Xunwu County Explained

Xunwu
Other Name:	Sunwu
Type:	County
Coordinates:	24.963°N 115.647°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	People's Republic of China
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Jiangxi
Subdivision Type2:	Prefecture-level city
Subdivision Name2:	Ganzhou
Area Total Km2:	2351
Population Total:	331934 (registered population in 2018)
Population Density Km2:	141
Postal Code Type:	Postal Code
Postal Code:	342200

Xunwu County is a county in the far south of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Fujian to the east and Guangdong to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou.

It was the focus of Mao Zedong's 1930 essay Report from Xunwu which surveyed conditions in the region and related them to Mao's developing theory of Chinese communism.^[1]

Administrative divisions

Xunwu County has seven towns and eight townships.^[2]

Towns

The seven towns of Xunwu County are:

Changning (Chinese: 长宁镇) Chenguang (Chinese: 晨光镇) Liuche (Chinese: 留车镇) Nanqiao (Chinese: 南桥镇)

Jitan (Chinese: 吉潭镇) Chengjiang (Chinese: 澄江镇) Guizhumao (Chinese: 桂竹帽镇)

Townships

Xunwu County's eight townships are:

Wenfeng (Chinese: 文峰乡) Sanbiao (Chinese: 三标乡) Changpu (Chinese: 菖蒲乡) Longyan (Chinese: 龙延乡)

Danxi (Chinese: 丹溪乡) Dingshan (Chinese: 顶山乡) (Chinese: 水源乡) Luoshan (Chinese: 罗珊乡)

Notes and References

1. Book: Report from Xunwu. registration. 1993. Stanford University Press. Stanford University. 978-0-8047-2182-0.
2. Web site: 南京市-行政区划网 www.xzqh.org . XZQH . zh . 2012-05-24.