Xingping City belongs to Xianyang City, 40 kilometers away from Xi, and belongs to county-level city. 1June, 1993, the county was withdrawn and the city was established. Xingping City is located in the middle of Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi Province. The total area is 496 square kilometers. Total population is 570,000 (2007). Resident of the Municipal People's Government: Dongmen Street, Xingping City, with postal code of 7 13 100. Code: 6 1048 1. Telephone area code: 029. Pinyin: Xingping City. Xingping City is located in the hinterland of Guanzhong Plain, with Mangshan Mountain in the north, Weihe River in the south and zhouzhi county across the river. Xingping City is 40km from An in the east and Famen Temple162km in the west. It is a "satellite city" based on large and medium-sized cities.