Lixin County

Lixin

利辛县
Lixin 利辛县
County
	Location of Lixin in Bozhou
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Anhui
Prefecture-level city	Bozhou
County seat	Chengguan
Area
• Total	1,950 km2 (750 sq mi)
Elevation	29 m (96 ft)
Population (2017)
• Total	1,236,000
• Density	630/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	236700
Area code(s)	0558
Website	www.lixin.gov.cn

Lixin (Chinese: 利辛; pinyin: Lìxīn) is a county located in north-eastern Anhui province, China, under the jurisdiction of Bozhou City. It is a county famous for its education system and beef production. An agricultural county, the people of Lixin have depended on farming (mainly wheat) for hundreds of years. Recently, the industrialisation of China has forced many farmers to migrate to the cities for short-term jobs.

History[]

Lixin county is a fairly young geopolitical entity among those that have been many thousands of years in China. The creation of the county did not occur until the People's Republic of China was established in 1949. In the late 1960s, Lixin was created by the combination of parts from three neighbouring counties: Guoyang, Mengcheng and Fuyang.

A county part of Fuyang city, Lixin was recently joined by six other counties to form the prefecture-level city, Bozhou.