Shibi, Fujian

Shibi

石壁镇
Shibi 石壁镇
Town
	Shibi Location in Fujian
	Coordinates: 26°14′40″N 116°30′50″E / 26.24444°N 116.51389°E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Fujian
Prefecture-level city	Sanming
County	Ninghua
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Shibi (Chinese: 石壁; pinyin: Shíbì), literally Stone Wall, is one of four towns of Ninghua County, in western Fujian province,^[1] People's Republic of China, near the border with Jiangxi.

History

Shibi bills itself as the Cradle of the Hakkas (客家人的摇篮) for its place in Hakka history.

Republic of China

Year 2 : Tingzhou fu, the prefecture which oversees Ninghua, is renamed Changting (长汀).

Liberation

Tingzhou-fu/Changting is broken up; Ninghua and its towns now come under the new municipal region of Sanming.

Notes and references

^ Fujian Sheng Dituce 福建省地图册, Gao Xiujing 高秀静, ed., China Map Publishing Co., 2003, ISBN 7-5031-3199-3

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[1] Fujian Sheng Dituce 福建省地图册, Gao Xiujing 高秀静, ed., China Map Publishing Co., 2003, ISBN 7-5031-3199-3

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