Yangling District

Yangling District is located on the plains of the Wei River , within the City of Xianyang in the Province of Shaanxi, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 94 square kilometers and a population of 155,000. The district is roughly 80 kilometers to the west of the provincial capital Xi'an.

History

Yangling received its name as the family burial site of founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty.

Starting in 1979, Yangling went through several administrative region changes until it became a district to the City of Xianyang in 1983. In 1997 the Yangling High Tech Agriculture Sector Demonstration District was estalished in Yangling District as a testing ground for new agriculture technology and techniques.

Education

Yangling is home to the main campus of Northwest A&F University , established in 1934 by Yang Hucheng who was the general of the Northwest Army under Kuomintang.