Haiyan County, Qinghai

Haiyan County (Chinese: 海晏县; Tibetan: ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་། ) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, located on the northeast shore of Qinghai Lake. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Haiyan County 海晏县 · ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་།
County
Town of Xihai (西海镇)
Location of Haiyan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai province
Haiyan Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36°53′48″N 100°59′40″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Provinces of China	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Haibei
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Haiyan County, Qinghai
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	海晏县
Traditional Chinese	海晏縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hǎiyàn Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཧའེ་ཡན་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie ha'e yan rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Ha'êyan Zong

Economy

A major nuclear research facility, Plant 221 (221厂), was established in 1958 at the location called Jinyintan (金银滩) in Haiyan County.[1]

See also

• List of administrative divisions of Qinghai

References

1. Where China Built Its Bomb, Dark Memories Haunt the Ruins, By CHRIS BUCKLEY and ADAM WU JAN. The New York Times, 20, 2018