Everything about Jiuquan totally explained
Jiuquan (酒泉 |
Jiǔquán Shì) is a "
prefecture-level city" in the westernmost part of the
Gansu province in
China.
The entire "
prefecture-level city" (that is, a multi-county administrative unit - an equivalent to the traditional Chinese
prefecture) stretches for more than 500 km from east to west, occupying 191,342 km²; its population as of 2002 was 962,000.
The city's name came from legendary tale of the young
Han general
Huo Qubing, who poured a jar of precious wine into a local creek in order to share the taste with his troops, in celebration of their crushing victory against
Xiongnu forces. The creek was later named Jiu Quan ("Wine Spring"), which became the name of the Han prefecture established there.
Suzhou town
The administrative center of the "
prefecture-level city" of Jiuquan is the "
District" of Suzhou (Suzhou Qu), which occupies 3,386 square km in the eastern part of Jiuquan "prefecture-level city", and had the population of 340,000 as of 2002.
It is there where the modern mapmakers would usually place the "Jiuquan" label.
The District of Suzhou corresponds to the historic town of Suzhou (not to be confused with
Suzhou in
Jiangsu province).
It was founded in
111 BC as a military outpost on the
Silk Road to
Central Asia (the
Hexi Corridor). It is approximately 1500 m above sea level.
Being an important key point in the
Hexi Corridor, Suzhou often found itself to be a defended fortress, taken with a heavy loss of life,
as was the case when
Meng Qiaofang took it from
Ding Guodong in
1649, or when the
Qing general
Zuo Zongtang took it in
1873 from its
Hui defenders commanded by
Ma Wenlu during the
Muslim Rebellion.
Other towns within Jiuquan "prefecture-level city"
Besides Suzhou, other towns within Jiuquan include
Yumen and
Dunhuang.
The space launch center
Jiuquan city (for example Suzhou) is the closest major city to the
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Still, the space launch center is more than 100 km away from the city, and is actually located not Gansu province, but in the neighboring
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was built in
1958; the first Chinese
human spaceflight,
Shenzhou 5 was launched there on
15 October 2003, and the second in
2005.
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