Pingjiang County

It is bordered to the north by Yueyang County, to the west by Miluo City, to the south by Changsha County and Liuyang City, to the east by Xiushui and Tonggu Counties of Jiangxi, and to the northeast by Tongcheng County of Hubei. County covers an area of 4114 km2. The county has 19 towns and 5 townships under its jurisdiction. The government seat is Hanchang Town (汉昌镇).

• Name — Pingjiang County • Other Name — Pingkiang • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Settlement Type — County • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — People's Republic of China • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Hunan • Subdivision Type2 — Prefecture-level city • Subdivision Name2 — Yueyang • Area Total Km2 — 4114.43 • Population Total — 951200 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone — China Standard • Utc Offset — +8 • Website — www.pingjiang.gov.cn

In the Chinese Civil War, Pingjiang was a part of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area (湘鄂赣革命根据地), and, from November 1931, of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Soviet (湘鄂赣苏维埃). The Communist Marshal Peng Dehuai was a Kuomintang Colonel in 1928, when he was stationed in Pingjiang with orders to eliminate local groups of communist guerrillas who had fled to the area following Chiang Kai-shek's nationwide suppression of Communists. Because Peng had secretly joined the Chinese Communist Party he instead kept his unit passive and began to organize local Communist Party branches. Peng rebelled against the Kuomintang on 28 July 1928, beginning his career as a military leader in the Red Army from his base in Pingjiang. Some of Peng's subordinates in the rebellion survived and became important military figures themselves, including generals Huang Kecheng and Peng Shaohui.

According to the result on adjustment of township-level administrative divisions of Pingjiang County on 24 November 2015, Pingjiang has 5 townships and 19 towns under its jurisdiction. They are: • 5 townships • Banjiang (zh-Hans) • Dazhou (zh-Hans) • Mujin (zh-Hans) • Sandun (zh-Hans) • Sanyang (zh-Hans) • 19 towns • Anding (zh-Hans) • Cenchuan (zh-Hans) • Changshou (zh-Hans) • Fushoushan (zh-Hans) • Hanchang (zh-Hans) • Hongqiao (zh-Hans) • Jiayi (zh-Hans) • Longmen (zh-Hans) • Meixian (zh-Hans) • Nanjiang (Nankiang) (zh-Hans) • Sanshi (zh-Hans) • Shangtashi (zh-Hans) • Tongshi (zh-Hans) • Wengjiang (zh-Hans) • Wukou (zh-Hans) • Wushi (zh-Hans) • Xiangjia (zh-Hans) • Niushizhai (zh-Hans) • Yuping (zh-Hans)