Wēiníng

Weining lay on the northern plateau west of Xinghe. The Jin established the county from Xincheng town in 1197; under the Yuan it belonged to Xinghe Circuit. A postal route from Shangdu passed through the district on its way west and north toward Karakorum, connecting this county with the wider Mongol world. The county was abolished in the early Ming, but its old site retained the memory of the frontier settlement.