Dingyuan
定远县 Tingyuan | |
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Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Anhui |
Prefecture-level city | Chuzhou |
Area | |
• Total | 2,998 km2 (1,158 sq mi) |
Population (2017)[2] | |
• Total | 974,900 |
• Density | 330/km2 (840/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 233200 |
Website | www |
Dingyuan County (simplified Chinese: 定远县; traditional Chinese: 定遠縣; pinyin: Dìngyuǎn Xiàn) is a county of Anhui Province, China. It is under the administration of Chuzhou city.
The ancestral home of Li Keqiang, the Premier of the People's Republic of China, was Dingyuan.[3]
In December 2011, Taiwanese businessman Zhang Jiulin (張九麟) held a press conference in which he described unfair treatment at the hands of local officials in Dingyuan County in a dispute about embezzlement at a company his father had owned which lead to Zhang Jiulin serving seven months in jail.[4][5][6][unreliable source?]
Dingyuan County is divided into 16 towns, 5 townships, 1 ethnic township and 3 others.
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