Daye
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| Daye | |
| — County-level city — | |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| - Chinese | 大冶 |
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| - Pinyin | Dàyě |
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| Coordinates: 30°06′N 114°58′E / 30.1°N 114.967°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Hubei |
| Area | |
| - Total | 1,460 km2 (563.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - Total | 813,600 |
| - Density | 557.3/km2 (1,443.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Daye (Chinese: 大冶, Dàyě) is a county-level city within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi, in eastern Hubei, China.
Before the adoption of the Hanyu Pinyin, the name of the city was often transcribed in English as Tayeh.[1]
As it is usually the case with county-level cities, Daye includes both an urban core and a fair amount of rural land in all directions, with smaller townships (zhen) such as Dajipu (大箕铺). According to the Fifth Population Census of China (2000), the entire county-level city of Daye had 813,600 residents, making for the population density of 558 people per square kilometer.[2]
The city is served by the China National Highway 106 (which coincides in this area with China National Highway 316) and a railway. There is no passenger train stations in Daye, however; passengers need to border at the Huansghi station, near Huangshi center city.
The Daye Lake south of Daye's urban core is surrounded by parks and fishing ponds, and is a popular place for recreation.
For a traveller who goes on G316 from Wuhan toward the south-east, Daye appears as a border between more urban and more rural parts of the province. Daye sits on the south-eastern border of the heavily industrialized Wuhan/Ezhou/Huangshi metropolitan area; south of it, the much more rural Yangxin County begins.
[edit] Economy
Daye is an industrial city, a center of mining[3] and metallurgy; its name means 'Big Smeltery'. Among the major employers is Huangshi Daye Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.[4]
[edit] History
Daye County existed on and off for centuries; as recently as the WWII period, it included much of today's prefecture-level city of Huangshi. This means that pre-1949 references to a location in "Daye" or "Tayeh" may actually refer to anywhere within today's Huangshi.
Daye County was re-established on June 1, 1962, now on a rather smaller scale, as part of Huangshi City. On February 18, 1994 Daye was converted into a county-level city, still within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi.[5]
[edit] External links
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- Daye City People's Government (Chinese)
- ^ [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/EcoNatRes/EcoNatRes-idx?type=turn&entity=EcoNatRes.MinYB1971v3.p0236&isize=text Bureau of Mines / Minerals yearbook area reports: international 1971 (1971).
- ^ Huangshi population statistics, as reported by Huangshi Prefecture-Level City Government
- ^ Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper mine), Edong Mining District, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China
- ^ Huangshi Daye Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.,
- ^ The Founding of Huangshi
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