Zhangzi

/d͡ʒɑŋˈd͡ʒiː/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 長子 /长子 (Zhǎngzǐ).

Commander Li further charged that the son of the biggest landlord in Licheng County had headed the 7,000-man work team in Changtzu.[...]Be that as it may, Li spread the thesis that, as soon as Liu Shao-ch'i issued his abysmal ten points, the "agents" in the Region gathered together 7,000 cadres and sent them to Changtzu County to carry out a line "left in form, right in essence."

[1983, William Hinton, “A Zigzag Road”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 361, 362:

There was a warm response to Chao's directive on the establishment of a personal responsibility system in government organizations. However, each government organization goes its own way in implementing the system, as can be seen from the following extract from a People's Daily report on the situation in Changtzu County, Shansi:
Beginning from the end of 1980, each unit in the Changtzu County, Shansi, implemented the personal responsibility system and the floating wage system.

[1985, Yuen Chen, Perspectives on Development in Mainland China, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164:

The Chongqing Temple in Zhangzi County, Shanxi Province, holds a set of late 11th-century clay sculptures of high quality.

1996, The Dictionary of Art, volume 6, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 717:

A PROCESSION ON THE BIRTHDAY OF THE SANZONG GOD
This is a description of an unusually elaborate procession that was performed as recently as the late 1930s. It was centered on the Sanzong Temple in the Big West Gate quarter of the county capital of Zhangzi, in the southeastern Shanxi province. The account was written by a native of Zhangzi County who spent many years collecting information from local residents about their temple festivals.

2000, Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd edition, volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76:

In Shanxi, the county procurator of Zhangzi County and local banking officials repeatedly blocked the transfer of funds to a Shandong-based enterprise after courts in Shandong ruled against the Shanxi-based defendant.

2003, Andrew H. Wedeman, “Import Protectionism”, in From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:

More than 5,300 square meters of dragon fruit have entered the bloom season in Xihan Village in Zhangzi County, northern China's Shanxi Province.

2021 July 28, “Time-lapse video shows how dragon fruit blossoms in N China”, in CGTN, archived from the original on 2021-08-02:


Linfen

Headquarters of the Second War Zone was at that time at Linfen, a sizable city on the railway in the southern half of Shansi, jammed now with soldiers, officials and refugees from the North.

1938, Anna Louise Strong, One-Fifth of Mankind, New York: Modern Age Books, →OCLC, page 121:

The village is on the outskirts of Linfen, an industrial city of 4.4 million which was once ranked among the world’s most heavily polluted cities, a consequence of the unregulated boom of steel and other industries locating factories close to their fuel source. Like much of northeastern China, even this region has enjoyed an unusual respite from the smog.

2018 February 10, Steven Lee Myers, “In China’s Coal Country, a Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-02-10, Asia Pacific:

China coal hub Linfen in central province Shanxi, one of the most polluted cities in the nation, plans to extend its winter restrictions on heavy industries to the end of the third quarter this year as it strives to meet air quality targets.

2019 April 15, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China coal hub Linfen to extend anti-pollution curbs to third quarter: draft plan”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-04-15, Sustainable Business:

A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.


Anze

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 安澤 /安泽.

[…]success in controlling the big joints disease in An-tse County to the PLA medical teams and to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on health work.

[1971, “Local Disease Controlled in An-tse County, Shansi”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:

The most spectacular change is the increase of rainfall in some areas, reaching an average annual of 100-120 mm. Linfen prefecture and Anze county in Shanxi have the most rainfall in the entire region because the afforested area has increased from the pre-Liberation coverage of 3.8 percent to 18 percent of their land area.

1982 November 18 [1982 June 14], He Guang [4421 0342] [禾光], “How Afforestation Has Changed Gansu's Climate”, in Worldwide Report: Environmental Quality, number 377, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Lanzhou GANSU RIBAO p 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121:

Firemen extinguish the fire during an explosion at a liquefied petroleum gas station in Anze county of Linfen, north China's Shanxi province November 28, 2006.

2009 March 31, Rujun Shen, “Wanted: Mayor for accident-prone China coal city”, in Lucy Hornby, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-23, Lifestyle:


Fushan

Another example is Fushan County, 40 kilometers east of Linfen City, where cave dwellings predominate. The 120,000 people of the county are involved in the production of iron ore, coal, wine, and silk.

1990, Gideon S. Golany, Design and Thermal Performance: Below-ground Dwellings in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:

From Jiamusi I took a local train to Fushan County, and for two hours I sat among Chinese passengers, some of whom looked like peasants.

2015, Ha Jin, A Map of Betrayal, Thorndike, Maine: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:


Quwo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲沃 (Qūwò).

It was a whole day's journey from I-ch'eng to Chü-wo which, in turn, is about 60 li east of Chiang Chou — one of the most important cities in southern Shansi and a center for curio-dealers. At this city, the Fêng River turns westward. While we were in Chü-wo, we decided to pay a visit to Chiang Chou to have a look at the various curio ships in that city.[...]Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.[...]After we returned to Chü-wo, our next trip was to dash across Chung-t'iao-shan.

[1927, Chi Li, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections), volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, pages 129–130:

The site producing the paleolithic stone artifacts at Xigou, Licun Village, Quwo County, Shanxi Province was discovered and trial-excavated in 1956.

1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 81:

In 1979, while we were conducting our archaeological work in Yucheng and Quwo, Shanxi province, I noticed another historical record in the Kuodizhi (a comprehensive account of geography written in 641), which stated that "the ancient city of Tang was 20 li west of Yuchengxian in Jiangzhou."

1999 [1994], 邹衡 [Zou Heng], “The Early Jin State Capital Discovered: a Personal Account”, in Roderick Whitfield, Wang Tao, transl., Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art, Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:

More than 100 pastors, co-workers and representatives of believers of the Christian Church in Quwo County gathered to bid farewell to the female believer Liu Chang’e who was born on April 17, 1926 in Shizidao Village, Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province and was called to heaven at 9:35 a.m. on June 9, 2022, at the age of 97.

