Yanghu


Yanghu Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, Hunan, China. It is historically the territory of Yanghu Township, Wangcheng County in 1951. The subdistrict covers an area of with a registered population of 24,896. It has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.

History

The subdistrict is named after Yanghuyuan or Yanghu Cofferdam, which is the present-day Yanghu Wetland Park. The park is a wetland in the Jin River estuary area. Its ancient name was "Waguankou", a scholar-official of Chu State.
Yanghu Subdistrict was historically a part of Yanghu Township in 1951 and a part of Pingtang People's Commune of Wangcheng County in 1958. In 1962, it was the territory of Pingtang Commune of Pingtang District in Changsha County. Wangcheng County was re-established from Changsha County in 1978 and it was part of Wangcheng County, Pingtang Commune was reorganized as a township in 1984 and Pingtang Township was merged to Pingtang Town in 1985. On June 15, 2008, Pingtang Town was assigned to the jurisdiction of Yuelu District from Wangcheng County.
On August 3, 2012, the town of Pingtang was reorganized as Pingtang Subdistrict. On January 18, 2013, the subdistrict of Yanghu was established from four villages of Yanghu, Lianshan, Lantian and Shantang and three communities of Pingtang, Baimiaozi and Xinsheng of Pingtang Subdistrict.

Subdivisions

When Yanghu Subdistrict was founded in 2013, it had four villages and three communities. As a new round of the Amalgamation of Village-level Divisions in 2016, Shantang Community was established by combining Shantang Village and Xiangping Community. The subdistrict has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.
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