)
  • Dingshan (顶山乡)
  • Shuiyuan (水源乡)
  • Luoshan (罗珊乡)

References
  1. Report from Xunwu. Stanford University: Stanford University Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8047-2182-0.
  2. "南京市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org" (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.



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