Zhenping County, Henan
Zhenping County (simplified Chinese: 镇平县; traditional Chinese: 鎮平縣; pinyin: Zhènpíng Xiàn) is a county in the southwest of Henan province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Nanyang.
Introduction
Zhenping was known in ancient times as Nieyang. It has a long history of jade carving for more than 4,000 years, and it is known as the jade capital of China. It is one of the birthplaces of Chinese jade culture. Jin Laizong Zhengda was set up in Zhenping County for three years (1226 AD). Yuan Haowen, a famous poet in the Jinyuan period, was the first county magistrate in Zhenping. Zhenping was also the hometown of the modern general Peng Xuefeng.
Administrative divisions
As 2012, this county is divided to 3 subdistricts, 11 towns, 7 townships and 1 ethnic township.[1]
- Subdistricts
- Nieyang Subdistrict (涅阳街道)
- Xuefeng Subdistrict (雪枫街道)
- Yudu Subdistrict (玉都街道)
- Towns
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- Townships
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- Ethnic townships
- Guozhuang Hui Township (郭庄回族乡)
Climate
| Climate data for Zhenping (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 21.8 (71.2) |
22.9 (73.2) |
27.9 (82.2) |
34.4 (93.9) |
39.8 (103.6) |
40.4 (104.7) |
38.7 (101.7) |
38.4 (101.1) |
38.6 (101.5) |
33.5 (92.3) |
27.9 (82.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
40.4 (104.7) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 6.8 (44.2) |
9.8 (49.6) |
14.5 (58.1) |
21.4 (70.5) |
26.9 (80.4) |
31.2 (88.2) |
31.2 (88.2) |
30.2 (86.4) |
26.8 (80.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
15.2 (59.4) |
9.0 (48.2) |
20.4 (68.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.1 (34.0) |
3.9 (39.0) |
8.5 (47.3) |
15.2 (59.4) |
20.8 (69.4) |
25.5 (77.9) |
26.8 (80.2) |
25.7 (78.3) |
21.5 (70.7) |
16.0 (60.8) |
9.1 (48.4) |
3.0 (37.4) |
14.8 (58.6) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −3.3 (26.1) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
3.2 (37.8) |
9.0 (48.2) |
14.7 (58.5) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.0 (73.4) |
21.7 (71.1) |
17.1 (62.8) |
11.1 (52.0) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
9.9 (49.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −14.6 (5.7) |
−11.9 (10.6) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
1.2 (34.2) |
10.6 (51.1) |
16.5 (61.7) |
13.3 (55.9) |
7.2 (45.0) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 10.4 (0.41) |
13.0 (0.51) |
28.2 (1.11) |
39.9 (1.57) |
72.9 (2.87) |
104.1 (4.10) |
163.6 (6.44) |
122.7 (4.83) |
66.4 (2.61) |
48.7 (1.92) |
26.2 (1.03) |
10.4 (0.41) |
706.5 (27.81) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 68 | 66 | 71 | 74 | 71 | 69 | 81 | 83 | 77 | 72 | 72 | 69 | 73 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[2] | |||||||||||||
Economy
The Henan Kangyuan Softshell Turtle Farm (河南省南阳镇平县康苑鳖业有限公司), located in Zhenping County's Jiasong Town is one of China's largest facilities for raising the Yellow River Turtle (黄河鳖), a variety of the Chinese softshell turtle. The farm, which occupies 600 mu (100 acres) of land and water, raises some 6 million of those creatures per year.[3][4]
Notes
- 安阳市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org (in Chinese). XZQH. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
- 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- 镇平县康苑鳖业有限责任公司.
- 河南省镇平县康苑形成黄河中华鳖规模化生产能力.Archived June 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. In this report, the farm is said to be the largest Chinese softshell turtle farms north of the Yangtze River.