2022 June 22, Xiaohua Zhang, “Believers Bid Farewell to 97-Y-O Christian Who Was Spiritual Mother of Many”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2022-07-19:


Xiangfen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄汾 (Xiāngfén).

Except for small-scale diggings at the old sites at Choukoutien starting in 1949,² significant field work in Palaeolithic archaeology in North China was not resumed until May 1953, when a new locality was discovered near Ting Ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, in the Fen River valley of Southern Shansi.

[1960 [1958 Winter], Kwang-chih Chang, “New Light on Early Man in China”, in Hallam L. Movius, Jr., Wilhelm G. Solheim II, editors, Asian Perspectives, volume II, number 2, Hong Kong University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:

Three human teeth also came to light in 1954 at Locality 100 of Ting-ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, southern Shansi.

[1976, Kwang-chih Chang, “Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Foundations”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 56–57:

The fossils of the Dingcun hominid were found in 1954 in the sandy gravel beds at Locality 54.100 near Dingcun Village, Xiangfen County, Shanxi.

1985, Wu Rukang, Lin Shenglong, “Chinese Palaeoanthropology: Retrospect and Prospect”, in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China, Academic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:

The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi Province's Xiangfen County also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said.[…]
"There were survivors on the first day and on the second day, but from day three, it's very likely that anyone we find in the future will be dead already," said a woman named Dong who heads the public relations department of Xiangfen County.

2008 September 10, “Rescue hopes fade after landslide in China kills dozens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-26, Asia Pacific:

Seventeen people were killed in China after a two-story restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday morning, state media said.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 28 other people were injured in the accident, including seven in serious condition.
The restaurant was in Shanxi province’s Xiangfen county, about 630 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Beijing.

2020 August 29, “2-story restaurant collapses in China, killing 17 people”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-12-24, Asia & Pacific:


Yaodu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 堯都 /尧都.

In Beilu Village of Liucun Town in Yaodu District, Linfen, abnormal illnesses continued to emerge, as a result of clusters of highly-polluting enterprises mushrooming in the vicinity.

2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 166:

On November 25, the Yaodu District Court convicted Yang and her husband of “illegal occupation of farmland” and “gathering a mob to create a traffic disturbance.”

2014 February 11, “Pastor Yang Rongli”, in THE WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, page 55:

Zhe Jiang Dong Ri Ltd Co
* Says it signs agreement on international agricultural products logistics park project with local government of Yaodu District, Linfen City and a Zhejiang-based firm

2018 January 3, “Zhe Jiang Dong Ri signs agreement on international agricultural products logistics park project”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-08-30, Markets:

On May 13, the day before Mother's Day, believers from urban and pastoral areas celebrated the formation of the women’s fellowship at Yaodu District Church in Linfen City.

2023 May 18, Xiaohua Zhang, “Shanxi Church Establishes Women's Fellowship”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2023-05-21:


Hongtong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪洞 (Hóngtóng).

The Wang Family Register now records the names of eighteen generations of the descendants of Wang Erlao, our founding ancestor. Wang Erlao came to this area from Hongtong County in Shanxi Province several hundred years ago.

1996, Peter J. Seybolt, “Houhua Village Under New Leadership, 1984-1990”, in Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait of a Village Leader in China, 1923-1995, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

Hongtong County's welfare entrepreneurs
Hongtong County, located within Linfen City, is part of one of the most economically dynamic prefectures in Shanxi Province and presents some good examples of emergent welfare entrepreneurialism.

2008, David S. G. Goodman, editor, The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:

Shanxi provincial department of environmental protection, along with the government of Linfen City, which administers Hongtong County, has sent a team of investigators to the county to look for possible malpractice, the department said.

2018 April 19, “Environment watchdog follows up chemical waste TV exposure”, in Mu Xuequan, editor, Xinhua News Agency:

Yao and Shun's Stories in Hongtong
County, Shanxi Province
Shanxi, one of China's northern provinces, is renowned for its long history, old temples, and rich coal resources. Hongtong is a county in the prefecture-level city of Linfen, in the southwestern part of the province. Currently, Hongtong is the most populated county in the city of Linfen, occupying an area of 1,563 square kilometers, with a population of 733,421 in 2010.² It has nine towns (zhen 镇) and seven townships (xiang 乡), including 463 villagers' committees that govern 902 natural villages (Zhang and Wang et al. 2005). Hongtong is well-known for its former status as an immigration transfer center during the Ming dynasty.

2019, Lijun Zhang, Ziying You, editors, Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:

Hongtong
National Imagery and Mapping Agency


Huozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 霍州 (Huòzhōu).

Braving the snow, Xi on Wednesday went to Fengnanyuan Village of Huozhou City, where he visited people affected by the flooding last year that disrupted the lives of 1.76 million residents in Shanxi.

2022 January 27, “CGTN: Celebrating Lunar New Year, China embarks on new journey”, in CGTN via PR Newswire via AP News, archived from the original on 2022-01-28:

In Huozhou city in the northern province of Shanxi, some low-lying houses faced stagnant water breaches, as floods from heavy rain trapped some residents in their buildings, the broadcaster said.

2023 August 12, Engen Tham, “Floods, mudslides kill two in northwestern China city”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-14, China:

A county-level city of Linfen, Shanxi, China.


Fenxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汾西.

In Linfen Special District, farming preparations have been made centering on agricultural and water conservancy capital construction. In Fenhsi County, 607 new water sources have been discovered, together with 860 small streams and ponds.

[1971 February 18 [1971 February 15], “Shansi Irrigation Construction”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 33, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 3:

My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.

2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:

Fenxi County, located in the north of Pingyang prefecture in the mountainous region to the west of the Fen River, suffered even greater losses from the famine. Fenxi was a poor county, indicated not least by the poor quality of its gazetteer.

