Haiyan County, Qinghai
Haiyan County (Chinese: 海晏县; Tibetan: ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་། ) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, located on the northeast shore of Qinghai Lake. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Haiyan County 海晏县 · ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་། | |
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![]() Town of Xihai (西海镇) | |
![]() Location of Haiyan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai province | |
![]() ![]() Haiyan Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
Coordinates: 36°53′48″N 100°59′40″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Provinces of China | Qinghai |
Autonomous prefecture | Haibei |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Haiyan County, Qinghai | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 海晏县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 海晏縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan | ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Economy
A major nuclear research facility, Plant 221 (221厂), was established in 1958 at the location called Jinyintan (金银滩) in Haiyan County.[1]
References
- Where China Built Its Bomb, Dark Memories Haunt the Ruins, By CHRIS BUCKLEY and ADAM WU JAN. The New York Times, 20, 2018
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