Daping Township
Township
Chinese transcription(s)
• Simplified	大坪乡
• Traditional	大坪鄉
• Pinyin	Dàpíng Xiāng
Daping Township Location in Hunan
Coordinates: 27°54′11″N 112°25′55″E / 27.90306°N 112.43194°E / 27.90306; 112.43194
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
City	Xiangtan
County-level city	Shaoshan
Area
• Total	32 km2 (12 sq mi)
Population	14,300
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	411300
Area code	0732

Daping Township (simplified Chinese: 大坪乡; traditional Chinese: 大坪鄉; pinyin: Dàpíng Xiāng) is a rural township in Shaoshan City, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, China. It borders Shaoshan Township to the east, Shatian Township and Longdong Township to the south, Baitian Town to the west, and Jinshi Township and Longtan Township to the north. As of the 2000 census it had a population of 14,300 and an area of 32 square kilometres (12 sq mi).

Administrative division

The township is divided into nine villages: Xiangshao Village (湘韶村), Shaoxin Village (韶新村), Shaofeng Village (韶峰村), Huangtian Village (黄田村), Meihua Village (梅花村), Linjiawan Village (林家湾村), Xinlian Village (新联村), Daping Village (大坪村), and Zhuzan Village (竹赞村).^[1]

Economy

Rice, sweet potato, pig, and soybean are important to the economy.

Education

There are seven primary schools and one public junior high school in the town.

Gallery

Daping, Shaoshan.	Daping, Shaoshan.
Daping, Shaoshan.	Daping, Shaoshan.

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