Wushan County () is a county in the east of Gansu Province of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Tianshui. Its postal code is 741300, and in 1999 its population was 418,648 people. The population in 2017 was 500,000 people.
History Humans have inhabited the area since at least 38,000 years ago. The county was knows as Xinxing () during the Eastern Han Dynasty (188 AD). During the Song dynasty it was named Ningyuan (). Since the Republic of China it holds the current name.
Administrative divisions Wushan County is divided to 13 towns and 2 townships. Towns
Chengguan () Luomen () Yuanyang () Tange () Simen () Mali () Shandan () Wenquan () Hualin () Longtai () Yupan () Gaolou () Yanghe ()
Townships Zuitou Township () Yan'an Township ()
Climate
Economy Agricultural produce from Wushan are wheat, artichoke, flax, rapeseed, tomato, carrot, Amaranth grain, Codonopsis and Angelica. Iron, copper and molybdenum mines are also present in the county.
Culture Cuisine Wushan food is a mix of Lanzhou, Sichuan and Tibetan cuisine. Specialities from the region are: Donut shaped Youtiao Pork and beef hotpot Barbecue trout Liangpi Dandan noodles Jiaotuan: sticky corn-flour jelly Jiangshui (): a kind of sour vegetable soup Tianpei: Sweet highland barley dessert Fried artichoke balls (): Deep-fried flour-artichoke balls Sanfan (): glutinous flour soup with beans Guanguan tea () – a kind of tea brewed with rock sugar, jujube, Chinese wolfberry and longan in a clay pot on a fire.
References
See also List of administrative divisions of Gansu