2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister, editors, Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 245:

Police in the city of Linfen in northern Shanxi province have identified the boy’s aunt Zhang Huiying as a suspect because the boy’s blood was found on her clothes, the official Xinhua News Agency said.[…]
One of the case investigators reached by phone, a police officer in Fenxi county surnamed Liu, referred only to the Xinhua report and refused to answer further questions, saying he was not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to the city and county’s police bureaus’ propaganda departments rang unanswered.

2013 September 4, Gillian Wong, “China police say aunt likely gouged out boy’s eyes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-02:


Daning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寧 /大宁.

As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.
In the face of the excellent situation, the anti-party clique of the "gang of four,"--Wang, Chang, Chiang and Yao--stepped up their antiparty activities and strengthend their attacks on the party.[…]
Under the influence of their incorrect line, some cadres in our Taning County had the feeling of "It is safe to grasp revolution, it is dangerous to grasp production," with the result that class enemies seized the chance to make trouble, capitalism and anarchism ran rampant, production on some communes and brigades developed slowly and little transformation occurred.

[1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original by Taning County CCP Committee (in Mandarin), →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4:

Recently published inscriptions about earthquakes in Shanxi provide the statistical information, which proves reliable when we compare the different records.[…]An inscription from Daning county describes a similar toll: 175,800 people in Pingyang circuit died.

2018, Jinping Wang, “Clergy, Irrigation Associations, and the Rural Socioeconomic Order”, in In the Wake of the Mongols, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:


Xiangning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄉寧 /乡宁.

3. The masses are fully determined and full of vigor. For instance, 87 percent of Hsiangning County's labor force is engaged in farmland capital construction.

[1974 December 13 [1974 November 23], “Shansi Province Presses Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 3:

This newly discovered oil producing tree is distributed in natural secondary forests in Hsiang-ning County of the southern end of Lu-liang-shan Mountains and I-ch'eng County of the northern part of Chung-t'iao-shan Mountains in Shansi Province.

[1978 July 21, People's Republic of China Scientific Abstracts, number 194, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 32:

The founder of the sunrame^([sic – meaning surname]) E was the Marquise of E (E hou 鄂侯) originally from the State of Chin 晉. E was later adopted as a common surname by his descendants and the family settled in Hsiang-ning hsien 鄉寧縣, Shan-hsi 山西 province.

[2000, Sheau-yueh J. (趙賀筱岳) Chao, “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames], Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:

The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.

2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-06-26:


隰縣

/ɕi³⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/ɕi³⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

Xi County, Xixian (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)


Yuncheng

Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.

2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World:

At Haiquan School, in Yuncheng, a city in northern Shanxi Province, thousands of boarding students from first to 12th grade were ordered to stay on campus for at least four weeks.

2022 November 16, Muyi Xiao, Isabelle Qian, Ang Li, Amy Chang Chien, Vivian Wang, “What Videos Show About the Extremes of China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-16, Asia Pacific:


Jishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稷山 (Jìshān).

Chi-shan (alternative)
Chishan (alternative)

Comrade Zuo Ming was born in 1921 in Jishan County, Shanxi Province. He took part in the revolution in 1930 and joined the CPC in 1938.

1983 June 16 [1983 May 26], Xu Shijie, quotee, “Guangdong's Ren Zhongyi Attends Memorial Meeting”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 117, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou GUANGZHOU RIBAO, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page P 1:

In their first paper (T. Hong et al., 1992), Paeonia ostii was described as a new tree peony that is widely cultivated in China for medicine; P. jishanensis was described as a new species from Jishan County, Shanxi Province, and was stated to differ from P. suffruticosa var. spontanea Rehder in having white flowers and non-petaloid stamens; P. yananensis was based on a specimen from a forest near the Peony Garden in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province; and P. suffruticosa subsp. rockii S. G. Haw & Lauener was raised to specific rank, but this new combination was invalid.

2010, De-Yuan Hong, “History of Taxonomic Studies of Paeonia”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:

The Jishan Article Case In April 2007, Nan Huirong, Xue Zhijing and Yang Qinyu, three technology officials in Jishan County, Shanxi Province, wrote an article that expressed discontent with the situation in Jishan, criticized County Party Secretary Li Runshan in a number of ways, and adduced evidence to back their complaints.

2012 [2008 February 19], Liu Xiaobo, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:

In addition, nine tombs of the Duan family cemetery with extravagant interior wall reliefs, known as the Macun Tombs, were found in the village of Macun in Jishan County, forty-five miles west of Houma.

2016, Jeehee Hong, “Theater of the Dead”, in Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-1400, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:

Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs from residents at a nucleic acid testing site during a third round of mass testing following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yuncheng's Jishan county, Shanxi province, China December 29, 2021.

2022 January 1, Min Zhang, Tony Munroe, “China reports 191 new COVID-19 cases for Jan 1 vs 231 day earlier”, in Neil Fullick, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-01-03, China:


Hejin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河津 (Héjīn).

Ho-chin (alternative)
Hotsin (alternative)

After 20 days of hard work, a 110-kw high-tension power line running from the (Hsiajihkou) transformer station in Hancheng County, Shensi, to the (Nanfeneping) transformer station in Hochin County, Shansi, has been successfully completed and will go into operation on the eve of the spring festival.

[1978 February 8 [1978 January 30], “Shansi Power Line”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page K 7:

A thermal power plant will be set up in Hsiangning to produce power from local coal which, together with power from the projected Lungmen power plant, will serve to pro- duce aluminum from the big bauxite mine at Hochin to its south.

[1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

The school is owned by the South Pacific Corporation, and that is owned by a Hainan millionaire. He also owns a steel plant in HeJin town near Yuncheng, and many plantations on Hainan Island.

