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Baiyin Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Gansu Province , In Chinese [白银市]

Facts & Informations :

Administrative Division Code : 620400;
Post Code : 730900;
Phone Area Code :0943
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 甘D
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 620400
Population : 17,455,000 persons;
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The adminitrative division form of Baiyin is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Baiyin Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1Pingchuan District平川区Pingchuan QuDistrict
2Baiyin District白银区Baiyin QuDistrict
3Jingtai County景泰县Jingtai XianCounty
4Huining County会宁县Huining XianCounty
5Jingyuan County靖远县Jingyuan XianCounty
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Overview



Baiyin is a treasure place with a beautiful name (Baiyin means white silver in English). It was as early as in the Han Dynasty that mining began here. The records of mining in Baiyin made in the reign of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty read: “there are twenty smelting furnaces in the south of Songshan Mountain”. At that time, there were 3,000 to 4,000 miners at its best, more than 30 mines. According to the records, “the output of metal is much, it piles up everywhere in the city”, and the Ming government set up a special institution in Phoenix Mountain, Huoyan Mountain and Tongchanggou which is 10 kilometers away from Baiyin city to administrate mining affairs. That is the reason why Baiyin gets its name.





Baiyin is an important base of nonferrous metal in China and the important base of energy recourses and chemical industries in Gansu province as a developing industrial city.





The total area of Baiyin is about 21,200 square kilometers, with a population of one million. Now Baiyin has jurisdiction over Baiyin District, Pingchuan District and three Counties (Jingyuan County, Jingtai County and Huining County).

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