Boxing County

Boxing County 博兴县
Township-level divisions
Boxing Location in Shandong
Coordinates: 37°12′N 118°13′E / 37.200°N 118.217°E / 37.200; 118.217Coordinates: 37°12′N 118°13′E / 37.200°N 118.217°E / 37.200; 118.217
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shandong
Prefecture-level city	Binzhou
Established date	923 AD (est.)[1]
Government
• County Party Secretary	Jiao Benqiang (焦本强)
• County Mayor	Yin Meiying (殷梅英)
• County Congress Chairman	Jiao Benqiang (焦本强)
Area
• County	900.7 km2 (347.8 sq mi)
Elevation[2]	8 m (26 ft)
Population (2010)[3]
• County	486,500
• Density	540/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	256500
Area code(s)	0543
GDP	2015
- Total	CNY 31.5 billion $ 4.56 billion
- Per capita	CNY 6,5000 /$ 9,400
- Growth
License plate prefixes	鲁 M
Website	www.boxing.gov.cn

Former names
Putai at the head of the Yellow River in 1878[4]
Traditional Chinese	蒲台縣
Simplified Chinese	蒲台县
Literal meaning	Bullrush Terrace County
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Pútái Xiàn Wade–Giles P‘u-t‘ai Hsien

Boxing County is a county of Binzhou in Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China.

History

The area of Boxing County was mostly created within the last few millennia and long remained sparsely populated owing to the destructive floods of the Yellow River.

In March 1956, Boxing absorbed most of the former Putai County, although Putai itself now forms the Pucheng area of Binzhou. Putai County had been established in 596.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Transportation

• Zibo–Dongying Railway

Notes

References

External links

• Official website (in Chinese)
• "博兴县" and "蒲台县" at Baidu Baike (in Chinese)