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Haiyan County (Chinese: 海晏县; Tibetan: ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་།) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, located on the northeast shore of Qinghai Lake. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is home to 原子城 (Atomic Bomb city) covering 570 km²
Haiyan County
海晏县 · ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་། | |
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 Town of Xihai (西海镇) | |
.png) Location of Haiyan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai province | |
  Haiyan Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 36°53′48″N 100°59′40″E / 36.8966°N 100.9944°ECoordinates: 36°53′48″N 100°59′40″E / 36.8966°N 100.9944°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Provinces of China | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haibei |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Haiyan County, Qinghai | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 海晏县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 海晏縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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EconomyEdit
A major nuclear research facility, Plant 221 (221厂), was established in 1958 at the location called Jinyintan (金银滩) in Haiyan County.[1]
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Where China Built Its Bomb, Dark Memories Haunt the Ruins, By CHRIS BUCKLEY and ADAM WU JAN. The New York Times, 20, 2018
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