Nyingchi
Nyingchi, also known as Linzhi, is a prefecture-level city in southeast of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The administrative seat of Nyingchi is Bayi District. Part of Nyingchi is currently controlled by India, as part of Arunachal Pradesh. (See South Tibet dispute.)
Nyingchi 林芝市 · ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | |
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 The urban center Bayi Town in Bayi District | |
 prefecture (orange) in Tibet Autonomous Region (light-orange) | |
| Coordinates (Nyingchi municipal government): 29°38′56″N 94°21′41″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| city seat | Bayi District (Bayi Town) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 116,175 km2 (44,855 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 195,109 |
| • Density | 1.7/km2 (4.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-XZ-04 |
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| Chinese | 林芝 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས། | ||||||
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Nyingchi is the location of Buchu Monastery.
Geography and landmarks
Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as subtropical highland (Cwb).[1]
| Climate data for Nyingchi (1981–2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 8.9 (48.0) |
10.2 (50.4) |
13.5 (56.3) |
16.6 (61.9) |
19.5 (67.1) |
21.6 (70.9) |
22.3 (72.1) |
22.1 (71.8) |
20.5 (68.9) |
17.4 (63.3) |
13.7 (56.7) |
10.1 (50.2) |
16.4 (61.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) |
2.8 (37.0) |
5.9 (42.6) |
8.9 (48.0) |
12.1 (53.8) |
15.1 (59.2) |
16.2 (61.2) |
15.7 (60.3) |
13.9 (57.0) |
10.3 (50.5) |
5.5 (41.9) |
1.7 (35.1) |
9.1 (48.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −4.7 (23.5) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
1.0 (33.8) |
3.8 (38.8) |
7.0 (44.6) |
10.8 (51.4) |
12.0 (53.6) |
11.6 (52.9) |
9.9 (49.8) |
5.6 (42.1) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
4.2 (39.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.3 (0.05) |
4.4 (0.17) |
19.0 (0.75) |
46.2 (1.82) |
75.3 (2.96) |
119.2 (4.69) |
143.3 (5.64) |
122.2 (4.81) |
110.5 (4.35) |
45.4 (1.79) |
4.7 (0.19) |
1.0 (0.04) |
692.5 (27.26) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 49 | 53 | 58 | 63 | 65 | 72 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 66 | 56 | 50 | 63 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2] | |||||||||||||
Forestry and agriculture
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"According to local forestry officials, Nyingchi hosts the country's largest primitive forest region that covers 26.4 billion cubic metres, storing over 800 million cubic metres of wood."[3] The forests of Bomi, Zayu and Loyu have ancient dragon spruces which reach heights of over 80 metres and diameters of 2.5 metres. Wildlife species include "the Bengal tiger, leopard, bear, snub-nosed monkey, antelope and lesser panda."[3]
"There are over 2,000 species of higher plants, including some 100 species of xylophyta, 165 species of medical herbs and fungus. Crops include "rice, peanut, apple, orange, banana, lemon." Agricultural products include medicinal materials, "edible fungus, orange, tangerine, sugar cane, honey peach, apple, pear, grape, walnut and other fruits." [3]
Transportation
It takes about 5 hours to travel from Lhasa to Nyingchi by a highway opened at the end of 2018.[4] The railway between Lhasa and Nyingchi has been under construction since late 2014. It is estimated that it will take about 2 or 3 hours from Lhasa to Nyingchi when the railway come into operation.[5]
An airport – Nyingchi Mainling Airport – was opened in Nyingchi in March 2017, which may be used to support both commercial air traffic and the People's Liberation Army Air Force.[6]
Tourism
Guangdong province announced that it plans to invest more than RMB 400 million (US$63 million) in Nyingchi's tourism industry. According to the plan, Guangdong will help build 22 "prosperous model villages" in Nyingchi in counties such as Bomê and Zayü.[7]
Administrative subdivisions
The two counties of Zayü (察隅县) and Mêdog (墨脱县), collectively known as part of South Tibet, are considered by the Chinese government to be under Chinese jurisdiction. Parts of the two counties are under the de facto control of Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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| # | Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km²) | Density (/km²) |
| 1 | Bayi District | 巴宜区 | Bāyí Qū | བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས། | brag yib chus | 54,702 | 8,536 | 6.40 |
| 2 | Gongbo'gyamda County | 工布江达县 | Gōngbùjiāngdá Xiàn | ཀོང་པོ་རྒྱ་མདའ་རྫོང་། | kong po rgya mda' rdzong | 29,929 | 12,960 | 2.30 |
| 3 | Mainling County | 米林县 | Mǐlín Xiàn | སྨན་གླིང་རྫོང་། | sman gling rdzong | 22,834 | 9,507 | 2.40 |
| 4 | Mêdog County | 墨脱县 | Mòtuō Xiàn | མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་། | me tog rdzong | 10,963 | 31,394 | 0.34 |
| 5 | Bomê County | 波密县 | Bōmì Xiàn | སྤོ་མེས་རྫོང་། | spo mes rdzong | 33,480 | 16,770 | 1.99 |
| 6 | Zayü County | 察隅县 | Cháyú Xiàn | རྫ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་། | rdza yul rdzong | 27,255 | 31,305 | 0.87 |
| 7 | Nang County | 朗县 | Lǎng Xiàn | སྣང་རྫོང་། | snang rdzong | 15,946 | 4,114 | 3.87 |
References
- "Temperature, Climate graph, Climate table for Nyingchi". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- 中国气象数据网 - WeatherBk Data (in Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- "Tibet travel guide of Nyingchi Region, Bayi Town". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
- An "Attractive" Highway from Lhasa to Nyingchi Will Be Open, China Tibet Train Tours, October 23, 2018
- "Nyingchi Travel" ChinaTour.net Accessed 2013-8-11
- Singh, Mandeep (March 28, 2017). "A Quick Note On Rising People's Liberation Army Air Force Activities in Tibet". Delhi Defence Review. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
In March 2017, China opened an airport in Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), only 30 kilometers from the Line of Actual control (LAC) with India. This is the second largest airport in TAR and is closer to LAC than any other airport in the region. While the airport terminal is meant for civil aviation, it is known that Chinese airports, especially those in TAR, are essentially ‘dual-use’ – meant for both civil and military use. As Xinhua had announced in 2015, China is carrying out an ‘integration’ of civil-military airports in order to ‘strengthen aviation safety and combat support capabilities’. This will include joint maintenance of airport support facilities, joint flight safety support and joint airport management. Incidentally, one of the first airports to implement the aforesaid ‘integration’ was the Lhasa Gonggar Airport in TAR, having completed the process in 2015 itself. It can therefore be said that Nyingchi airport gives the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) an additional operational base in TAR, and one that is right opposite the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh Overall, this development is in keeping with the recent increase in the tempo of PLAAF activities in TAR.
- "China plans 'Swiss makeover' for tourism in southeast Tibet". CNN Travel. 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
External links
- Tibetinfor.com
- Nyingchi information and travel guides at Nyingchi.com