Tanghe County
| Tanghe County | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 唐河縣 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 唐河县 | ||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Tánghé xiàn | ||||||||
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Tanghe County is administered by Nanyang, Henan, People's Republic of China. Its ancient name was Tangzhou (唐州).
The county consists of 3 subdistrict offices, 12 towns, 7 townships, and 525 administrative villages (or community), with the population being approximately 1,430,000 and total area being 2,512 square kilometres (970 sq mi). Tanghe has more than 350,000 citizens in those 3 subdistrict offices (include Binhe, Wenfeng and Xingtang), and the county government is located in the Binhe subdistrict office. The urban area expands very quickly, especially westwards, under the background of estate boom across China. The local economy is mainly based on agriculture, including wheat, cotton, pears. The investment and support from the Tanghers who work out of Tanghe is very important to the local economy.
History
Tanghe has very long history; the written history can be traced back to Zhou dynasty.
Transport
- Tanghe Railway Station Nanjing–Xi'an Railway goes through the southern suburb of Tanghe.
- G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway goes through the northern suburb of the town.
- China National Highway [G312], [G328] and [G234] go through the county.
- Henan Provincial Road [S233], [S332], [S334] and [S530] go through the towns.
- Nanyang Jiangying Airport is about 40 km away from Tanghe city.
- Tanghe River Shipping has been included in the national twelfth Five-Year Development Plan.
Public transportation
Connections between Tanghe city and all its towns are provided by buses.
Notable residents
- Feng Youlan (1895.12.04 — 1990.11.26), Philosopher. Graduate from Peking University in 1918. History of Chinese Philosophy, A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy, A New History of Chinese Philosophy, Six Books of Zhen and Yuan as his representatives.
- Feng Jinglan (1898.3.9 — 1976.9.29), geologist. Graduate from Colorado School of Mines in 1921. A professor of Beijing Institute of Geology (The original name of the China University of Geosciences).
- Feng Yuanjun (1900 — 1974), female, a famous writer.
- Li Ji (1922.8.16 — 1980), poet.
- Zhang Xingjiang (1907 — 1936), revolutionary martyrs.
- Zhang Fengyi (1956.9.1 — ), a famous actor.
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32°43′47″N 112°50′05″E / 32.72972°N 112.83472°E
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