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Encyclopedia > Daxing District

Daxing District (Simplified Chinese: 大兴区; Traditional Chinese: 大興區; Hanyu Pinyin: Dàxīng Qū) is situated at the suburb of south Beijing. Daxing District was upgraded from a county to a district with the approval from the State Council on April 30, 2001. Covering an area of 1,012 square kilometers,Daxing District is divided into nine towns and 18 townships with a population of 520,000. A flat plain district it is one of the satellite cities of Beijing. Panggezhuang in Daxing is famous for its watermelons. Image File history File links ChinaBeijingDaxing. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin (拼音, Pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... (help· info), a city in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...



edit County-level divisions of Beijing Forbidden City
Districts: Dongcheng | Xicheng | Chongwen | Xuanwu | Chaoyang | Haidian | Fengtai | Shijingshan
Mentougou | Fangshan | Tongzhou | Shunyi | Changping | Daxing | Huairou | Pinggu
Counties: Miyun | Yanqing
see also: Township-level divisions of Beijing

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Beijing Official Website International (63 words)
Daxing District was upgraded from a county to a district with the approval from the State Council on April 30, 2001.
Covering an area of 1,012 square kilometers,Daxing District is divided into nine towns and 18 townships with a population of 520,000.
A flat plain district it is one of the satellite cities of Beijing.
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