| Hongsibu District | |
| Other Name: | Hongsipu District |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Mapsize: | 250px |
| Pushpin Map: | China Ningxia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ningxia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ningxia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
| Subdivision Name2: | Wuzhong |
| Seat: | Hongsibu Town |
| Leader Title: | Secretary |
| Leader Name: | Ding Jiancheng |
| Leader Title1: | Governor |
| Leader Name1: | Wang Zhongqiang [1] |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 2009 |
| Area Total Km2: | 3523.09 |
| Elevation Max M: | 1450 |
| Elevation Min M: | 1240 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 Census |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 197604 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Urban: | 79198 |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
| Coordinates: | 37.317°N 106.101°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 751900 |
| Area Code: | 0953 |
| Website: | Official website |
| Population Rural: | 118406 |
Hongsibu District ((official), Hóngsìpǔ Qū (local)[3]) is a district within the prefecture-level city of Wuzhong in the autonomous region of Ningxia, China.
Hongsibu is located south of the regional capital Yinchuan.[4] It covers an area of [5] in a basin bounded by Mount Niushou (1774m (5,820feet)) in the north, Mount Yantong (1715m (5,627feet)) in the west and Mount Luo (2624m (8,609feet)) in the east;[6] the last has been designated a National Nature Reserve.[7] The terrain is higher in the south than the north and the elevation generally ranges between 1240 and 1450 m above sea level.[4]
Hongsibu first appears as a place name during the Ming dynasty.[4]
Beginning in 1998, the area now comprising the district was chosen as a resettlement location for over 200,000 people from drought-stricken areas of southern Ningxia.[8] In the most ambitious scheme of its kind in China,[9] water was diverted from the Yellow River to create and irrigate of new agricultural land.[4] The administrative district was established in 2009.[10]
Hongsibu District is divided into 1 subdistrict, 2 towns and 3 townships:[11] Xinmin Subdistrict (Chinese: 新民街道), Hongsibu Town (Chinese: 红寺堡镇), Taiyangshan Town (Chinese: 太阳山镇), Xinzhuangji Township (Chinese: 新庄集乡), Dahe Township (Chinese: 大河乡) and Liuquan Township (Chinese: 柳泉乡),[12] the last of which was created in 2014 from the western part of Xinzhuangji.[13]
At the end of 2020 the population of Hongsibu District was 197,604, of which 40.1% lived in urban areas.[2] The district recorded a population of 165,016 in the 2010 national census[14] It was 51,875 in the 2000 census.[13] 61% of the population is Hui.[15]
Hongsibu District's gross domestic product was estimated at 1.56 billion in 2015.[16]
The Dingbian–Wuwei, Fuzhou–Yinchuan, and Gunquan-Hongsibu (formerly S19, now signed as G6) expressways run through the northern part of the district, as does the Taiyuan–Zhongwei–Yinchuan Railway.[4] The Hongsibu Solar Park is located in the district.