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Haidong is a prefecture-level city of Qinghai province in Western China. Its name literally means "east of the Lake." Haidong is the second largest city in Qinghai after Xining. Haidong Prefecture is situated in northeastern Qinghai Province, neighboring Gansu Province in the east. The capital city of the province, Xining, is bordered by Haidong in the west. According to archeological discoveries, this area was proved to be inhabited by human settlers. Before the Qin Dynasty (221-206), nomads of the Qiang lived here. In the early Western Han Dynasty (206-24), the troop of the court defeated the Huns in the west of the Yellow River, and a fortress was established in the city to protect against the invasion of nomad groups.