| Linshui County | |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Pushpin Map: | China Sichuan |
| Pushpin Label: | Linshui |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the seat in Sichuan |
| Coordinates: | 30.2833°N 165°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sichuan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
| Subdivision Name2: | Guang'an |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Area Total Km2: | 1919.22 |
| Population Total: | 704,695 |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
Linshui County is a county in the east of Sichuan province, China, administratively governed by the prefecture-level city of Guang'an; it is the easternmost county-level division of Guang'an, bordering Chongqing municipality to the east.
The county, which is not large, is accessible via a four-hour shuttle coach riding on the Chengnan expressway from Chengdu (Shiling public bus station) and a two-hour driving from the municipality city Chongqing on the south. The county is rich in natural resources, and has reservoirs of coal and sweet natural gas.
Strategically, Linshui County is on the only path out of Sichuan province in the east, as the connecting point between Dazhou and Chongqing. The local economy is largely dependent on livestock and agricultural farming.
Linshui County comprises 25 towns:[1]
Due to the peculiar local terrain—a series of parallel mountain ranges running in the SW to NE direction --, most roads in the area run in the valleys, also in the SW-NE direction. The G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway runs through Linshui County, but no railway does. The closest railway to Linshui, the Xiangyang–Chongqing line, runs west of these ranges, outside of the county's borders; the closest railway station, in Huaying, is almost 30km (20miles) away by road, and has very limited service.[2]
Plans exist for a high speed railway (Dazhou-Chongqing Intercity Railway, Chinese: [[:zh:达渝城际铁路|达渝城际铁路]]) that would run from Chongqing to Dazhou, roughly parallel to the older Xiangyang–Chongqing Railway. In early May 2015, Linshui people learned that the railway would be routed (i.e. the valley in which it will run) was to be via Guang'an, hometown of Deng Xiaoping. Tens of thousands of residents marched in protest and were met by violent attacks by local police, including a Special Police Unit team, with two people reported dead. A violent reaction followed and the confrontation lasted all day and well into the night with many police cars damaged.[3] [4]