- Jining District
Jining District (zh-sp|s=集宁区|p=Jíníng Qū) is an urban district that serves as the administrative seat of
Ulaan Chab , aprefecture-level city in the mid-western part ofInner Mongolia , China. It has an area of approximately 114,200km² and is in the southern foothills of theYinshan mountains . It has a population of roughly 200,000, including members of theMongol , Hui,Manchu ,Daur , Tibetan, Uyghur, Hmong, and Yi national minorities.Although Ulaan Chab is an administrative "city" and Jining an administrative "district", in reality Jining is a "de facto" city, while Ulaan Chab is an administrative division covering a much larger area. See
prefecture-level city for more information on this arrangement.Jining South Railway Station (集宁南站) serves as a railway intersection to the border town of
Erenhot to the north,Hohhot andBaotou to the west, and the mining cityDatong to the south.Jining is the seat of a
Roman catholic diocese.History
In 1675, the Jining area was placed under the administration of the Plain Yellow Banner of
Chahar province, and in 1750 was transferred toFengzhen City 's administration. In 1922, it was renamed Jining and became a municipality, and the following year acounty . In 2004,Ulaan Chab League, to which it is capital, is changed to aprefecture-level city , and Jining is correspondingly changed from acounty-level city to a district.Natural resources
The Jining area is a source of
limestone andturquoise .
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