Nanning, city (1994 est. pop. 829,400), capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, S China, on the Xi River in a fertile farming area. The city has a medium-sized integrated iron and steel complex, a sugar refinery, other food-processing plants, and factories making fertilizer, machine tools, paper, cement, and farm machinery. The city is on the Hunan-Guangxi RR to Vietnam and was an important base for supplies going to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Guangxi Univ., a medical college, and an agricultural institute are there.

or Nan-ning formerly (1913–45) Yung-ning

City (pop., 2003 est.: 1,031,672), capital of Guangxi province, southern China. Located on the banks of the Yung River, it was the site of a county seat first established in AD 318. A frontier prefecture under the Song dynasty, it was later ruled successively by the Ming and Qing dynasties and was opened to foreign trade in 1907. It was occupied by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), although it was briefly a U.S. air base. It was a supply base for communist forces during the anti-French war in Southeast Asia (see Indochina wars) and the Vietnam War. Formerly known mainly as a commercial and administrative centre, it now also has diversified manufacturing.

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