Pengzhou
Pengzhou, formerly Peng County or Pengxian, is a county-level city of Sichuan Province, Southwest China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu. There is an expressway that connects Pengzhou to Chengdu. It is bordered by the prefecture-level divisions of Deyang to the northeast and the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture to the north.
It has an area of 1,420 km2 and At the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the resident population will be 780,100, the urbanization rate will be 56.77%, the total number of registered households will be 595,400, the registered population will be 787,900, the urban population will be 279,000, and the rural population will be 508,900. Pengzhou is one of the three national bases of peony plantation and one of the five national bases of vegetable plantation and merchandise. Pengzhou's industry varies from pharmaceutical to petrochemical. The oil refinery attracts a total investment of 38 billion yuan, considered to be the biggest single investment of Sichuan Province since 1949. Like other regions around the area, Pengzhou was affected by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
History
The Pengzhou area is believed to have been inhabited since the Western Zhou period. Empress dowager Wu Zetian first set up Pengzhou in 686 AD. In 1337 AD, Hongwu Emperor reduced Pengzhou to Pengxian, or Peng County. Peng County later became Pengzhou City in 1993.As of late, Pengzhou is still occasionally referred to as Pengxian, or Peng County, even in official publications.
Administrative divisions
Pengzhou has 14 subdistricts and 9 towns:;subdistricts:
- Tianpeng
- Longfeng
- Mengyang
- Zhihe
Education
- Xihua University Pengzhou Campus is located at the south part of the city.
- Yanxiu Primary School
- Tongji Middle School（四川省彭州市通济中学）
Sister cities
- Ishikari, Hokkaidō, Japan
- Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
- Anykščiai, Lithuania
- Mataram, Indonesia,