Qujing City
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Qujing 曲靖市 |
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| Prefecture-level city | |
Qujing in 2013. South Qilin Road.
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 Location of Qujing in Yunnan |
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| Coordinates: 25°29′N 103°48′E / 25.483°N 103.800°ECoordinates: 25°29′N 103°48′E / 25.483°N 103.800°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Admin HQ | Qilin |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 29,855 km2 (11,527 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,442 km2 (557 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,442 km2 (557 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,873 m (6,145 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,855,055 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 659,925 |
| • Urban density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 659,925 |
| • Metro density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 655000 |
| Area code(s) | 0874 |
| Website | http://www.qj.gov.cn/ |
Qujing (Chinese: ; pinyin: Qǔjìng) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Yunnan province of southwest China. It is an important industrial city, and is Yunnan's second largest city by population, after Kunming.
Its population is 5,855,055 according to the 2010 census, of whom 659,925 reside in the built up area. Within a few years, Zhanyi county will be part of this built up area, making an agglomeration of more than 1 million inhabitants.
Qujing is located in the east of Yunnan province, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) east of Kunming, the provincial capital. Like much of the central and eastern parts of the province, it is part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
Tempered by the low latitude and moderate elevation, Qujing has a mild subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb), with short, mild, dry winters, and warm, rainy summers. Frost may occur in winter but the days still generally warm up to around 15 °C (59 °F). During summer, a majority of the days features some rainfall, and daytime temperatures rise to 25 °C (77 °F). A great majority of the year's rainfall occurs from June to October.
Qujing is linked to Kunming by the National Highway 320. Drive time is about three hours. The transportation system in Qujing is well developed. You can access almost every corner of the city by way of the Kun Qu Freeway. Buses to Kunming depart from Qujing Bus Station every half hour, the trip takes about three hours. The bus station also provides transportation to Dali, Honghezhou and other destinations around Qujing. Taxi and buses are available in Qujing. The base rate of a taxi is RMB 5 for the first 3 km (1.9 mi).
Two train routes, Guizhou to Kunming and Nanning to Kunming, run through eight towns in Qujing each day. It takes one and one half hour to get from Qujing to Kunming. There is a plan for a speed train to run between Chengdu and Nanning by the year 2015, which will make the trip from Kunming<>Qujing only 30 minutes long.
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