Under the Jin dynasty, in 280 CE, the area of present-day Yunan County was organized as Duluo County (Chinese: 都罗县).[3] In 349 CE, the area of present-day Yunan County was reorganized as Jinhua County (Chinese: 晋化县).[3] Two years later, the area of present-day Xinxing County was reorganized as Xinning Commandery [zh], which governed three counties: Xinxing County (Chinese: 新兴县), Nanxing County (Chinese: 南兴县), and Dandie County (Chinese: 单牒县).[3] During the final years of the Jin dynasty, from 416 CE to 420 CE, Longxiang County (Chinese: 龙乡县) and Furuan County (Chinese: 夫阮县) were established in present-day Luoding.[3]
The area was incorporated into the Tang dynasty in 618 CE.,[3] Following the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the area was conquered by the Song dynasty (not to be confused with the aforementioned Song dynasty which ruled portions of Southern China during the 5th century CE).[3]
Republic of China
Shortly after the creation of the Republic of China in 1912, republican officials reorganized the area multiple times.[3] In January 1914, Xining County was renamed to Yunan County (which it is still called today), and in May 1914 Dong'an County was renamed to Yunfu County.[3]
In September 2014, Yun'an was promoted from a county to a district.[3]
Geography
67.39% of Yunfu's area is forested.[2] The Xi River runs through Yunfu.[2]
Climate
Yunfu is considered sub-tropical and enjoys fine weather year-round, characterized by mild air temperatures, plentiful rainfall and sunshine, with an annual average temperature of 22 °C, annual average rainfall of 1,580mm and annual average sunshine hours of 1,418. The time-space distribution of rainfall is uneven in a year. It is overcast and dry in spring, hot and rainy in the summer, cool in autumn, and dry and sunny in winter.
Climate data for Yunfu (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
According to the city government, 420,000 overseas Chinese hail from Yunfu.[2]
Ethnicity
Yunfu is home to 39 ethnic minorities, which comprise a total population of 14,038.[6] The largest ethnic minorities in Yunfu are the Zhuang, Yao, Dong, and the Miao.[6] While many of Yunfu's ethnic minorities recently moved to the city due to marriage and work, there are large concentrations of indigenous minorities in two villages in Yunfu: Hejiang Village (Chinese: 合江村) in Jiayi [zh], Luoding, and Dalin Village (Chinese: 大林村) in Baozhu [zh], Yunan County.[6]
Yunfu has a total land area of 7,785.16 square kilometres (3,005.87 sq mi),[2] including 1,868,200 mu cultivated land, 1,353,700 mu paddy field.[citation needed] In the total area, the mountainous area takes up 60.5%, the hilly area takes up 30.7%, making Yunfu a typical mountainous city.[citation needed] The city's total population is 2,600,900 people, of which the nonagricultural population is 887,000 people and the agricultural population 1,713,900 people, the per capita cultivated area is 0.718 mu.[citation needed]
Yunfu's city government states that there are over 50 types of mineral resources in Yunfu, including gold, silver, copper, iron, marble, granite, limestone, and pyrite.[2] Other proven minerals in Yunfu include tin, lead, zinc and manganese, sillimanite, dolomite, barite, talc, kaolin, limestone, clay, rammell, potassium feldspar, and mineral water.[citation needed] The area's particularly large deposits of pyrite makes it China's largest sulfide producing region.[2] Yunfu serves as a regional center of stone mining and stone carving.[2] By the end of 2002, there were totally 254 certified mines throughout the city.[citation needed]
Major tourist attractions in the city include the Sixth Patriarch's Hometown Tourist Resort (Chinese: 六祖故里旅游度假区), Jinshuitai Hot Springs Scenic Area (Chinese: 金水台温泉景区), Tianlu Mountain Tourist Resort (Chinese: 天露山旅游度假区), and Panlong Cave Scenic Area (Chinese: 蟠龙洞景区).[2]
The city has 6 art galleries and cultural centers, 6 public libraries, and 5 museums.[2]
Healthcare
Yunfu has 89 medical institutions, with 10,364 beds.[2]
Transportation
With 324 National Highway running through the whole prefecture, cement-paved roads are accessible to each single township and village.[citation needed] Guangzhou-Wuzhou Expressway linking Guangdong and Guangxi is also connected to Yunfu which will further be united with Yulin and Wuzhou in Guangxi as well as the expressway network in southwest China.[citation needed] Sanshui-Maoming Railway also passes the whole municipality, which will be eventually linked to Luoyang-Zhanjiang Railway in 2008.[citation needed]
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^ abcdefghijklmno云浮市建置沿革 [Yunfu Organizational History]. yunfu.gov.cn (in Chinese). Yunfu Municipal People's Government. 2020-12-25. Archived from the original on 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
^ abcdefg人口语言民族 [Population, language, and ethnicity]. yunfu.gov.cn (in Chinese). Yunfu Municipal People's Government. 2021-06-04. Archived from the original on 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
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