[1997, Justin Hill, A Bend in the Yellow River, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 251:

The mine, sitting astride Xiangning county and Hejin city, covers about 180 sq km, Xinhua said, adding that the mining zone holds more than 2.3 billion tons of coal reserves, including nearly 1.04 billion tons of proven reserves.

2010 March 28, Benjamin Kang Lim, “Flood in new China coal mine traps 123 miners”, in Tim Pearce, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-01-30, World News:

A county-level city of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.


Wanrong

According to the statistics of Wanjung County, of the 34,000 people who had received instruction in reading by October 1958, one-third had again become illiterate, and the other two-thirds were unable even to read newspapers.

[1966, George P. Jan, “Mass Education in the Chinese Communes”, in George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, San Francisco, Cali.: Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 511:

Also in November, in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, in central China, two policemen were killed when enraged construction workers attacked a police station after a traffic dispute.

2004 December 31, Joseph Kahn, “China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-05-27, Asia Pacific:


Yongji

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永吉 (Yǒngjí).

China's Premier Wen Jiabao waves to locals during his visit to the flood-hit Kouqian town of Yongji county, Jilin province August 3, 2010.

2010 August 4, Ben Blanchard, “China says waters on North Korean border surge”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-14, ENVIRONMENT:


Yongji

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永濟 /永济 (Yǒngjì).

On Thursday, the police arrested two labor inspectors from Yongji city in Shanxi who were accused of negligence and abuse of their powers, Xinhua reported.

2007 June 23, David Lague, “China Tries to Contain Scandal Over Slave Labor With Arrests and Apology”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-04-09, Asia Pacific:


Ruicheng

/ˌɹweɪˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 芮城.

9. Yongle Temple (Shanxi Province)
This temple located in Ruicheng County, in the southwestern corner of Shanxi Province, was originally situated on the banks of the Huanghe River in Yongle, a town bearing the same name as the temple.

1993, Foster Stockwell, “Visitor's Guide to Taoist Sites”, in 中国宗教概览 [Religion in China Today], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

A solar panel installation is seen in Ruicheng County in central China’s Shanxi Province.

2019 December 9, John Kerry, Ro Khanna, “Don’t Let China Win the Green Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-09, Opinion:


Yanhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹽湖／盐湖 (Yánhú).

zh-l

鹽湖／盐湖 (Yánhú)

The disappearances began in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, last October.[…]Zhang Yunbao, police captain in the city’s Yanhu District, said he had received 10 similar reports.

2009 January 23, Annie Wei, “50 Shanxi teens kidnapped, beaten in Myanmar”, in Beijing Today, number 399, →ISSN, →OCLC, News, page 3, columns 1, 2:


Wenxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜 /闻喜.

I arrived at the P’ei village in Wen-hsi county. I paid my respects at the shrine to the Duke of Chin (i.e. P’ei Tu, 764-839) and inquired after his descendants. There were still one or two hundred men who left their plowing to come and pay their respects together.

[1973, Denis Twitchett, quoting Ku Yen-wu, “The Composition of the T’ang Ruling Class: New Evidence from Tunhuang”, in Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, editors, Perspectives on the T’ang (Asian Studies), Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:

Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man around. His company, Haixin Steel, accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in Wenxi, a county of 340,000 people. Mr. Li paid wages, bought land, built roads and schools and, when people were unhappy, took blame.[…]
Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.

2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World:


Yuanqu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 垣曲.

In the fluvial deposits which have developed to the west of the village of T'ungeshanchen in Yuanchu County of Shenhsi^([sic – meaning Shanhsi]) Province, one can find the Nihewan fauna (Axis rugosus, etc.).

[1963 June 24, Chung-chien Yang, “Questions of Neotectonics in the Northern Foothills of the Ch'inling”, in V. N. Pavlinov, editor, Works of the First Conference on Neotectonics in China, →OCLC, page 123:

Rescuers prepare to rescue villagers who are stranded in a flooding river in Yuanqu county, north China's Shanxi province July 30, 2007.

2007 July 31, “China floods put Three Gorges Dam to the test”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, Technology:

After a 10-year fight for compensation, a Hong Kong businessman who says he is owed millions after his company was hijacked by officials in Yuanqu county, Shanxi, has received less than a third of his investment back.

2009 September 13, “HK businessman gets partial payout after 10-year fight over hijacking of Shanxi firm”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-02:


Qinshui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁水.

Chao Shu-li was a native of Chinshui County, Shansi Province.

[1959, Ting Yi, “Literature in the Liberated Areas of the Path of Socialist Realism”, in A Short History of Modern Chinese Literature, Kennikat Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254:

The PEOPLE'S DAILY today frontpages a report introducing the experience of Chinshui county, Shansi, in developing diversified economy.[…]
Chinshui county is a hilly region with favorable conditions for developing a diversified economy.

[1965 August 3 [1965 July 19], “Not Only for 'Pocket Money'”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page CCC 1:

Li Shih-chün had connections with the judicial section of the puppet hsien government in Ch'in-shui. A few days later, the judicial section of the hsien government dispatched a runner to Wang-chai Village to summon Hsü Yin-yüan to appear before the court in Ch’in-shui.

[1976, “A Cave with Two Entrances”, in Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

First-phase liquefaction and storage facilities are in Qinshui county, Shanxi province while the second phase is in nearby Yangcheng county.

2008 April 21, Eric Ng, “China Leason budgets 200m yuan to expand gas liquefaction”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-19:


Yangcheng

The Mandarin of Yangcheng was a powerful figure. In that part of mountainous southern Shansi, the principal city was Tsechow. Several days' journey away, circling out from the capital, were the four smaller sister cities: Yangcheng, Chin Shui, Kaoping and Lingchuang, tiny walled citadels nestling among the high mountains. The Mandarin of Yangcheng ruled his city and district by decree from the governor and war lord at Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi far to the north. The government at Taiyuan owed nominal allegiance to the Nationalists. Yangcheng lay deep in the mountains.

