Xinxiang

Xinxiang is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan region, China. It fringes the commonplace capital of Zhengzhou to its southwest, Kaifeng to its southeast, Hebi and Anyang to its north, Jiaozuo to its west, and the regions of Shanxi and Shandong to its northwest and east respectively. Its populace was 5,707,801 at the 2010 evaluation of whom 902,731 are in the developed zone made of 3 out of 4 urban districts. As the city is extending rapidly, in a couple of years, Huixian and Weihui urban areas and in addition Fengquan locale and Xinxiang province will be added to the developed territory.

Xinxiang was site of the Battle of Muye where the Shang Dynasty was ousted by the Zhou. Xinxiang dates from the Sui administration and was a little market focus before being created as a modern focus during the 1950s. It additionally filled in as the capital of the fleeting Pingyuan Province, which secured neighboring urban areas Anyang, Hebi, Puyang, Jiaozhuo and Heze, somewhere in the range of 1949 and 1952, to exterminate Nationalist guerillas. The Roman Catholic minority is served by its very own Apostolic Prefecture of Xinxiang Sinsiangen, which was built up on July 7, 1936 on preacher domain split off from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Weihuifu. It is a pre-diocesan ward, which is excluded, not part of any religious region.