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Wafangdian

Wafangdian
瓦房店市
County-level city
Wafangdian Railway Station
Wafangdian Railway Station
Wafangdian is located in Liaoning
Wafangdian
Wafangdian
Location in Liaoning
Coordinates: 39°37′52″N 121°58′26″E / 39.631°N 121.974°E / 39.631; 121.974Coordinates: 39°37′52″N 121°58′26″E / 39.631°N 121.974°E / 39.631; 121.974
Country  China
Province Liaoning
Sub-provincial city Dalian
Seat No. 1 Century Square (世纪广场1号)
Area
 • Total 3,576.40 km2 (1,380.86 sq mi)
Elevation 121 m (397 ft)
Population (2010)
 • Total 942,197
 • Density 260/km2 (680/sq mi)
Time zone China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code 116300
Dalian district map
GDP 51.1 billion RMB (7.87 billion USD)
GDP per capita 48874 RMB (7526 USD)
GDP annual growth rate 22.6%
Division code 210281
Website dlwfd.gov.cn

Wafangdian (Chinese: 瓦房店; pinyin: Wǎfángdiàn), formerly Fuxian or Fu County (Chinese: 复县), is one of the two "northern county-level cities", the other being Zhuanghe, under the administration of Dalian, located in the south of Liaoning province, China. The city is famous for its ball bearing industry. Wafangdian Bearing Factory is the largest bearing manufacturer in Asia and was initially built by the Japanese during World War II. Its area is 3,576.40 square kilometres (1,380.86 sq mi) and its permanent population as of 2010 is 942,197, compared to 1,024,876 registered with hukou permits. The city borders the prefecture-level city of Yingkou to the northeast.

Wafangdian City is located in the southwest of the Liaodong Peninsula, with a total area of 3,793 square kilometres (1,464 sq mi) and a population of around 1.02 million. There are rich mines here. Wafangdian is a newly developed city of diamond in the East and its deposits of diamond account for 54% of the national proven diamond deposits. The deposits of the limestone reach over 400,000,000 cubic metres. Wafangdian is famous for bearings and apples in China. Wafangdian has solid industry base, fast—developing agriculture, convenient transportation and telecommunications.

Wafangdian has a four-season, monsoon-influenced, humid continental climate (Köppen Dwa), with long, cold, windy but dry winters, and humid and very warm summers. The area experiences a seasonal delay due to the influence of the nearby ocean, which also helps temper the summers. In winter, as the Liaodong Bay is typically frozen north of the urban area of Dalian, the moderating effects of that body of water are minimised, as the Siberian high often causes winds to blow from the northwest: the monthly daily average temperature in January is −7.1 °C (19.2 °F), as compared to −3.9 °C (25.0 °F) in downtown Dalian. For Wafangdian, the same figure in July is 23.8 °C (74.8 °F). The annual mean temperature is 9.59 °C (49.3 °F). Close to half of the annual precipitation falls in July and August alone. The frost-free period is 165−185 days per annum.


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