1957, Alan Burgess, chapter 6, in 小婦人 [The Small Woman], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 76:

A year after I had left Southeast Shansi, trying to keep track of my friends there, I learned that the young hsien chang of Yangcheng, the one who had majored in government, had been purged—but by whom, or which group, or for what cause, I never found out.

1978, Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Jonathan Cape, published 1979, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:

A statement from Yangcheng County in Shanxi province said the carbon disulfide leak occurred Saturday morning at a plant belonging to the Ruixing chemical company.

2015 May 16, “Chemical leak in northern China kills 8, injures 2”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-07-16:


Zezhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 澤州 /泽州 (Zézhōu).

The Qinglian Temple is on the side of Xiashi Mountain in Zezhou County, Jincheng, Shanxi Province.

2010, Zhao Wenbing [肇文兵], “Integration of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism”, in Wang Wenliang [王文亮], Kang Jian [康健], Han Huizhi [韩慧枝], Xiao Ying [肖颖], transl., Chinese Sculpting: History Through Centuries of Sculpting [中国雕塑], China Intercontinental Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94:

Zhai Meng, who ran a Liren library in Zezhou County, Shanxi Province, said officials from the local cultural affairs department conducted two inspections of the library in August, both “appearing to be targeting foreign publications.”

2014 September 22, Vanessa Piao, “Rural Library Chain Closes, Citing ‘Tremendous Pressure’”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-02, Sinophere:

At the same time, fengshui has also been taken into consideration in terms of spacial environment. For example, Zhou Village in Zezhou County faces Xiaonanling Mountain in the south, and lies on Huangshaling Mountain, with other mountain and hills on its left and right, forming a relatively enclosed space.

2021, Traditional Chinese Villages: Beautiful Nostalgia, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 245:


Gaoping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高平 (Gāopíng).

Revolutionary committees at all levels in Kaoping County have seriously implemented Chairman Mao's instructions on developing pig breeding and have developed pig breeding in a big way for the revolution.

[1970 October 14 [1970 October 12], “Pig Breeding Studied, Improved by Shansi County”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page F 5:

Interlude at Kaoping
We left Tsincheng early one morning for Changchih County and drove first to Kaoping where we halted for a while to see a modern silk weaving and dyeing factory set up in 1960 there, which by 1971 was producing 1,850,000 metres of woven and dyed material, with a value of 4,200,000 yuan.
Kaoping I had known in the past as a famous place for its pears, which are especially juicy.

[1973, Rewi Alley, “New Life of a 3,000-year-old City and Its Surroundings”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

Feng Ying-ts’e is a native of Chi-t’an Village, Kao-p’ing hsien, Shansi Province, and a member of San-chia People’s Commune there.[...]Under the Party's direction, she was involved in communication and liaison missions in the border area of the three hsien of Chin-ch’eng, Ling-ch’uan, and Kao-p’ing.

[1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 110, 196:

But it said the pit dates to the cruelest military campaign of the Warring States period of 476 to 221 B.C. When commander Zhao Kuo was killed, 300,000 of his troops surrendered to rival Qin forces. All were buried alive.
The pit was discovered in Gaoping, a city 350 miles southwest of Beijing in central China’s Shaanxi^([sic – meaning Shanxi]) province.

1995 October 31, “Archaeologists Find Remains of Soldiers Buried Alive 2,000 Years Ago”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

More senior officials from Shanxi are under investigation for alleged corruption, the latest in a series of anti-graft probes focused on the coal-rich province.
The government's anti-corruption investigation department said yesterday that the mayor of Gaoping, Yang Xiaobo, and the deputy head of the work committee for the provincial Communist Party, Guo Zhongshi, were accused of "serious violations of discipline", a term often used to describe graft.

2014 May 1, Zhang Hong, “More Shanxi officials investigated for corruption”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-05-03, China:

A county-level city of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.


Lingchuan

A man from Lingchuan county near Guilin has been arrested for allegedly posing as an employee at the state power company and stealing electricity meters from more than 80 homes, the Guilin Evening News reports.

2014 October 20, “Teen invents cheap 3D printer; ‘drunks’ in police car that sped from scene”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, China Insider:

A county of Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Puyang

Shantung, Hopei and Honan troops are all converging on Puyang, in the extreme south of Hopei near the Hopei-Shantung border, for a joint attack on the Liu rebels.

1932 June 25, “Concerted Drive on Communists Is Begun”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 61, number 4, →OCLC, page 138, column 2:

A celadon jar with lotus pattern of the sixth century found at Puyang, Honan.

1976, “Celadons, Old and New”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:

It’s in poor places like Puyang that the ruling Communist party’s battle to narrow China’s yawning wealth gap will be won or lost.
Many residents of this county town about six hours’ drive south of Beijing say their lives have improved thanks to tax cuts and increased spending on education, medical insurance and welfare.
But not everyone is content. Puyang, nestled in the northeastern corner of Henan province, is a study in contrasts.

2008 January 17, Liangi Chiang, “Corruption blurs China's goal of harmonious society”, in Alan Wheatley, Megan Goldin, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-01-09, Business News:

A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.


Taiqian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 台前.

In Henan, out-of-plan cotton mills set up illegal purchasing stations in Taiqian County, bid up prices, and fought with official stations for farmers’ crops.

2003, Andrew H. Wedeman, “Export Protectionism”, in From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

Six people were killed and six injured in three detonator blast accidents in a central Chinese province, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
The first accident happened on Sunday when villagers in Taiqian county, Henan province, were making detonators in a residential building.

2007 July 17, “Six killed in three China detonator blasts”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-18, Latest Crisis:

Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.

2017 January 4, Liu Zhen, “Don’t pay over 60,000 yuan for a bride, say Chinese officials”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-05, China:


Hualong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 化隆 (Huàlóng).

