Jinchuan County
金川县 • ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
Quqên, Dajinchuan
County
Landscape near Jinchuan County
Landscape near Jinchuan County
Location of Jinchuan County (pink) and Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) within Sichuan Province
Location of Jinchuan County (pink) and Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) within Sichuan Province
Jinchuan is located in Sichuan
Jinchuan
Jinchuan
Location in Sichuan
Jinchuan is located in China
Jinchuan
Jinchuan
Jinchuan (China)
Coordinates: 31°28′34″N 102°03′50″E / 31.476°N 102.064°E / 31.476; 102.064
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
SeatDowu (Lewu)
Area
 • Total5,524 km2 (2,133 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total58,068
 • Density11/km2 (27/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.abjinchuan.gov.cn
Jinchuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese金川县
Traditional Chinese金川縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།

Jinchuan County or Quqên (Tibetan: ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 金川县) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The seat of county is Dowu Town (Lewu[a]).

The county spans an area of 5,524 square kilometers, and has a population of about 73,000 as of 2019.[3]

Administrative divisions

The county is divided into 3 towns and 15 townships.[3][4] These township-level divisions are further divided into 112 village-level divisions.[3]

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Guangyinqiao Town
(Tugqên) 		观音桥镇 Guānyīnqiáo Zhèn ཐུགས་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། thugs chen grong rdal 513226101
Anning Town
(Anxing) 		安宁镇 Ānníng Zhèn ཨན་ཞིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། an zhing grong rdal 513226102
Dowu Town
(Lewu) 		勒乌镇 Lèwū Zhèn མདོ་བུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། mdo bu grong rdal 513226103
Manai Town
(Manê) 		马奈镇 Mǎnài Zhèn མ་ནེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། ma ne grong rdal 513226104
Townships
Sai Township
(Sha'er) 		沙耳乡 Shā'ěr Xiāng གསལ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། gsal yul tsho 513226200
Qingning Township
(Qênnying) 		庆宁乡 Qìngníng Xiāng ཆེན་ཉིང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། chen nying yul tsho 513226201
Kor Township
(Ge'er) 		咯尔乡 Gē'ěr Xiāng གོར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། gor yul tsho 513226202
Hedong Township
(Hodung) 		河东乡 Hédōng Xiāng ཧོ་ཏུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། ho tung yul tsho 513226205
Hexi Township
(Hoxi) 		河西乡 Héxī Xiāng ཧོ་ཞི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། ho zhi yul tsho 513226206
Gyêmo Township
(Jimu) 		集沐乡 Jímù Xiāng ཀྱེ་མོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། kye mo yul tsho 513226207
Sawa'gyo Township
(Sawargyo, Sawajiao) 		撒瓦脚乡 Sāwǎjiǎo Xiāng ས་བར་ཀྱོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། sa bar kyo yul tsho 513226208
Kara'gyo Township
(Kalajiao) 		卡拉脚乡 Kǎlājiǎo Xiāng ཁ་ར་ཀྱོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། kha ra kyo yul tsho 513226209
Osi Township
(Ere) 		俄热乡 Érè Xiāng འོ་བཟི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། vo bzi yul tsho 513226210
Ganai Township
(Ergali) 		二嘎里乡 Èrgālǐ Xiāng དགའ་གནས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། dgav gnas yul tsho 513226212
Akori Township
(Akeli) 		阿科里乡 Ākēlǐ Xiāng ཨ་ཁོ་རི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། a kho ri yul tsho 513226213
Karsa Township
(Kasa) 		卡撒乡 Kǎsà Xiāng མཁར་ས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། mkhar sa yul tsho 513226215
Zênda Township
(Zengda) 		曾达乡 Zēngdá Xiāng རྩེ་མདའ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rtse mdav yul tsho 513226216
Josum Township
(Dusong) 		独松乡 Dúsōng Xiāng རྗོ་གསུམ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rjo gsum yul tsho 513226217
Basi Township
(Maori) 		毛日乡 Máorì Xiāng འབའ་ཟི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། vbav zi yul tsho 513226220

History

Prior to the 18th century, Greater Jinchuan was ruled by the Gyalrong Tibetan Chiefdom of Chuchen. In 1700, the kingdom of Trokyap submitted to the Qing rule. From 1747 to 1776, the Qing dynasty launched the Jinchuan campaigns to suppress the Jinchuan chiefdoms.

