Tongshan ( simplified Chinese : 通山 县 ; traditional Chinese : 通山 縣 ; pinyin : Tōngshān Xiàn ) is a county of Xianning City, in the southeastern part of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangxi to the south.
4-637: The county is located along Hubei's mountainous south-eastern border with Jiangxi. Its best known tourist attraction is the Jiugong Mountain National Park ( 九宫山风景区 ), located in the Jiugong Range , south of Jiugongshan Town. The county is roughly coterminous with the upper part of the basin of the Fushui River , which flows eastward, into the neighboring Yangxin County , where it discharges into
8-401: Is served by China National Highway 106 (G106), which joins with G316 near the eastern tip of the county. Xianning Nuclear Power Plant is under construction near Tongshan County's Dafan Town. The county is divided into 8 towns, 4 townships and 1 other area: Mufu Mountains The Mufu Mountains ( Chinese : 幕阜山 ; pinyin : Mùfù Shān ) are a range of mountains located on
12-698: The Yangtze . A fairly large Fushui Reservoir ( Fushui Shuiku ) is formed on this river and its tributaries within Tongshan County by a dam that's actually built in Yangxin County, a bit downstream of the county line. The Fushui's tributaries also include a few minor reservoirs. The county seat is in the town of Tongyang ( 通羊镇 ); as it is customary in China, this location is usually labeled on less-detailed maps simply as "Tongshan County" ( 通山县 ) or "Tongshan". The county
16-596: The border of Jiangxi and Hubei provinces in China . Some maps label the range as 幕埠山, which would be transliterated as Mùbù Shān (Mubu Mountains), but this apparently is a typo. The Mufu range is a subrange of the Luoxiao Mountains . It stretches for about 200 km in a roughly southwest–northeast direction between close to Pingjiang in Hunan to the Yangtze valley near Jiujiang . This Hubei location article
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