"The aim of the warning shots was to stop local people from obstructing construction work," the government of Qinghai's Hualong Hui Autonomous County said in a statement.

2014 August 15, Gao Shan, Wen Yuqing, Luisetta Mudie, “Chinese Police Fire 'Warning Shots' Amid Clashes Over Solar Farm”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2014-08-26:

A Hui autonomous county in Haidong, Qinghai, China.


Hualong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 華龍 /华龙.

But behind the impressive infrastructure already in Puyang, that includes broad streets and big squares, is a mountain of local debt. According to a government document, Hualong, the downtown district that houses the current railway station and future high-speed railway terminal, had implicit off-budget liability – borrowing through local financing vehicles or from guaranteeing local development loans – of 2.6 billion yuan (US$378 million) at the end of June 2018, three times its on-budget debt.

2019 July 8, Frank Tang, “China struggling with slow progress on high-speed rail network expansion due to local financing problems”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-08, China Economy:

Among the 8 urban cancer registration areas, the age-specific incidence rate of lung cancer in males was the highest in Hualong District of Puyang City (82.90/105), followed by Luohe City and Shihe District of Xinyang City. In females, it was the highest in Hualong District of Puyang City (45.92/105), followed by Luoyang City and Shihe District of Xinyang City. The highest age-standardized mortality rates in both males (74.57/105) and female (22.87/105) were in Hualong District of Puyang City. (Figure 5-10g)

2020, Jiangong (张建功) Zhang, edited by 张韶凯 [Zhang Shaokai], 2019河南省肿瘤登记年报 [Cancer Report in Henan, 2019], 河南科学技术出版社, →ISBN, page https://books.google.com/books?id=8BQpEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT260:


Qingfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清豐 /清丰.

頓邱 A district belonging to the Wei State 衛國. It was located about 25 li southwest of what is now Ch’ing-fêng-hsien 清豐縣 Hopei.

[1934, “The Travels of Emperor Mu”, in Chêng Tê-k’un, transl., Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1934, volume LXV, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, →OCLC, page 135:

Two men have been detained in Qingfeng county, Puyang , for allegedly using nude photos and sex videos to blackmail dozens of prostitutes,[…]

2013 February 1, “China Digest, February 1, 2013”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20, China:

The youngsters, aged seven and nine, had gone with their mother Li Xiaoli at the end of last month to visit a man-made lake near the village of Xizhaolou in Qingfeng county, in central China's Henan province.

2015 March 5, Corey Charlton, “Begging for forgiveness, woman whose daughters were saved by student who drowned as he pulled them from a lake... only for the mother to tell her girls to LIE about his death in case she was blamed”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2015-04-20:


Nanle

In 1993, the district government’s unreasonable grain tax incited a collective tax refusal by the peasant inhabitants of Jing Degu village in Jing Degu district in Nanle county (Henan province).

1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “Everyday Forms of Resistance”, in Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175:

In another case in Nanle County of Henan, the authorities arrested the leader of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and several coworkers. This Christian leader in the officially sanctioned church had engaged in a series of weiquan activities.

2016, Fenggang Yang, “The Growth and Dynamism of Chinese Christianity”, in Christianity and Freedom, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:

Meanwhile, the Weiquanwang rights website reported growing fears for the health of Henan Protestant pastor Zhang Shaojie, who is halfway through a 12-year jail term for "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order" after his church ran afoul of authorities in Henan's Nanle county.[...]
After officials seized control of Zhang's state-sanctioned church in 2013, sealing it off from the congregation, hundreds of Protestant worshipers from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, and Beijing converged on Nanle county over Christmas to show support for the church, which was a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Three-Self Patriotic Association of Protestant churches.

2019 December 23, Gao Feng, Wang Yun, “Beijing Denies Report of 'Forced Labor' Hidden in Christmas Card Made in China”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2019-12-23:


Neihuang

The tenants of Qiankou village in Henan’s Neihuang county, for example, traditionally entreated their landlords in land-rent matters, but their entreatment was articulated out of the expectation that the landlord ought to live up to his obligation to make land available, share the crop on an equitable basis, and reduce the rent after a meager harvest.

1983, Ralph Thaxton, China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

Shen Ch’uan-ch’i (656-715) was from Neihuang in Honan province and served at the court of Empress Wu.

2003, Red Pine, transl., Poems of the Masters, Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 185:

State-run China Central Television said Zhou was involved in a neighborhood dispute but did not provide details. It said Zhou fled his home in Neihuang county Sunday after allegedly injuring three people.

2013 August 20, “3 killed in central China bus stabbings”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-08:


Tangyin

湯陰／汤阴 (Tāngyīn)

In Anyang we first went south to Tangyin county, which is the birth place of Yo Fei, the Sung dynasty people’s hero. In the temple dedicated to him there, effigies of the traitors who betrayed him are cast in iron and are an to kneel in front of his great image. Members of his family have looked after this temple for generations and one of its most ewe possessions is a long scroll in his handwriting.

1965 April, Rewi Alley, “From Taipeh Shan to Taihang Shan”, in Eastern Horizon, volume IV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

Second, the oracle bones eventually led to the archaeological site at An-yang and to its scientific excavation. When the inscribed oracle bones first came on the market, the merchants maintained that they came from both T'ang-yin 湯陰 and An-yang in Honan.

[1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Prolegomena: Five Doors to Shang”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

The rotting carcasses of dead animals easily produce pathogens, but disinfection material is insufficient, the semi-official China Animal Agriculture Association said on its website, after the farms in Tangyin county were flooded.

2021 July 27, Hallie Gu Gu, Shivani Singh, “Flood-hit Chinese county needs disinfectants to tackle dead livestock”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-27, China:


Wenfeng

Encouraging the Return of Lost Property
Zhao Chenguang (official with Wenfeng District People's Procuratorate in Anyang City, Henan Province): People are educated about returning money found from a very young age, however[…]

2005, Beijing Review, volume 44, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:

This chapter mainly discusses some factors that influence the name of the restaurants. All examples are from the names of the restaurants registered in Wenfeng District, Anyang city in 1st Jan.2017-1st Jan.2018.

