Linzhou, Henan has a larger population than Xingcheng.
Xingcheng (), former name Ningyuan (), is a county-level city of southwest Liaoning province, China, with a population of approximately 140,000 urban inhabitants, and is located on the Liaodong Bay, i.e. the northern coast of the Bohai Sea. 
 It covers an area of 2046 square kilometers and has a population of about one million. 
