Hanyuan County

Hanyuan County (simplified Chinese: 汉源县; traditional Chinese: 漢源縣; pinyin: Hànyuán Xiàn) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Ya'an city. The principal town is Shirong. The Pubugou Hydropower Station in the county has caused displacement problems for thousands of villagers, and in 2004 some 20,000 villagers protested against it.[1][2]

Hanyuan County

汉源县
County
Location of Hanyuan County (red) in Ya'an City (yellow) and Sichuan province
Hanyuan
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Coordinates: 29.344°N 102.652°E / 29.344; 102.652
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceSichuan
Prefecture-level cityYa'an
Area
  Total2,349 km2 (907 sq mi)
Population
 (2004)
350,000
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Climate

Light green -Yi. Red -Tibetan

References

  1. Sun, Jiadong.; Liu, Jingnan.; Yang, Yuanxi.; Fan, Shiwei (2012). China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2012 Proceedings: The 3rd China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2012) Guangzhou, China, May 15-19, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 306. ISBN 978-3-642-29187-6. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. Wells-Dang, Andrew (4 September 2012). Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam: Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-230-38020-2. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 20 October 2018.



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