Gongtang Township

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Gongtang
Township
Tibetan transcription(s)
• Tibetan	ཀོང་ཐང།
• Wylie transliteration	kong thang
Chinese transcription(s)
• Traditional	公塘乡
• Pinyin	Gōngtáng Xiāng
Damxung County scenery
Gongtang
Coordinates: 30°31′04″N 90°45′56″E / 30.51778°N 90.76556°E / 30.51778; 90.76556
Country	China
Province	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture	Lhasa Prefecture
County	Damxung County
Population  (2003)
• Total	4,800
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)

Gongtang (simplified Chinese: 公塘乡; traditional Chinese: 公塘鄉; pinyin: Gōngtáng Xiāng; Standard Tibetan: ཀོང་ཐང། ) is a township in Damxung County in the Lhasa Prefecture of Tibet, China. Established in 1960, in 1970 it became a township. It has a population of around 4800 and contains four village committees. The economy is based on animal husbandry, mainly shepherding goats, sheep, cattle and horses.^[1]

Lhasa's first airport, Dancing Airport, was located just north of Gongtang from 1955 to 1965. After moving to Lhasa Gonggar Airport, the old airport site was partially occupied by a racetrack. All remaining infrastructure was removed with only footprint of runway present.

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