Xinhua County
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Xinhua County
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|新化县}}}}
| other_name =
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 4176XX
| settlement_type = County
| image_skyline = XinHua.JPG
| image_caption = Tianhua South Road ({{lang|zh-hans|天华南路}})
| map_caption = Location of Xinhua County within Loudi
| pushpin_map = China Hunan
| pushpin_label = Xinhua
| pushpin_label_position =
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Hunan
| pushpin_mapsize =
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = People's Republic of China
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Hunan
| subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city
| subdivision_name2 = Loudi
| area_footnotes = Loudi City Land Use Plan (2006–20)/{{zh|s=《娄底市土地利用总体规划（2006-2020年）》|labels=no}}.{{in lang|zh}} Accessed 8 July 2014.
| area_total_km2 = 3634.98
| population_total = 1110910
| population_as_of = 2010
| population_density_km2 = auto
| coordinates_footnotes = {{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Xinhua,+Loudi,+Hunan,+China,+417600/@27.7368754,111.3083499,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x369ed8639419aa33:0x3580536e057f8e4b |title=Xinhua|access-date=2014-07-02}}
| coor_pinpoint =
| coordinates = {{coord|27.737|111.308|region:CN-43|format=dms|display=it}}
| elevation_ft =
| elevation_m =
| timezone = China Standard
| utc_offset = +8
| website =
| image_map = ChinaLoudiXinhua.png
}}
Xinhua County ({{zh|s=新化县|p=Xīnhuà Xiàn}}) is a county and the fourth-most populous county-level division in the province of Hunan, China. It is under the administration of Loudi City.
Located along the middle reaches of the Zi River, it covers 3,635 square kilometers and has a population of 1,196,538 (November 2020). Xinhua shares borders with Lengshuijiang, Lianyuan, Xinshao, Xupu and Longhui counties and cities. As a county, it was founded in 1072 (Northern Song dynasty) and is now under jurisdiction of the Loudi City, subdivided into 7 townships and 19 towns, with Shangmei as the county seat.
The economy of Xinhua County is largely agricultural, with 741 thousand of Xinhua County's population of 1.2 million working in agriculture. Other than agriculture, industries include machinery, electronics, ceramics, building materials, metallurgy, coal, chemical, food, paper, bamboo and wood processing. In recent years, Xinhua County's economy has grown quite a lot.{{Cite web|title=湖南省娄底市新化县地名介绍|url=http://www.tcmap.com.cn/hunan/xinhua.html|access-date=2021-04-03|website=www.tcmap.com.cn}}{{Cite web|title=新化介绍-人口民族|url=https://xinhua.gov.cn/xinhua/mlxh/xhgk/rkmz/list_time.shtml}}
In 2011, media attention was attracted by a construction project started by the county's government. In the hope of attracting tourists, the officials wanted to build a lavish temple (Xiongshan Si - {{zh|c=熊山寺 |l=Bear Mountain Temple|labels=no}}), diverting funds from more essential projects.[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-temple-idUSTRE78P2DC20110926 Poor Chinese county used relief fund to build temple]. Reuters, 2011-09-26[http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2011/09-26/3354902.shtml 湖南新化回应媒体曝“强扣水利款建旅游区”事宜] (Hunan's Xinhua [County] responds to media's claims of the diversion of irrigation funds to the construction of a tourist area).
