Xiapu County
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Xiapu is a county in the municipal region of Ningde
Ningde
Ningde , also known as Mindong , is a prefecture-level city located along the northeastern coast of Fujian province, China. It borders Fuzhou to the south, Wenzhou City and Zhejiang province to the north, and Nanping City to the west.-Administration:...

, Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

. It has a stretch of East China Sea
East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1,249,000 km² or 750,000 square miles.-Geography:...

 coast, with many harbours and islands. It is bordered by Fuding City and Zherong County
Zherong County
Zherong County is a county of Fujian Province, China. It is under the administration of Ningde city....

 to the north, FuAn City and Ningde centre
Jiaocheng District
Jiaocheng is a district in the municipal region of Ningde, Fujian Province, PRC. Also called Ningde Shiqu , the district seats the municipality's executive, legislature and judiciary, together with its Communist Party and Public Security Bureaux.-Situation:Jiaocheng is bordered by Xiapu and...

 to the west, and—in Fuzhou
Fuzhou
Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong linguistic and cultural area....

 Municipality-- Luoyuan County
Luoyuan County
Luoyuan County is a county of Fujian Province, China. It is under the administration of Fuzhou city....

 to the south.
  • Area: 1716 km²
  • Population: 510,000
  • Postal code: 355100

Administration

The county executive, legislature and judiciary
Basic people's court
A basic people's court is a lowest level court in the Courts of General Jurisdiction in the People's Republic of China. According to the Organic Law of the People's Courts of the People's Republic of China, the basic people's courts handle the first instance cases at the local level.Basic people's...

 are in Songcheng Town (松城镇), together with the CPC
Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

 and PSB
Public Security Bureau
In the People's Republic of China, a public security bureau refers to the government offices while the smaller offices are called Police posts which are similar in concept to the Japanese Kōban system) present in each province and municipality that handles policing , public security, and...

 branches.

Xiapu has jurisdiction over 6 other towns (zhen, 镇) and over 7 townships (xiang, 乡), of which three are zoned Affirmative action
Affirmative action
Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.-Origins:The term...

-like for the native She people
She people
The She people are a Chinese ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China....

.

Towns

  • Sansha (三沙镇)
  • Yacheng (牙城镇)
  • XiNan(溪南镇)
  • Shajiang (沙江镇)
  • Xiahu (下浒镇)
  • Changchun (长春镇)

Townships

  • Boyang (柏洋乡)
  • Beibi (北壁乡)
  • Haido (海岛乡)
  • Zhouyang (州洋乡)
  • Yantian She-nation Ethnic Township (盐田畲族乡)
  • Shuimen She-nation Ethnic Township (水门畲族乡)
  • Chongru She-nation Ethnic Township (崇儒畲族乡)

Xiapu in the News

In 2009 August 9, Xiapu was where Typhoon Morakot made continental landfall. A million people had just been evacuated from vulnerable areas of this and surrounding counties.

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