Jianchang County


Jianchang is a county of Huludao City in the southwest of Liaoning province, China. It is the largest division of Huludao, with an area of, and population of 600,000, located in mountainous terrain west of that city, serviced by China National Highway 306.
Near the border with Hebei province lies the Jianchang Longtan Grand Canyon, home to wide variety of plants and animals. In 2009 a Troodontid dinosaur fossil with feathers was discovered in Jianchang. It is the earliest known such fossil and provides evidence for the link between dinosaurs and birds. Also found here, in Jiufotang Formation rocks, was the early modern bird Schizooura.

Administrative divisions

There are seven towns, 21 townships, and one ethnic township in the county.
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