Brief introduction of Huating county

Huating County belongs to Pingliang City, Gansu Province, and is named after Huajian Mountain Pavilion at the foot of Huangfu Mountain. Located in the east of Gansu Province, at the east foot of Guanshan Mountain, at the intersection of Gansu, Shaanxi and Ningxia provinces, it is adjacent to Chongxin County in the east, Zhuanglang County and Jingyuan County in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the west, Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County and Longxian County in Shaanxi Province in the south and Kongtong District in Pingliang City in the north. It has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 5 townships (2 ethnic townships), 1 street, 1 provincial industrial park, 1 administrative village and 27 communities. Total area 1 183 km2, population 194400 (20 13). 123 Huating, known as the "porcelain capital of coal city", is the only way of the ancient Silk Road, the core area and industrial town of the integrated industrial development of coal, electricity, chemistry and transportation in Gansu Province, one of the three coal-producing bases in China and northwest China, and also an important energy supply and freight distribution base in Longdong. Huating is the only county and city in Gansu province that has entered the top 100 counties in western China. Huating Quzi Opera is the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in China. Ankou Kiln in Ankou Town in Ming Dynasty was listed as a national famous kiln in the name of "Longshang Kiln".