The county briefly belonged to the Revolutionary Government of Republic of Kerutetsa [zh] until 1935.[5] In 1950, the People's Liberation Army conquered the county.[5] The county was briefly renamed Dajinchuan County (simplified Chinese: 大金川县; traditional Chinese: 大金川縣) from 1953 to June 1959.[5]

Geography

The county is bordered by Barkam to the north, Xiaojin County to the east, Zamtang County to the west, and Dawu County and Danba County to the south.[3]

The county lies within the Dadu River basin.[5] 42% of the county is forested.[3]

Climate

Climate data for Jinchuan (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 20.7
(69.3) 		27.8
(82.0) 		30.9
(87.6) 		35.0
(95.0) 		38.7
(101.7) 		36.6
(97.9) 		38.1
(100.6) 		38.0
(100.4) 		35.9
(96.6) 		33.3
(91.9) 		24.8
(76.6) 		18.5
(65.3) 		38.7
(101.7)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 12.3
(54.1) 		16.5
(61.7) 		20.6
(69.1) 		23.5
(74.3) 		25.9
(78.6) 		26.8
(80.2) 		28.8
(83.8) 		29.2
(84.6) 		25.8
(78.4) 		21.3
(70.3) 		17.0
(62.6) 		12.5
(54.5) 		21.7
(71.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) 2.7
(36.9) 		6.8
(44.2) 		11.1
(52.0) 		14.2
(57.6) 		16.8
(62.2) 		18.6
(65.5) 		20.2
(68.4) 		20.2
(68.4) 		17.4
(63.3) 		12.8
(55.0) 		7.4
(45.3) 		2.8
(37.0) 		12.6
(54.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −3.4
(25.9) 		0.1
(32.2) 		4.3
(39.7) 		7.5
(45.5) 		10.8
(51.4) 		13.8
(56.8) 		15.3
(59.5) 		15.2
(59.4) 		13.0
(55.4) 		8.4
(47.1) 		1.7
(35.1) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		7.0
(44.6)
Record low °C (°F) −9.7
(14.5) 		−6.9
(19.6) 		−5.7
(21.7) 		0.3
(32.5) 		2.1
(35.8) 		5.9
(42.6) 		8.0
(46.4) 		7.2
(45.0) 		5.2
(41.4) 		−1.2
(29.8) 		−6.1
(21.0) 		−10.7
(12.7) 		−10.7
(12.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.1
(0.08) 		6.0
(0.24) 		19.7
(0.78) 		51.9
(2.04) 		97.5
(3.84) 		153.8
(6.06) 		119.1
(4.69) 		94.9
(3.74) 		117.5
(4.63) 		67.1
(2.64) 		8.9
(0.35) 		1.3
(0.05) 		739.8
(29.14)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.7 3.7 8.8 13.5 19.3 22.3 18.6 16.1 17.8 15.7 4.2 1.3 143
Average snowy days 2.3 2.9 0.6 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 1.1 7.4
Average relative humidity (%) 50 45 46 54 62 72 72 70 75 74 64 56 62
Mean monthly sunshine hours 182.3 169.5 191.6 197.8 200.8 165.2 181.9 190.6 163.9 167.3 175.1 184.9 2,170.9
Percent possible sunshine 57 54 51 51 47 39 42 47 45 48 56 59 50
Source: China Meteorological Administration[6][7]

Notes and References

  1. ^ Merged from Jinchuan Town (Rabden) and Dowu Township (Lewu) in 2016.[2]
  1. ^ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ Government of Ngawa Prefecture. "勒乌镇".
  3. ^ a b c d e 金川概况 (in Chinese). Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Government. 2019-09-06. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  4. ^ 2019年统计用区划代码 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  5. ^ a b c d 历史沿革 (in Chinese). Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Government. 2019-12-10. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  6. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  7. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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