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21-579: Surrounded on three sides by water, Yuzhong is effectively a peninsula between the Jialing and Yangtze Rivers . Due to the limited space, its hilly nature, and the fact that it is the main central business district for Chongqing, Yuzhong contains some of the tallest skyscrapers in China and is the most densely populated district in the municipality. During the Second Sino-Japanese War ,

42-570: A county in the southeastern part of this autonomous prefecture. 20,258 people were killed, 45,079 injured, 7,696 missing in the prefecture as of June 6, 2008. In 2009, the town of Ngaba in Ngawa prefecture became the " self-immolation capital of the world," in the words of the New York Times." From 2009 to 2019, more than 60 of Tibet's total 156 self-immolations occurred in Ngaba. By 2020,

63-453: Is 公正诚朴 (Selflessness, Justice, Honesty and Simplicity). Yuzhong is currently served by four metro lines operated by Chongqing Rail Transit : 29°33′38″N 106°34′24″E  /  29.560454°N 106.573400°E  / 29.560454; 106.573400 This Chongqing location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jialing River The Jialing River , formerly known by numerous other names ,

84-702: Is a major tributary of the Yangtze River in the Sichuan Basin . It is named after the Jialing Valley in Feng County , Shaanxi through which it flows. The Jialing River's most notable characteristic was formerly its pellucid green waters. It is also notable for its sinuous course in its lower reaches. From Zhangwang Miao (Temple of Zhangfei) in Langzhong to the mouth, the distance as

105-720: Is also known as Gyalrong. Gyalrong people speak a Qiangic language known as Gyalrong language . The source of the Min River and its tributary Dadu River are to be found in Ngawa. As of 2013 , the prefecture's population was 919,987 inhabitants at a density of 10.91 per km : Major languages spoken in Aba Prefecture include Tibetan , Mandarin Chinese and many vernaculars of the Qiangic languages which vary from county to county: In April 2020, classroom instruction

126-487: Is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan , bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam , and it has an area of 83,201 km (32,124 sq mi). The population was 895,200 by 2022. The county of Wenchuan in Ngawa is the site of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , in which over 20,000 of its residents died and 40,000 were injured. During

147-703: The Tang -era artist Wu Daozi . During the Kaiyuan Era of the Emperor Xuanzong , Wu was commissioned to depict the course of the Jialing and sent to Sichuan to travel its length for the work. Supposedly, he returned to the imperial palace and completed it in a single day from memory. It is sometimes added that his technique was foiled by Li Sixun , who accompanied him and followed the traditional practice of working slowly from numerous prepared sketches. To

168-793: The Jialing River, however, can be traced to a source in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture , Sichuan and the entire river is 1,345 kilometres (836 mi) long. This source is located at the head of the Baozuo River , considered a tributary of the Bailong River , itself the primary tributary and main stem of the Jialing River system. The branches named Jialing and Bailong meet in Guangyuan in Sichuan and continue as

189-698: The Jialing in Shaanxi, while both the Fu and the Qu join the Jialing's respective right and left banks in Hechuan , Chongqing. The cities along the Jialing's course include Tianshui , Baoji , Longnan , Guangyuan , Langzhong , Nanchong , and Chongqing . Cities found within the Jialing's basin and along its tributaries include Tianshui , Baoji , Longnan , Longnan , Mianyang , Suining , Bazhong , Wanyuan , Dazhou , and Guang'an . A total of 151 species of fish inhabit

210-751: The Jialing to the Yangtze. The river reaches the floor of the Sichuan Basin at Langzhong and continues in a sinuous route into Chongqing and its junction with the Yangtze River . Besides the Bailong River which forms a portion of the main stem, the largest tributaries of the Jialing River include the Xihan River , the Fu River (also known as Sui He), and the Qu River . The Xihan meets

231-738: The Jialing. Following the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the river was repeatedly dredged and straightened until it was navigable throughout the year by the early 1970s. 29°34′16″N 106°34′52″E  /  29.5711°N 106.581°E  / 29.5711; 106.581 Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture , also known as Aba ( Tibetan : རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་དང་ཆང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ། , Wylie : rnga ba bod rigs cha'ang rigs rang skyong khul ; Qiang : Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea ; simplified Chinese : 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 ; traditional Chinese : 阿壩藏族羌族自治州 ),

