Pingba District is a municipal district of Anshun City, Guizhou Province. It is located in the central part of Guizhou Province in southwest China. It is named after "the land is mostly flat and open".
It borders Zhijin County, Bijie City, to the north, Guiyang, the provincial capital, to the east, and Xixiu District to the west. National transportation arteries such as the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, Xia-Rong Expressway, and the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway run through the entire territory. It is an important transportation hub in Guizhou Province and even southwest China.
, known as the "Golden Channel of the West and the Cultural Corridor of Central Guizhou".
Pingba District covers an area of ??999 square kilometers and has a total population of 358,800 (2013). The government is located at Zhongshan South Road, Anping Subdistrict.
In 2013, the GDP of Pingba District was 7.329 billion yuan, and the fixed asset investment of the whole society was 8.708 billion yuan.
On December 13, 2014, with the approval of the State Council, Pingba County was abolished and Pingba District of Anshun City was established, with the original administrative area of ??Pingba County as the administrative area of ??Pingba District.
Extended information: The geographical environment of Pingba District: 1. Topography The terrain of Pingba District is flat, with rivers crisscrossing it. The highest altitude is 1,645.6 meters, the lowest altitude is 963 meters, and the average altitude is 1,250 meters.
2. Climate Pingba area has a subtropical humid monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 13.3°C, an average temperature of 6.0°C in January, and an extreme minimum temperature of -7.4°C.
The average temperature in July is 23.5°C, and the extreme maximum temperature is 31.8°C.
The characteristics of Pingba's climate are: no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, four distinct seasons, abundant precipitation, no sand and dust weather throughout the year, no typhoons, low intensity of ultraviolet radiation, and a mild climate.
3. There are 17 rivers in the hydrological territory, with a drainage area of ??775 square kilometers and a total runoff volume of 5.034 billion cubic meters.
There are seven main rivers: Sancha River, Laoying River, Leping River, Yangchang River, Maxian River, Machang River and Linka River.