Delingha
德令哈市 · ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ · གཏེར་ལེན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
County-level city
Location of Delingha City (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of Delingha City (red) within Haixi Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Delingha is located in Qinghai
Delingha
Delingha
Location of the city centre in Qinghai
Coordinates (Delingha municipal government): 37°22′12″N 97°21′41″E / 37.3699°N 97.3615°E / 37.3699; 97.3615
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureHaixi
Municipal seatHexi Subdistrict
Area
[1]
 • Total27,700 km2 (10,700 sq mi)
Elevation
2,982 m (9,783 ft)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total88,227
 • Density3.2/km2 (8.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
817000
Area code0977
Websitewww.delingha.gov.cn
Delingha
Chinese name
Chinese德令哈市
Tibetan name
Tibetanགཏེར་ལིན་ཁ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Mongolian name
Mongolian script

Delingha (Chinese: 德令哈; Tibetan: གཏེར་ལིན་ཁ།), or Delhi (Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ), is the seat of the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northern Qinghai province, China. It is located approximately 200 km (120 mi) southeast of the Da Qaidam Administrative Region. It is a mainly industrial county-level city. The Bayin River divides the city into two parts: Hedong and Hexi. Because the prefecture seat is located in Hedong, it is slightly more flourishing than Hexi, which is chiefly agricultural.[1]

Established in 1988, Delingha administers seven township-level divisions covering an area of 27,700 km2 (10,700 sq mi) and has a total population of 78,184, making it the smallest of the five cities in Qinghai. The name of the city comes from Mongolian and means "golden world" (ᠠᠯᠲᠠᠨ ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ),[1] reflecting the relatively large Mongol population of the city. Da Qaidam administrative zone merged into Delingha in mid-2018.

Administrative divisions

Delingha is divided into 3 subdistricts, 3 towns, and 1 township.

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Mongolian (traditional script) Mongolian (Cyrillic) Administrative division code
Subdistricts
Hexi Subdistrict 河西街道 Héxī Jiēdào ཆུ་ནུབ་སྲང་ལམ། chu nub srang lam ᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠣᠢᠨᠠᠬᠢ ᠵᠡᠭᠡᠯᠢ ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ Голын хойнох зээл гудамж 632802001
Hedong Subdistrict 河东街道 Hédōng Jiēdào ཆུ་ཤར་སྲང་ལམ། chu shar srang lam ᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠡᠮᠦᠨᠡᠬᠢ ᠵᠡᠭᠡᠯᠢ ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ Голын өмнөх зээл гудамж 632802002
Railway Station Subdistrict 火车站街道 Huǒchēzhàn Jiēdào མེ་འགོར་ས་ཚུགས་སྲང་ལམ། me 'gor sa tshugs srang lam ᠭᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡᠨ ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠵᠡᠭᠡᠯᠢ ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ Галт тэргэн өртөөний зээл гудамж 632802003
Towns
Gahai Town 尕海镇 Gǎhǎi Zhèn ཀ་ཧྭའེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། ka hwa'e grong rdal ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠬᠤᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ Бааахнуур балгас 632802100
Hoit Taria Town 怀头他拉镇 Huáitóutālā Zhèn ཧྭའེ་ཐིག་ཐ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། hwa'e thig tha la grong rdal ᠬᠣᠢᠲᠤᠲᠠᠷᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ Хойтдаариа балгас 632802101
Hurleg Town 柯鲁柯镇 Kēlǔkē Zhèn ཁི་ལུའུ་ཁི་གྲོང་རྡལ། khi lu'u khi grong rdal ᠬᠥᠷᠯᠥᠩ ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤᠨ Хэрлон балгас 632802102
Township
Suj Township 蓄集乡 Xùjí Xiāng ཕྱུགས་སྐྱིལ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། phyugs skyil yul tsho ᠰᠦᠵᠢ ᠰᠤᠮᠤᠨ Сүж суман 632802200

Geography

Climate

Delingha has a cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) just moist enough to avoid being a cool arid climate (BWk), characterised by warm summers with moderate rainfall and frigid to freezing, dry winters.

Climate data for Delingha (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 9.6
(49.3) 		12.3
(54.1) 		18.9
(66.0) 		27.4
(81.3) 		29.3
(84.7) 		29.4
(84.9) 		34.7
(94.5) 		34.2
(93.6) 		31.7
(89.1) 		22.4
(72.3) 		14.6
(58.3) 		8.4
(47.1) 		34.7
(94.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −2.4
(27.7) 		2.3
(36.1) 		7.9
(46.2) 		14.1
(57.4) 		18.2
(64.8) 		21.2
(70.2) 		23.7
(74.7) 		23.6
(74.5) 		19.1
(66.4) 		12.2
(54.0) 		4.7
(40.5) 		−0.9
(30.4) 		12.0
(53.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) −9.8
(14.4) 		−5.2
(22.6) 		0.4
(32.7) 		6.8
(44.2) 		11.4
(52.5) 		14.8
(58.6) 		17.2
(63.0) 		16.8
(62.2) 		12.0
(53.6) 		4.4
(39.9) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		−8.6
(16.5) 		4.8
(40.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −15.3
(4.5) 		−11.0
(12.2) 		−5.7
(21.7) 		0.1
(32.2) 		5.1
(41.2) 		9.3
(48.7) 		11.8
(53.2) 		11.4
(52.5) 		6.5
(43.7) 		−1.3
(29.7) 		−8.3
(17.1) 		−13.9
(7.0) 		−0.9
(30.3)
Record low °C (°F) −30.9
(−23.6) 		−32.4
(−26.3) 		−21.3
(−6.3) 		−10.9
(12.4) 		−7.4
(18.7) 		−2.5
(27.5) 		0.5
(32.9) 		−0.9
(30.4) 		−8.9
(16.0) 		−14.2
(6.4) 		−20.3
(−4.5) 		−28.4
(−19.1) 		−32.4
(−26.3)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 4.9
(0.19) 		3.8
(0.15) 		6.2
(0.24) 		6.4
(0.25) 		26.2
(1.03) 		45.9
(1.81) 		51.7
(2.04) 		39.1
(1.54) 		24.1
(0.95) 		6.1
(0.24) 		2.9
(0.11) 		1.9
(0.07) 		219.2
(8.62)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 3.6 2.2 2.3 2.5 6.2 10.5 11.5 9.3 6.2 1.9 1.3 1.9 59.4
Average snowy days 4.7 3.8 3.3 3.3 1.9 0.2 0 0 0 2.0 2.1 2.6 23.9
Average relative humidity (%) 41 34 28 27 35 44 48 46 45 36 35 38 38
Mean monthly sunshine hours 226.4 219.9 253.1 270.4 272.5 248.8 250.9 252.2 241.3 260.5 237.1 226.5 2,959.6
Percent possible sunshine 73 71 68 68 62 57 57 61 66 76 79 76 68
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]
Source 2: Weather China[5]

Transportation

The Haixi Delingha Airport and Delingha railway station serve the city.

Economy and industry

Delingha will be home to a 400 million yuan "Mars village" used by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to plan future Mars explorations missions.[6]

At an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,800 ft), a 50 MW concentrated solar power plant with parabolic trough opened in 2018.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c 德令哈概况 (in Simplified Chinese). Xinhua.net. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  2. ^ "海西州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——各市县、行委常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Haixi Prefecture. 2 July 2021.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. ^ 海西 – 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  6. ^ Chen, Laurie (7 September 2017). "China's Mars base plan revealed ... and covering 95,000 sq km, there's certainly plenty of space". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  7. ^ Newsletter 2018, page 7
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