2020, Cui Jing, “The Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Names of the Local Restaurants--Taking Wenfeng District in Anyang Cty^([sic – meaning City]) as An Example”, in IETI Transactions on Social Sciences and Humanities, volume 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-09, page 5:

The fire broke out at Kaixinda Trading Co. in the Wenfeng District, or "High-tech Zone," in Anyang City, the report said.

2022 November 21, “Factory Fire Kills 36 in China; 2 People Missing”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2022-11-22:

Objective: To explore the effectiveness of art therapy based on painting in ADHD intervene for classroom interfering behaviors. Methods: A total of 60 children with ADHD were randomly selected from three primary schools in Wenfeng District, Anyang City, Henan Province.

2022 November 28, Yan Chen, Yong Li, “Art therapy based on painting for classroom interfering behaviors in ADHD intervention.”, in Chinese Journal of School Health, volume 43, number 9, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

For opposite judgment, see the case of an appeal of dispute over catering service contract between Zheng Kunfeng et al. and Ziwei Liufu Roast Goose Restaurant in Wenfeng District of Anyang City (Anyang Intermediate People's Court of Henan Province (2011) An Min Yi Zhong Zi No.394).

2023, Jiayong Zhang, “Legal Regulation in the Overlapping Field at the Stage of Performance of Contract”, in Shiquan Sun, transl., Modes of Regulation in the Intermediate Field Between Contract Law and Tort Law: A Chinese Law Perspective, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 255:


Beiguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北關 /北关 (Běiguān).

On November 21, 1996, the Beiguan District People's Court in Anyang sentenced Guo to five years in prison.

1997, Beijing Review, volume 40, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 3:

Local government shares very little information between different sectors, which makes it necessary to establish specialized information database of aged population. In the pilot project of CNCA, local committees take the opportunity of implementing established community population files for the elderly. For example in the Beiguan district city of Anyang Henan province, over 35,000 seniors basic data as been entered in the information database.

2013, Fengchun Yang, “The Aging Society and ICT Application in China”, in Aging Society and ICT: Global Silver Innovation, IOS Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

The lawsuit was filed at the People's Court of Beiguan District, Anyang, in China’s Henan province on May 6.

2021 May 7, Gustavo Henrique Ruffo, “Auto Shanghai 2021 Chinese Protester Sues Tesla For Defamation”, in InsideEVs, archived from the original on 2021-05-07:

Consequently, in September 2021, a monitoring initiative was executed across five distinct areas within Anyang City, encompassing Linzhou City, Long'an District, Yindu District, Beiguan District and Anyang County.[…]
We performed two-dimensional PCA analysis on the water quality data normalized for 2020 (Fig. 2a), which revealed that Linzhou and Yindu were situated in the region where PC1 was less than 0.3, while Beiguan and Anyang were located in the region where PC1 was greater than 0.9.

2024 June 5 [2024 January 16], Shengqiang Tu, Qingqian Li, Lei Nie, Hongjie Gao, Huibin Yu, “Appling^([sic – meaning Applying]) fluorescence spectroscopy with absolute principal component coefficient to explore dynamic migration of DOM fractions from an urbanized river during torrential rainfall”, in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, volume 314, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-08:


Long'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 隆安 (Lóng'ān).

The crash happened at 10am when the bus, apparently swerving to avoid a cyclist, plunged down a cliff in Pingshan village, Long'an county, about 70km west of Nanning. It was on its way to the De Tian Waterfall on the China-Vietnam border.

2002 February 15, “Mainland to complete crash probe in three weeks”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-18:

A county of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Long'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍安 /龙安 (Lóng'ān).

The parities and litter sizes of 204 litters of piglets from 2012 to 2014 in Nongjiabao Pig Farm in Long'an District of Anyang city were investigated to study the reproductive performance of LandracexYorkshire sow according to the parities and hybridization seasons.

2014, Wenshuai (李文帅) Li, 郭吉利 [Guo Jili], “胎次和配种季节对长大二元母猪繁殖性能的影响 [Influence of Different Parities and Mating Seasons on the Reproductive Performance of LandracexYorkshire Sow]”, in 养猪 [Swine Production], number 4, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-12, page 44:

The brick tomb dating back to the Sui Dynasty (581-618) was found in Long’an District in the city of Anyang, said Jiao Peng, director of the excavation department under the city’s research institute of cultural relics and archaeology, the Xinhua news agency reported.

2021 January 5, Indo-Asian News Service, “China: 1400-year-old tomb discovered in Henan”, in The Siasat Daily, archived from the original on 2021-01-05:

The third clip, which runs from 1:25 to 1:38, shows an aerial view of firefighters draining floodwaters on a main road in Anyang’s Long’an district on Thursday afternoon, the fire department said.

2021 July 22, “Henan Firefighters Rescue Residents From 'Record' Flooding in Anyang, China”, in Yahoo!, archived from the original on 2023-09-09:


Linzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 林州 (Línzhōu).

Linfeng Aluminium, based in Linzhou in Henan province, also produces aluminium bars and aluminium alloy bars, and has installed electric power generating capacity of 110 megawatts.

2007 November 6, “China's Zhongfu to buy mid-sized aluminium producer”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-13, Oil Report:

Further evidence comes from Linzhou County, Henan Province, in north China, however, whose boundaries encompass an area of about 2,000km² of dry, hilly country with a rapidly industrialising city at its core, and a population of about a million.

2008 June, Oliver Tickell, “Nitrates and cancer”, in The Ecologist, volume 38, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

The relationship between nitrate concentration in drinking water and esophageal cancer has been inconclusive. We investigated this association in the representative high-risk areas of Linzhou and Anyang City.

