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Linshui County 邻水县 | |
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.png) Location of Linshui County (red) in Guang'an City (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Linshui Location of the seat in Sichuan | |
| Coordinates:30°17′N106°59′E / 30.283°N 106.983°E /30.283; 106.983 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture-level city | Guang'an |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,919.22 km2 (741.01 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 707,537 |
| • Density | 370/km2 (950/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
Linshui County (simplified Chinese:邻水县;traditional Chinese:鄰水縣;pinyin:Línshuǐ Xiàn) is acounty in the east ofSichuan province, China, administratively governed by theprefecture-level city ofGuang'an; it is the easternmostcounty-level division of Guang'an, borderingChongqing municipality to the east.[1]
The county, which is not large, is accessible via a four-hour shuttle coach riding on the Chengnan expressway fromChengdu (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 andsweetnatural gas.
Strategically, Linshui County is on the only path out of Sichuan province in the east, as the connecting point betweenDazhou andChongqing. The local economy is largely dependent on livestock and agricultural farming.
Linshui County comprises 25 towns:[2]
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. TheG65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway runs through Linshui County, but no railway does. The closest railway to Linshui, theXiangyang–Chongqing line, runs west of these ranges, outside of the county's borders; the closest railway station, inHuaying, is almost 30 km (19 mi) away by road, and has very limited service.[3]
Plans exist for a high speed railway (Dazhou-Chongqing Intercity Railway,达渝城际铁路) that would run fromChongqing toDazhou, roughly parallel to the olderXiangyang–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 viaGuang'an, hometown ofDeng Xiaoping. Tens of thousands of residents marched in protest and were met by violent attacks by local police, including aSpecial 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.[4][5]
| Climate data for Linshui, elevation 392 m (1,286 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) | 23.6 (74.5) | 34.4 (93.9) | 35.5 (95.9) | 36.4 (97.5) | 36.9 (98.4) | 39.4 (102.9) | 42.0 (107.6) | 41.6 (106.9) | 34.2 (93.6) | 25.7 (78.3) | 18.7 (65.7) | 42.0 (107.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.2 (48.6) | 12.2 (54.0) | 17.2 (63.0) | 22.7 (72.9) | 26.2 (79.2) | 28.9 (84.0) | 32.6 (90.7) | 32.9 (91.2) | 27.5 (81.5) | 21.3 (70.3) | 16.3 (61.3) | 10.3 (50.5) | 21.4 (70.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) | 8.6 (47.5) | 12.6 (54.7) | 17.6 (63.7) | 21.2 (70.2) | 24.2 (75.6) | 27.3 (81.1) | 27.2 (81.0) | 22.9 (73.2) | 17.6 (63.7) | 12.9 (55.2) | 7.7 (45.9) | 17.2 (62.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 4.3 (39.7) | 6.2 (43.2) | 9.5 (49.1) | 14.1 (57.4) | 17.8 (64.0) | 21.0 (69.8) | 23.6 (74.5) | 23.3 (73.9) | 19.9 (67.8) | 15.3 (59.5) | 10.7 (51.3) | 5.8 (42.4) | 14.3 (57.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) | −1.0 (30.2) | 0.0 (32.0) | 4.9 (40.8) | 9.1 (48.4) | 14.1 (57.4) | 17.4 (63.3) | 17.8 (64.0) | 12.9 (55.2) | 3.7 (38.7) | 0.4 (32.7) | −3.3 (26.1) | −3.3 (26.1) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 19.5 (0.77) | 24.0 (0.94) | 55.2 (2.17) | 103.2 (4.06) | 173.0 (6.81) | 205.5 (8.09) | 179.5 (7.07) | 137.5 (5.41) | 133.0 (5.24) | 105.2 (4.14) | 55.2 (2.17) | 21.4 (0.84) | 1,212.2 (47.71) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 10.5 | 9.9 | 11.9 | 13.9 | 15.9 | 15.7 | 12.7 | 11.3 | 12.9 | 16.1 | 11.9 | 11.3 | 154 |
| Average snowy days | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.5 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 86 | 82 | 79 | 79 | 81 | 83 | 79 | 76 | 82 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 82 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 22.9 | 34.1 | 73.6 | 108.4 | 113.7 | 107.6 | 174.7 | 183.4 | 107.3 | 60.7 | 48.4 | 24.4 | 1,059.2 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 7 | 11 | 20 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 41 | 45 | 29 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||
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