Climate
{{Weather box
| width = auto
| metric first = y
| single line = y
|collapsed = Y
| location = Xinhua, elevation {{convert|212|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
|Jan high C = 9.0
|Feb high C = 11.7
|Mar high C = 16.2
|Apr high C = 22.6
|May high C = 26.9
|Jun high C = 29.8
|Jul high C = 33.0
|Aug high C = 32.6
|Sep high C = 28.7
|Oct high C = 23.3
|Nov high C = 17.9
|Dec high C = 11.9
|Jan mean C = 5.3
|Feb mean C = 7.7
|Mar mean C = 11.7
|Apr mean C = 17.6
|May mean C = 22.0
|Jun mean C = 25.3
|Jul mean C = 28.2
|Aug mean C = 27.4
|Sep mean C = 23.6
|Oct mean C = 18.4
|Nov mean C = 13.0
|Dec mean C = 7.6
|Jan low C = 2.8
|Feb low C = 4.9
|Mar low C = 8.6
|Apr low C = 14.0
|May low C = 18.4
|Jun low C = 22.2
|Jul low C = 24.7
|Aug low C = 24.0
|Sep low C = 20.1
|Oct low C = 14.9
|Nov low C = 9.6
|Dec low C = 4.5
| Jan record high C = 25.7
| Jan record low C = -5.8
| Feb record high C = 30.1
| Feb record low C = -3.9
| Mar record high C = 33.2
| Mar record low C = -1.2
| Apr record high C = 35.9
| Apr record low C = 3.1
| May record high C = 36.5
| May record low C = 8.4
| Jun record high C = 37.5
| Jun record low C = 13.5
| Jul record high C = 39.1
| Jul record low C = 17.5
| Aug record high C = 39.8
| Aug record low C = 16.8
| Sep record high C = 38.5
| Sep record low C = 12.2
| Oct record high C = 35.7
| Oct record low C = 3.7
| Nov record high C = 32.0
| Nov record low C = -1.3
| Dec record high C = 24.1
| Dec record low C = -8.5
| year high C =
| year low C =
| year high F =
| year low F =
| precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 69.8
|Feb precipitation mm = 74.9
|Mar precipitation mm = 132.0
|Apr precipitation mm = 164.8
|May precipitation mm = 203.5
|Jun precipitation mm = 255.9
|Jul precipitation mm = 197.9
|Aug precipitation mm = 142.2
|Sep precipitation mm = 81.2
|Oct precipitation mm = 76.3
|Nov precipitation mm = 73.4
|Dec precipitation mm = 50.5
|Jan humidity = 77
|Feb humidity = 77
|Mar humidity = 78
|Apr humidity = 78
|May humidity = 78
|Jun humidity = 81
|Jul humidity = 76
|Aug humidity = 77
|Sep humidity = 77
|Oct humidity = 76
|Nov humidity = 76
|Dec humidity = 74
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 13.8
|Feb precipitation days = 14.2
|Mar precipitation days = 17.7
|Apr precipitation days = 17.3
|May precipitation days = 16.4
|Jun precipitation days = 16.7
|Jul precipitation days = 12.8
|Aug precipitation days = 12.6
|Sep precipitation days = 9.8
|Oct precipitation days = 10.4
|Nov precipitation days = 10.7
|Dec precipitation days = 11.2
|year precipitation days =
|Jan sun = 55.7
|Feb sun = 56.9
|Mar sun = 76.8
|Apr sun = 102.8
|May sun = 126.9
|Jun sun = 124.1
|Jul sun = 200.6
|Aug sun = 184.5
|Sep sun = 135.1
|Oct sun = 115.6
|Nov sun = 102.7
|Dec sun = 84.0
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 17
| Feb percentsun = 18
| Mar percentsun = 21
| Apr percentsun = 27
| May percentsun = 30
| Jun percentsun = 30
| Jul percentsun = 48
| Aug percentsun = 46
| Sep percentsun = 37
| Oct percentsun = 33
| Nov percentsun = 32
| Dec percentsun = 26
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 6.0
|Feb snow days = 3.0
|Mar snow days = 1.1
|Apr snow days = 0
|May snow days = 0
|Jun snow days = 0
|Jul snow days = 0
|Aug snow days = 0
|Sep snow days = 0
|Oct snow days = 0
|Nov snow days = 0.2
|Dec snow days = 2.0
|year snow days =
|source 1 = China Meteorological Administration{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=11 June 2023}}
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Notable people
- He Jiankui, the key figure in the genetically-edited human embryo He Jiankui affair was born here.
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Xinhua County}}
{{Wiktionary|Xinhua}}
{{Divisions of Xinhua County}}
{{County-level divisions of Hunan}}
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Category:County-level divisions of Hunan
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