Hezuo
| Hezuo 合作市 · གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | |
|---|---|
| County-level city | |
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Monastery in Hezuo | |
.png) Hezuo City (red) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu | |
  Hezuo Location relative to Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 35°00′N 102°55′E / 35.000°N 102.917°ECoordinates: 35°00′N 102°55′E / 35.000°N 102.917°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Autonomous prefecture | Gannan |
| Municipal seat | Dangzhou Subdistrict (当周街道) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,670 km2 (1,030 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2,883 m (9,459 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 90,000 |
| • Density | 34/km2 (87/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 747000 |
| Area code(s) | (0)941 |
Hezuo (Zö) City (Tibetan: གཙོས་གྲོང་ཁྱིར།, ZYPY: Zö Chongkyir ; Chinese: 合作市; pinyin: Hézuò Shì) is the administrative seat of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southern Gansu province in Western China. It is home to the Gêndên Qöling (Zö Gönba) and its Milaraiba Tower, the Langshangmaio Temple, and a mosque. There is a breed of pig, the Zoi Swine (a.k.a. Silverweed Pig), from here and the whole Gannan TAP also.
Name
The Tibetan name Zö/Hzö གཙོས། is pronounced Dzoi in Standard Tibetan and pronounced Hdzoi/Hdzu in local dialect.
The Chinese name before the 1950s is Heicuo.
History
Originally a rare populated wetland, mass city-construction began in the 1950s.
Geography and climate
With an elevation of nearly 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), Hezuo has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), with long, very cold, dry winters, and short, mild summers. The monthly daily mean temperature in January, the coldest month, is −9.9 °C (14.2 °F), while the same figure for July, the warmest month, is 12.8 °C (55.0 °F); the annual mean is 2.40 °C (36.3 °F). Most of the annual precipitation is delivered from May to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 44% in June and September to 71% in December, the city receives 2,370 hours of bright sunshine annually.
| Climate data for Hezuo (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.1 (62.8) |
18.6 (65.5) |
23.6 (74.5) |
29.2 (84.6) |
27.2 (81) |
27.2 (81) |
30.4 (86.7) |
28.7 (83.7) |
28.1 (82.6) |
24.6 (76.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
15.0 (59) |
30.4 (86.7) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 1.1 (34) |
3.2 (37.8) |
7.1 (44.8) |
11.8 (53.2) |
15.1 (59.2) |
17.5 (63.5) |
19.8 (67.6) |
19.6 (67.3) |
15.4 (59.7) |
10.9 (51.6) |
6.5 (43.7) |
2.9 (37.2) |
10.9 (51.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.9 (14.2) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
3.5 (38.3) |
7.6 (45.7) |
10.7 (51.3) |
12.8 (55) |
12.2 (54) |
8.3 (46.9) |
3.2 (37.8) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
2.4 (36.32) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −17.7 (0.1) |
−13.9 (7) |
−7.5 (18.5) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
1.5 (34.7) |
5.0 (41) |
7.2 (45) |
6.6 (43.9) |
3.6 (38.5) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
−15.7 (3.7) |
−3.7 (25.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −28.5 (−19.3) |
−27.1 (−16.8) |
−23.1 (−9.6) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
−10.0 (14) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
−17 (1) |
−23.8 (−10.8) |
−27.9 (−18.2) |
−28.5 (−19.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.3 (0.13) |
6.0 (0.236) |
18.2 (0.717) |
30.9 (1.217) |
67.1 (2.642) |
79.0 (3.11) |
110.3 (4.343) |
104.7 (4.122) |
66.4 (2.614) |
37.6 (1.48) |
6.3 (0.248) |
1.7 (0.067) |
531.5 (20.926) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.8 | 5.8 | 11.1 | 11.9 | 15.9 | 18.7 | 19.1 | 17.8 | 16.8 | 11.3 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 140.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 49 | 51 | 59 | 62 | 66 | 71 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 73 | 62 | 51 | 64.3 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 205.1 | 189.0 | 196.0 | 206.8 | 204.1 | 189.3 | 204.9 | 206.4 | 162.3 | 180.7 | 209.9 | 215.5 | 2,370 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 66 | 62 | 53 | 53 | 47 | 44 | 47 | 50 | 44 | 52 | 68 | 71 | 53 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
Transport
- China National Highway 213
- Gannan Xiahe Airport, 56 kilometers from Zoi, has been under construction since September 2010.