Boxing County
County in Shandong, People's Republic of China
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Boxing County is a county of Binzhou in Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China.
Boxing County
博兴县 | |
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  Boxing Location of the seat in Shandong | |
| Coordinates: 37°09′16″N 118°06′39″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Shandong |
| Prefecture-level city | Binzhou |
| Established date | 923 AD (est.)[1] |
| Government | |
| • County Party Secretary | Jiao Benqiang (焦本强) |
| • County Mayor | Yin Meiying (殷梅英) |
| • County Congress Chairman | Jiao Benqiang (焦本强) |
| Area | |
• County | 900 km2 (350 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Population (2019)[2] | |
• County | 504,900 |
| • Density | 560/km2 (1,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 256500 |
| Area code | 0543 |
| GDP | 2015 |
| - Total | CNY 31.5 billion $ 4.56 billion |
| - Per capita | CNY 65,000 /$ 9,400 |
| - Growth |  |
| License plate prefixes | 鲁M |
| Website | www |
| Boxing County | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 博興縣 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 博兴县 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Amply Rising County | ||||||||
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Hanyu PinyinPútái Xiàn
| Former names | |||||||||
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 Putai at the head of the Yellow River in 1878[4] | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 蒲台縣 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蒲台县 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Bullrush Terrace County | ||||||||
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History
The area of Boxing County was mostly created within the last few millennia and long remained sparsely populated owing to the destructive floods of the Yellow River.
In March 1956, Boxing absorbed most of the former Putai County, although Putai itself now forms the Pucheng area of Binzhou. Putai County had been established in 596.[a]
Administrative divisions
Climate
| Climate data for Boxing, elevation 9 m (30 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1991–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.7 (69.3) |
23.8 (74.8) |
31.9 (89.4) |
35.0 (95.0) |
40.0 (104.0) |
41.8 (107.2) |
40.1 (104.2) |
38.7 (101.7) |
36.9 (98.4) |
33.1 (91.6) |
26.8 (80.2) |
17.7 (63.9) |
41.8 (107.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.8 (38.8) |
7.6 (45.7) |
14.2 (57.6) |
21.3 (70.3) |
27.0 (80.6) |
31.5 (88.7) |
32.4 (90.3) |
30.9 (87.6) |
27.5 (81.5) |
21.2 (70.2) |
12.8 (55.0) |
5.6 (42.1) |
19.7 (67.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.6 (29.1) |
1.7 (35.1) |
7.9 (46.2) |
15.0 (59.0) |
21.0 (69.8) |
25.6 (78.1) |
27.6 (81.7) |
26.2 (79.2) |
21.8 (71.2) |
15.2 (59.4) |
7.2 (45.0) |
0.4 (32.7) |
14.0 (57.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.7 (21.7) |
−2.9 (26.8) |
2.7 (36.9) |
9.3 (48.7) |
15.3 (59.5) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.3 (73.9) |
22.3 (72.1) |
17.1 (62.8) |
10.3 (50.5) |
2.8 (37.0) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
9.3 (48.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.6 (−1.5) |
−12.5 (9.5) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
4.8 (40.6) |
10.8 (51.4) |
16.3 (61.3) |
14.0 (57.2) |
6.9 (44.4) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−10.3 (13.5) |
−14.2 (6.4) |
−18.6 (−1.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 5.4 (0.21) |
10.3 (0.41) |
9.9 (0.39) |
26.3 (1.04) |
52.1 (2.05) |
91.1 (3.59) |
155 (6.1) |
151.2 (5.95) |
43.7 (1.72) |
26.8 (1.06) |
23.0 (0.91) |
6.6 (0.26) |
601.4 (23.69) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 6.5 | 8.1 | 10.7 | 10.2 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 67.3 |
| Average snowy days | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 9.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 59 | 56 | 51 | 53 | 57 | 60 | 73 | 78 | 69 | 64 | 63 | 62 | 62 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 155.4 | 156.3 | 201.1 | 229.0 | 258.8 | 227.3 | 191.2 | 195.4 | 194.8 | 191.6 | 159.0 | 151.9 | 2,311.8 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 50 | 51 | 54 | 58 | 59 | 52 | 43 | 47 | 53 | 56 | 53 | 51 | 52 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[6][7] | |||||||||||||
