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Kangding (c=康定), also known as Dartsedo (), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Zheduo River and has been considered the historical border between the Kham region of Tibet and the Sichuan region. Kangding's urban center is called Lucheng, which has around 134,000 inhabitants.
On July 1, 1786 an earthquake of 7.75 on the Moment magnitude scale ruined nearly the entire city.http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/content/73/2/537.abstract "Source processes of large earthquakes along the Xianshuihe fault in southwestern China"
The city was renamed ' Kangding' in 1904. The American author Dorris Shelton Still, author of Sue in Tibet, was born here.
During the time of the Republic of China administration, Kangding was the capital of the now-defunct province of Xikang.
Dartsedo had a laogai prison or laogai after 1959. Jasper Becker in wrote, "The highest death rate was probably experienced by the Tibetans imprisoned after the abortive revolt of 1959. One survivor, Ama Adhe, describes in A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands what happened at the Dartsedo camp bordering Sichuan. By the roadside the authorities opened a mass grave which was filled with corpses and gave off a terrible stench. 'Every day,' she recalls, 'they would deliver nine or ten truck loads of bodies to put there...' Of the 300 women arrested with her, only 100 survived."
Dartsedo was particularly famous in France under the name 'Tatsienlou' in the 19th and earl 20th century as famous French travellers visited it, such as Alexandra David-Néel, Joseph Gabet and Évariste Huc, Gabriel Bonvalot and prince Henri d'Orléans or Victor Segalen.
Kangding has a monsoon-influenced climate, lying in the transition between a humid continental ( Dwb) and a subtropical highland climate ( Cwb) on the Köppen system. Despite the elevation of , the diurnal temperature variation averages at most in any month. From April to September, rain is a very common occurrence, with around two-thirds of the days receiving some rainfall; in addition, 77% of the annual precipitation is delivered from May to September. Monthly daily average temperatures range from in January to in July; the annual mean is . Over the course of the year, the frost-free period lasts 177 days and there are 1,738 hours of sunshine. The highest temperature ever recorded in Kangding was a high temperature record of measured on March 30, 2007.
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| Lucheng Subdistrict (Dochong) | 炉城街道 | 513301001 | ||||
| Yulin Subdistrict (Xalunggo) | 榆林街道 | 513301002 | ||||
| Towns | ||||||
| Kuzhag (Goja, Guza) | 姑咱镇 | 513301101 | ||||
| Xinduqiao (Xinduqiao) | 新都桥镇 | 513301102 | ||||
| Tagong (Tagong, Lhagang) | 塔公镇 | 513301103 | ||||
| Sadê Town (Shade) | 沙德镇 | 513301104 | ||||
| Gyitang Town (Jintang) | 金汤镇 | 513301105 | ||||
| Jagkai (Jiagenba) | 甲根坝镇 | 513301106 | ||||
| Kanggar Town (Gonggashan) | 贡嘎山镇 | 513301107 | ||||
| Gotang Town (Yutong) | 鱼通镇 | 513301108 | ||||
| Townships | ||||||
| Yagra Township (Yala) | 雅拉乡 | 513301201 | ||||
| Maiba Township (Naibung, Maibeng) | 麦崩乡 | 513301205 | ||||
| Pogtag Township (Pengta) | 捧塔乡 | 513301208 | ||||
| Basêgrong Township (Pusharong) | 普沙绒乡 | 513301211 | ||||
| Jiju Township (Jiju) | 吉居乡 | 513301212 | ||||
| Gagba Township (Gaba) | 呷巴乡 | 513301214 | ||||
| Kobyü Township (Kongyu) | 孔玉乡 | 513301218 | ||||
It is a fast-growing city, with a rapidly developing tourist infrastructure, including a scenic cable car imported from Germany.
In 2008 the PRC government opened an airport at Kangding in the province of Sichuan, with a runway. At the time this was the second-highest in the world, at above sea level,Aviation Week & Space Technology Vol 169 No 17, "Second-Highest Airport", p. 26 "World's second highest airport opens in SW China" Kham Aid Foundation. Oct. 22, 2008 with the highest position held by Qamdo Bamda Airport at 4,400m. Since 2013, with the opening of the Daocheng Yading Airport at an elevation 4,411m, Kangding Airport is the third highest in the world.
The folk song Kangding Qingge enjoys popularity throughout China. Since Kangding city was a major town for trading of cloth and tea between Tibetans and Han people. With the increase of trade in Kangding it also attracted more traders with different nationalities creating this culturally diverse city today. Therefore, singers also incorporate the music style of Tibet to acknowledge the diversity.WANG, BO. “A Study of Folk Songs in Kangding City, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.” DEStech Transactions on Social Science, Education and Human Science, no. icpcs, 3 Mar. 2020, 10.12783/dtssehs/icpcs2020/33885. Accessed 8 Aug. 2020.
Kangding contains some notable Buddhist monasteries, including Nanwu Si Monastery, Anjue Monastery and Jinggang Monastery.
It was from 1857 the see of the Diocese of Kangding, administered by Paris Foreign Missions Society. The Catholic church was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt in the 1980s. Today it is no longer in use and has been converted to shops and a hotel.
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