Hongsibu, Wuzhong

Hongsibu District ( (official), Hóngsìpǔ Qū (local) ) is a district within the prefecture-level city of Wuzhong in the autonomous region of Ningxia, China.

Geography
Hongsibu is located 127 km south of the regional capital Yinchuan. It covers an area of 3523.09 sqkm in a basin bounded by Mount Niushou (, 1774 m) in the north, Mount Yantong (, 1715 m) in the west and Mount Luo (, 2624 m) in the east; the last has been designated a National Nature Reserve. The terrain is higher in the south than the north and the elevation generally ranges between 1240 and 1450 m above sea level.

History
Hongsibu first appears as a place name during the Ming dynasty.

Beginning in 1998, the area now comprising the district was chosen as a resettlement location for over 200,000 people from drought-stricken areas of southern Ningxia. In the most ambitious scheme of its kind in China, water was diverted from the Yellow River to create and irrigate 60 sqkm of new agricultural land. The administrative district was established in 2009.

Administration
Hongsibu District is divided into 1 subdistrict, 2 towns and 3 townships: Xinmin Subdistrict (新民街道), Hongsibu Town (红寺堡镇), Taiyangshan Town (太阳山镇), Xinzhuangji Township (新庄集乡), Dahe Township (大河乡) and Liuquan Township (柳泉乡), the last of which was created in 2014 from the western part of Xinzhuangji.

Demographics
At the end of 2020 the population of Hongsibu District was 197,604, of which 40.1% lived in urban areas. The district recorded a population of 165,016 in the 2010 national census It was 51,875 in the 2000 census. 61% of the population is Hui.

Economy
Hongsibu District's gross domestic product was estimated at CN¥1.56 billion in 2015.

Infrastructure
The Dingbian–Wuwei, Fuzhou–Yinchuan, and Gunquan-Hongsibu (formerly S19, now signed as G6) expressways run through the northern part of the district, as does the Taiyuan–Zhongwei–Yinchuan Railway. The Hongsibu Solar Park is located in the district.