Yanghu

Yanghu Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Yuelu District in Changsha, Hunan, China. It is historically the territory of Yanghu Township, Wangcheng County in 1951. The subdistrict covers an area of 23.88 km2 with a registered population of 24,896 (as of 2015). It has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.

History
The subdistrict is named after Yanghuyuan or Yanghu Cofferdam, which is the present-day Yanghu Wetland Park. The park is a wetland in the Jin River estuary area. Its ancient name was "Waguankou" (or "Waguan Estuary"; ). The Jin River is a first-level tributary of the Xiang River and it is named after the tomb of Jin Shang ), a scholar-official of Chu State.

Yanghu Subdistrict was historically a part of Yanghu Township in 1951 and a part of Pingtang People's Commune  of Wangcheng County  in 1958. In 1962, it was the territory of Pingtang Commune of Pingtang District  in Changsha County. Wangcheng County was re-established from Changsha County in 1978 and it was part of Wangcheng County, Pingtang Commune was reorganized as a township in 1984 and Pingtang Township was merged to Pingtang Town  in 1985. On June 15, 2008, Pingtang Town was assigned to the jurisdiction of Yuelu District from Wangcheng County.

On August 3, 2012, the town of Pingtang was reorganized as Pingtang Subdistrict. On January 18, 2013, the subdistrict of Yanghu was established from four villages of Yanghu, Lianshan , Lantian and Shantang  and three communities of Pingtang , Baimiaozi  and Xinsheng  of Pingtang Subdistrict.

Subdivisions
When Yanghu Subdistrict was founded in 2013, it had four villages and three communities. As a new round of the Amalgamation of Village-level Divisions in 2016, Shantang Community was established by combining Shantang Village and Xiangping Community (formerly Pingtang Community). The subdistrict has three villages and three communities under its jurisdiction.


 * 3 communities
 * Baimiaozi Community (白庙子社区)
 * Shantang Community (山塘社区)
 * Xinsheng Community (新生社区)


 * 3 villages
 * Lantian Village (蓝天村)
 * Lianshan Village (连山村)
 * Yanghu Village (洋湖村)