Tongren

Tongren
铜仁市
Prefecture-level city

Location of Tongren City in Guizhou and the PRC
Coordinates: 27°43′N 109°11′E / 27.717°N 109.183°E / 27.717; 109.183
Country People's Republic of China
Province Guizhou
Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code(s) 856
ISO 3166 code CN-GZ-06

Tongren (simplified Chinese: 铜仁; traditional Chinese: 銅仁; pinyin: Tóngrén) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, located within a tobacco planting and crop agricultural area. Tongren was known as Tongren Prefecture (铜仁地区) until November 2011, when it was converted into a prefecture-level city.[1]

Education

Economy

In July 2018, the Tongren Transportation & Tourism Investment Group announced a joint venture with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to construct a Hyperloop track in Tongren, along with an industrial research park.[2]

Administrative divisions

Tongren comprises 2 districts, 4 counties, and 4 autonomous counties.

Map
Blue - miao. Brown- tujia. red - dong


References

  1. 国务院批复同意撤销铜仁地区设立地级铜仁市 (in Chinese). 7 November 2011. Archived from the original on 5 December 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
  2. Zhao, Runhua (Jul 19, 2018). "Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to build Hyperloop in Southwest China with local partner". TechNode. Retrieved 20 July 2018.

Coordinates: 27°43′N 109°11′E / 27.717°N 109.183°E / 27.717; 109.183


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