:Xuancheng

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Archeological digs in Xuancheng have found pottery and stoneware indicative of the Liangzhu Culture.

During the Spring and Autumn period, the area belonged to the State of Wu, although, upon the decline of Wu, the area was also ruled by the State of Chu and the State of Yue, respectively.

Under the Qin dynasty, the area was administered as Zhang Commandery ({{Lang-zh|c=鄣郡}}), which became the {{Interlanguage link|Danyang Commandery|zh|丹杨郡}} in 109 BCE, under the Western Han dynasty.{{Cite web|date=2021-02-18|title=|script-title=zh:宣城概况|trans-title=Xuancheng Overview|url=https://www.xuancheng.gov.cn/About/show/652042.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210503174053/https://www.xuancheng.gov.cn/About/show/652042.html|archive-date=2021-05-03|access-date=2021-05-03|publisher=Xuancheng Municipal People's Government|language=zh}} During the Danyang Commandery, Wanling ({{Lang-zh|c=宛陵}}, presently Xuanzhou District, the site of the Xuancheng Municipal Government) served as the administrative center. Xuanzhou has been the political, economic and cultural center of administration since then.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} In 281 CE, {{Interlanguage link|Xuancheng Commandery|zh|宣城郡}} was established.

Xuancheng became a prefecture-level city in 2000.

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Its terrain is varied and complicated, basically sloping downward from the south to the north. Its landform can be approximately divided into five types: mountain, hill, valley and basin, hillock and plain. The south and southeast regions belong to ranges of Tianmu Mountain, while the southwest and west regions are respectively parts of ranges of Mt. Huangshan and Mt. Jiuhua. {{Interlanguage link|Qingliang Peak|zh|清凉峰}} is also located within Xuancheng. 59.34% of the city's area is forested.

The city has a subtropical humid monsoon climate, with four distinct seasons and abundant precipitation. Of the four seasons, summer is the longest. Its annual average temperature falls round 15.6C (60.1F). Most of the rainfall occurs in summer. The plum rain season lasts from mid-June to early July.[http://www.anhui.travel/en/destination/html/city_17.html Travel in Anhui]

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Xuancheng City administers seven county-level divisions, including one district, two county-level cities and five counties.

• Xuanzhou District ({{lang|zh-hans|宣州区}})
• Ningguo City ({{lang|zh-hans|宁国市}})
• Guangde City ({{lang|zh-hans|广德市}})
• Langxi County ({{lang|zh-hans|郎溪县}})
• Jing County ({{lang|zh-hans|泾县}})
• Jixi County ({{lang|zh-hans|绩溪县}})
• Jingde County ({{lang|zh-hans|旌德县}})

These are further divided into 115 township-level divisions, including 61 towns, 44 townships and ten subdistricts.

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In Xuancheng, Jianghuai Mandarin and Wu Chinese are spoken as well as Standard Mandarin.

Xuancheng is a city with 2,000 years of history and cultural relics. It has a profound cultural heritage and rich tourism resources. There are many scenic areas, such as the Anhui Research Center for Chinese Alligator Reproduction (ARCCAR), which is a large captive breeding base for the endangered Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis). There are also four unique scenes – Taiji Cave, Peach Blossom Pool, Jing Ting Mountain, Zhangshan Canyon. Other attractions include cultural sites of the New Fourth Army, the Ancestral Hall of the Hu Family in Jixi (the former residence of Hu Shih), the Jiang's Village in Jingde, and so on. Since reform and opening up, the city has achieved a lot of progress and is accelerating the development of municipal services, transport, tourism and other infrastructural facilities. Xuancheng is a city with pleasant environments of living, enterprising, and sightseeing which is on the rise. The Ningguo Stadium is located in the city. The 12,000-capacity stadium is used mainly for association football matches.

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Its population was 2,500,063 as of 2020 Chinese census whom 774,332 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Xuanzhou District.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-15 |title=Media Interpretation of the Communiqu é of the Seventh National Population Census in Xuancheng City |url=https://www.guangde.gov.cn/OpennessContent/show/2146708.html |website=Guangde Municipal People's Government}}

The city is home to 45 ethnic minorities, whose population totals about 13,000 people.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-29|title=|script-title=zh:人口民族|trans-title=Population and Ethnicity|url=https://www.xuancheng.gov.cn/About/showList/6883/page_1.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210503181105/https://www.xuancheng.gov.cn/About/showList/6883/page_1.html|archive-date=2021-05-03|access-date=2021-05-03|publisher=Xuancheng Municipal People's Government|language=zh}} Xuancheng administers one ethnic township: {{Interlanguage link|Yunti She Ethnic Township|zh|云梯畲族乡}}. Xuancheng also administers two ethnic villages: Hucun Hui Ethnic Village ({{Lang-zh|c=胡村回族村}}) in {{Interlanguage link|Shencun, Xuancheng|lt=Shencun|zh|沈村镇}}, Xuanzhou District, and Qianqiu She Ethnic Village ({{Lang-zh|c=千秋畲族村}}) in Yunti She Ethnic Township, Ningguo.

As of 2020, the city's gross domestic product is estimated at ¥160.75 billion,{{Cite web|date=2021-03-29|title=|script-title=zh:经济发展|trans-title=Economic Development|url=https://www.xuancheng.gov.cn/About/showList/6885/page_1.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210503175131/https://www.xuancheng.gov.cn/About/showList/6885/page_1.html|archive-date=2021-05-03|access-date=2021-05-03|publisher=Xuancheng Municipal People's Government|language=zh}} its inflation rate was 2.4%, and its urban unemployment rate was 2.7%. Total consumer retail sales in 2020 reached ¥62.66 billion, and foreign trade totaled ¥13.44 billion.

Xuancheng's per capita disposable income is ¥30,746 as of 2020, and stood at ¥42,134 for urban residents, and ¥18,928 for rural residents.

Xuancheng's major industrial products include beverages, cloth, concrete, electronics components, fertilizer, paper and cardboard.

Xuancheng is known for its production of high quality Xuan paper ({{Lang-zh|s=宣纸|t=宣紙}}), Xuan writing brushes ({{Lang-zh|c=|s=宣笔|t=宣筆}}), and Xuan ink stones ({{Lang-zh|s=宣砚|t=宣硯}}), all of which are used in traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} These products make up a large proportion of the city's exports.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

• Hu Shih (1891–1962): philosopher, essayist and diplomat, one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement, former president of Peking University (in 1939 Hu Shih was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature)
• Wang Jiaxiang (1906–1974): the first Chinese Ambassador to Soviet Union after the establishment of People's Republic of China
• Wu Zuoren (1908–1997): painter, former principal of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts
• Ren Xinmin (1915–2017): aerospace engineer and a specialist in astronautics and liquid rocket engine technology
• Hu Jintao (1942– ): former General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China
• Mei Yaochen (1002–1060), a major poet of the Northern Song dynasty

• Hefei University of Technology Xuancheng Campus
• Xuancheng High School
• Xuancheng Vocational & Technical college

Xuancheng is served by the Anhui–Jiangxi Railway and Beijing–Taipei High-Speed Rail Corridor.

• Xuan paper

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{{Wiktionary|Xuancheng}}

• [http://www.xuancheng.gov.cn Xuancheng Government website] (in Simplified Chinese)

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