Siping (city)
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Siping 四平市 |
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Siping martyr cenotaph, in Siping City, Jilin province, China.
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 Siping (red) in Jilin (orange) |
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 Siping
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| Coordinates: 43°10′N 124°22′E / 43.167°N 124.367°ECoordinates: 43°10′N 124°22′E / 43.167°N 124.367°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Jilin |
| County-level divisions | 7 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture-level city |
| • CPC Siping Secretary | LIu Xijie (刘喜杰) |
| • Mayor | Shi Guoxiang (石国祥) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 14,323 km2 (5,530 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 164 m (538 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 3,386,325 |
| • Density | 240/km2 (610/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 613,837 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 136000 |
| Area code(s) | 0434 |
| GDP | ¥320.66 billion (2006) |
| License Plate Prefix | 吉C |
| ISO 3166-2 | cn-22-03 |
| Major Nationalities | Han - 95.48% |
| Website | http://www.siping.gov.cn/ |
Siping (Chinese: 四平; pinyin: Sìpíng), formerly Ssupingkai (Chinese: 四平街; pinyin: Sìpíngjiē), is a prefecture-level city in the west of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. Located in the southwestern part of the province, in the middle of the Songliao Plain and at the intersection of Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, Siping covers an area of 14,323 km2 (5,530 sq mi). At the 2010 census, Siping has a total population of 3,386,325 while the urban population is 613,837.
Siping's history can be stretched to 3000 years ago during Shang Dynasty. The Kingdom of Yan Ruins indicate that the Han Chinese People started moving into Northeast region of China during the Spring and Autumn period. Ancient ethnic tribes such as the Fuyu, the Goguryeo, the Khitans, the Jurchen, the Mongols, the Manchus, and Koreans have left behind cultural artifacts, including Hanzhou, Xinzhou, and the Yehe Tribe Cultural Artifacts .
Yehe Town in Siping is also the hometown of two empresses of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Dowager Longyu.
However, Siping was a place of little importance until the completion of the railway between Changchun and the port of Dalian in 1902. With a rapidly growing population, Siping became a regional commercial center. After 1907, Siping's economy experienced steady growth under the administration of the South Manchuria Railway Company. The construction of a railway linked to Baicheng in northwestern Jilin Province was completed in 1923, while a railway running south to Tonghua and to Korean Peninsula was built in 1939. A new town was built after 1921, going by the name Ssupingkai. After 1932, under the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, some agriculture-based industry including brewing, oil pressing and flour milling grew up. In the latter part of World War II, the Japanese completed a project in the construction of a refinery for the production of synthetic petroleum from coal.
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