Hongsibu, Wuzhong

Hongsibu is located 127 kilometres (79 mi) south of the regional capital Yinchuan.^[5] It covers an area of 3,523.09 square kilometres (1,360.27 sq mi)^[2] in a basin bounded by Mount Niushou (牛首山, 1,774 m (5,820 ft)) in the north, Mount Yantong (烟筒山, 1,715 m (5,627 ft)) in the west and Mount Luo (罗山, 2,624 m (8,609 ft)) in the east;^[6] the last has been designated a National Nature Reserve.^[7] The terrain is higher in the south than the north and the elevation generally ranges between 1240 and 1450 m above sea level.^[5]

Hongsibu first appears as a place name during the Ming dynasty.^[5]

Beginning in 1998, the area now comprising the district was chosen as a resettlement location for over 200,000 people from drought-stricken areas of southern Ningxia.^[8][9] In the most ambitious scheme of its kind in China,^[10] water was diverted from the Yellow River to create and irrigate 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) of new agricultural land.^[5] The administrative district was established in 2009.^[11]

Hongsibu District is divided into 1 subdistrict, 2 towns and 3 townships:^[12] Xinmin Subdistrict (新民街道), Hongsibu Town (红寺堡镇), Taiyangshan Town (太阳山镇), Xinzhuangji Township (新庄集乡), Dahe Township (大河乡) and Liuquan Township (柳泉乡),^[13] the last of which was created in 2014 from the western part of Xinzhuangji.^[14]

At the end of 2020 the population of Hongsibu District was 197,604, of which 40.1% lived in urban areas.^[3] The district recorded a population of 165,016 in the 2010 national census^[15] It was 51,875 in the 2000 census.^[14] 61% of the population is Hui.^[9]

Hongsibu District's gross domestic product was estimated at CN¥1.56 billion in 2015.^[16]

The Dingbian–Wuwei, Fuzhou–Yinchuan, and Gunquan-Hongsibu (formerly S19, now signed as G6) expressways run through the northern part of the district, as does the Taiyuan–Zhongwei–Yinchuan Railway.^[5] The Hongsibu Solar Park is located in the district.