Yangquan

Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province in China, standing on the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau and the western side of the Taihang Mountains, with Hebei province to its east. Its ancient name was Rippling Spring. The city was founded on 4 May 1947 as part of the original Pingding County of the early Republic of China and was first called the Yangquan Industrial and Mining Zone. It regained municipal status in 1952, and in September 1983 Pingding and Yu counties were transferred to it so that it became a city directly under the jurisdiction of Shanxi. Yangquan is a new industrial city, called the hometown of coal and iron because of its anthracite, pyrite and bauxite deposits, and the 2020 census counted 1,318,505 residents. Niangziguan Pass, described as the ninth pass of the Great Wall, is among its sights.