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252-556: The crow flies is 223 kilometres (139 mi). However the river itself travels 680 kilometres (420 mi). The most tortuous part of its course is between Nanchong and Wusheng County . The name Jialing did not come into general use until the Tang Dynasty . Before that, it was generally known as the Ba , although it also appears as the Lang and Yu as well. In the 19th century, it

273-563: The domestic financial institutions in Chongqing, as well as two-thirds of Chongqing's foreign banks and insurance agencies. Three-quarters of the world's top 500 enterprises in Chongqing and many foreign consular offices are also located here. Chongqing Bashu Secondary School , once called Bashu Middle School (巴蜀中学) is a secondary school located in the Huanghuayuan area. Founded in 1933, it educates students aged 12–18. Its motto

294-402: The extent that it is grounded in a real event, however, it probably only reflects Wu's speed of execution and not a lack of reliance on sketches. Around 1880, four out of Chongqing 's 24 shipping guilds were concerned with shipping along the Jialing. Chongqing , Lingshi , Lezhi , and Hechuan all developed shipyards. In the 1920s, five of Chongqing's eight ferry guilds plied routes across

315-466: The reign of Tibet 's king Trisong Deutsen in the 8th century, the Gyalrong area was visited by the great translator Vairotsana . In 1410 Je Tsongkhapa 's student Tshakho Ngawang Tapa established the first Tibetan Buddhist Gelug school monastery in the area, called "Gyalrong". In contemporary history, most of Ngawa was under the 16th Administrative Prefecture of Szechwan ( 四川省第十六行政督察區 ), which

336-688: The relocated headquarters of the Nationalist Government were located in Yuzhong. Yuzhong District is the economic center of Chongqing. In 2015, the region's GDP reached 95.8 billion Yuan , the per capita GDP reached 147,524 Yuan , retail sales reached 141.6 billion Yuan. The number of commercial banks in the district and municipal financial institutions reached 18, including HSBC , Standard Chartered , and Bank of East Asia . The largest western China commercial area, Jiefangbei central business district, has brought together 90 percent of

357-517: The river, of which 51 species are endemic to the Yangtze River basin. The Han and Jialing basins were the heartland of the ancient state of Ba , whose major cities were located at the sites of their tributaries' confluences. The Jialing assumed greater importance when Chu expanded up the Han during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The Jialing figures in one of the legends surrounding

378-459: The town's entrances were barricaded and surveillance cameras installed, with some 50,000 security personnel for the town's population of 15,000. In 2008, Aba county was stripped of its internet connections. Internet access in the prefecture remains severely restricted as of 2013. Most of the prefecture lies in the Tibetan cultural and historical region of Amdo . The west, and part of Kardze ,

399-568: Was established by the Republic of China (ROC). The People's Republic of China defeated ROC troops in this area during Chinese Civil war and subsequently established a Tibetan autonomous prefecture by late 1952. It was renamed Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in 1956 and Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in 1987. On May 12, 2008, a major earthquake occurred in Wenchuan County ( Tibetan : ལུང་དགུ་ , Wylie : lung dgu ),

420-729: Was known by the Sichuanese as the Small or Little River , by comparison with the Jinsha and Yangtze . The source of the Jialing, in name, is in the Jialin, which means "the tomb of Jia (嘉陵)" in Chinese. Jia (赵代王嘉) was the last king of State Zhao ( 赵国 ), who was kidnapped to State Qin (now called Tianshui , Gansu Province, 甘肃省 天水市 ) after Qin defeated Zhao. The river briefly flows through Gansu before reentering Shaanxi and then crossing south into Sichuan . The longest stem of

441-486: Was switched from Tibetan to Mandarin Chinese in Ngaba. The region is composed of one county-level city and twelve counties : Though situated within Wenchuan County , Wolong National Nature Reserve and Wolong Special Administrative Region are administered separately by the Forestry Department of Sichuan . The prefecture is served by Hongyuan Airport in the west and Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport in

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