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Xinxiang
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Updated: 2010-06-01 16:03
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Xinxiang was the battlefield of Muye War at the end of Shang Dynasty,which was the earliest recorded big war in Chinese history. Xinxiang dates from the Sui dynasty (581-618) and was a small market center before being developed as an industrial center in the 1950s. It also served as the capital of the short-lived Pingyuan province,which covers neighbouring cities Anyang,Hebi,Puyang,Jiaozhuo and Hezhe, between 1949 and 1952, for the purpose of externimating banditi.
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Agriculture and Industry
Textiles and processed food are major manufactures.It has a large number of heavy industry in machine making.As an old textiles basement the cotton industry is very developed in Xinxiang.
Transport
The city is a rail junction and industrial center at the head of navigation on the Wei River (衛河). The river, made navigable for small vessels by river improvements in the 1950s, links the city with Tianjin, the main port for Beijing. Later, due to heavy industrial chemical pollution, the river course had been totally cut off and got filled up. After recent dredges, it is still no more than a man-made lake.
Major enterprises
There are several important enterprises located in Xinxiang, such as Frestech Refrigerator, Golden Dragon Copper Group, Bailu Chemical Fibre, Henan Kelong Group etc.
