Fuyang, Anhui

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阜阳市
Fǔyáng Shì

Administration Type	Prefecture-level city
City Seat	Yingzhou District (32°54′N 115°49′E)
Area	9,775 km²
Population	8,978,000 (2002)
GDP - Total - Per Capita	¥20.93 billion (2002) ¥2,344 (2002)
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	8
Township-level divisions
CPC Committee Secretary	Hu Liansong (胡连松)
Mayor	Sun Yunfei (孙云飞) ad interim
Area code	558
Postal Code	236000 (Urban center) 236200-236600 (Other areas)
License Plate Prefix	皖K

Fuyang (Chinese: 阜阳; pinyin: Fǔyáng) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Anhui province, People's Republic of China. It borders Bozhou to the northeast, Huainan to the southeast, Lu'an to the south, and the province of Henan on all other sides.

1 Administration
2 Notable people
3 Show-piece project
4 External links

[edit] Administration

The prefecture-level city of Fuyang administers 8 county-level divisions, including 3 districts, 1 county-level city and 4 counties.

Yingzhou District (颍州区)
Yingdong District (颍东区)
Yingquan District (颍泉区)
Jieshou City (界首市)
Tiahe County (太和县)
Linquan County (临泉县)
Funan County (阜南县)
Yingshang County (颍上县)

[edit] Notable people

Guan Zhong (? - 645 BC), Spring and Autumn era politician and economist
Lü Meng (178 - 219), Three Kingdoms era military general serving the Kingdom of Wu

[edit] Show-piece project

Yingquan Precinct (颍泉区) of Fuyang is widely criticized for its lavish spending to built its luxury governmental office building, which is designed as a miniture cross between the White House and the United States capitol. The average of income of local peasants which make up the bulk of local population of the precinct is only 2,000 Renminbi (around 250 United States dollars) per year, and the office building cost more than 30 million Renminbi (around 375 million United States dollars), nearly one third of the annual income of the Yingquan Precinct (颍泉区).

The new building required much larger area than the old, so in order to obtain the land needed, an elementary school that was built 10 years ago was bulldozed. The Yingquan Precinct (颍泉区) government failed to provide any money for a new school, instead, the over 200 students and the teachers are forced into half a century old buildings that are planned to be bulldozed: the doors had fallen out and there is not any glass on windows. In addition, local peasants' land was taken away without any compensation, despite the governmental promise. As a result, many peasants who lost their land are forced to turn trash collecting for living.