2010, T.T. Yu, A.G. Zhou, X.Q. Li, H.S. Cai, Y.D. Liu, “Nitrate in drinking water in relation to the incidence and mortality of esophageal cancer, Linzhou-Anyang area, China”, in Water-Rock Interaction XIII, CRC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 497:

A county-level city of Anyang, Henan, China.


Shancheng

The Hebi Municipal CCP Committee, Henan, recently took stern actions against Zhang Tianpu, secretary of the Shancheng district carton plant party branch in Hebi Municipality, who embezzled over 3,300 jin of grain from January 1975 to July 1976 and persecuted Lu Binmei, a staff member of the plant who discovered the embezzlement and reported it to the grain departments.

1980 April 11 [1980 April 2], “Henan Corruption Case”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 072, →ISSN, →OCLC, page P 3:

Also in Henan, a 13-year-old girl from Shancheng District of Hebi City was beaten to death by her own mother, probably because of her poor academic record.

2021, Dongping Yang, “Toward Educational Modernization: Strengthening Institutions and Increasing Capacity”, in Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development, volume 5, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:


Qibin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淇濱／淇滨 (Qíbīn, literally “Qi River (淇河) shore”); replacement for the name Jiao District 郊區／郊区 (Jiāoqū) from 2001.

郊區／郊区 (Jiāoqū)

In the second order, the population of Qibin District and Heshan District is 85,971 and 68,402 respectively, the sum of which is 154,373.

2010, Y. Chen, “Scaling Analysis of the Cascade Structure of the Hierarchy of Cities”, in Bin Jiang, Xiaobai Yao, editors, Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 109–110:

In its quest for new economic growth in the reform period, the local state of Hebi decided to establish a new growth center away from the hilly mining areas, where the environment and transportation were both less than desirable. The Qibin District was built as the new growth center for Hebi City. The construction of an ETDZ at Qibin as a greenfield project in an agricultural area was far easier and more desirable than building such a center in any of the mining areas, where transportation and the physical environment were, and still are, inconvenient and unattractive.

2011, Liu Yungang et al., “Local state and administrative urbanization in post-reform China: A case study of Hebi City, Henan Province”, in Cities, published 2012, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 111, column 1:

In the surrounding areas of Qibin District, Hebi City in the north of northern Henan, the content of element zinc in wheat grains is high.

2017, Ruixue (夏瑞雪), et al. Xia, “豫北地区小麦籽粒矿质元素含量分析 [Analysis of Mineral Element Content of Wheat in Northern Area of Henan Province]”, in 核农学报 [Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences], volume 31, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-30:


Xinxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄉 /新乡 (Xīnxiāng).

Hsin-hsiang (alternative)
Sinsiang (alternative)

Despite these restrictions on the very largest cities, however, it was our impression on the trip that many intermediate cities were being allowed to grow. For example, in Hsinhsiang City in north Honan Province where we spent several days, there had been a tremendous growth in new factories in the last twenty years and a correspondingly great growth in population.

[1977, “The Imapct of Small-scale Industry on Chinese Society”, in Rural Small-scale Industry in the People's Republic of China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 219-220:

The letters of reply from the party committees of Henan Province and Xinxiang Region show that they have taken a clear stand and assumed a serious posture with regard to this case.

1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:

In Xinxiang, a city north of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital at the center of the disaster, about 100 people were stranded on the second floor of an elementary school.

2021 July 22, Keith Bradsher, Steven Lee Myers, “‘The Water Came So Fast’: Floods Leave Scores Stranded in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22:


Huixian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 輝縣 /辉县 (Huīxiàn).

From the city of Xinxiang, get a bus to Huixian, then switch to a Nanping-bound bus.

2016, Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton, “East Asia”, in Atlas Obscura, New York: Workman Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150, column 2:

“The most, most crucial thing is that we don’t have food at the moment. We haven’t eaten since the morning,” said Li Xiqin, chief of the Gongji Hospital of Huixian city, where flooding has left her stranded on the hospital premises with 380 nursing home residents, 150 patients and 150 staff members.[...]On Wednesday, Xinxiang, a city of 5 million that includes Huixian, reported a two-hour rainfall rivaling the deluge in Zhengzhou, local news outlets reported.

2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to at least 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2021-07-22:

Born in 2005 in Huixian City of central Henan province, Liu, whose nickname is B-Girl 671, is one of the country’s young, hungry talents, and sits in the higher echelon of the female breakdancing world.

2024 August 8, Meredith Chen, “Liu Qingyi: China’s breaking prodigy aiming to make more history at Paris Olympics”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-09, Paris Olympics 2024:

A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.


北關

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯än⁵⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ kʷaːn⁵⁵/

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯än⁵⁵/

/pɐk̚⁵ kʷaːn⁵⁵/

(～區) Beiguan (a district of Anyang, Henan, China)


Weihui

In two days we came to Weihui, and the land part of the journey was now over.

1901, Clive Bigham, A Year in China, 1899-1900, London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 35:

On February 28 Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang went to Weihui to direct his men in crossing the Yellow River.

1930, Jermyn Chi-hung Lynn, “The Mukden Party”, in Political Parties in China, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 205:

This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4. A donkey meat-seller engaged four men to walk down the main street, past the social security office, dressed as "devils" - the Japanese soldiers that occupied China in the Second World War.

2008 November 12, “Scandal in China: soldiers work for butchery”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2021-09-19:

“Please pay attention to Xinxiang, Weihui and Anyang,” one user pleaded on the microblogging site Weibo. “Villages are being drowned; mudslides are starting and there are already too many people in need of help at collapsed roads.”
“In the small city of Weihui, it’s been raining for three days already,” said another user. “Some villages have been relying entirely on local residents without any outside support!”

2021 July 22, Pei Lin Wu, Rebecca Tan, “Death toll in China floods climbs to 33 as rains spread and more cities call for help”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22, Asia:


Fengquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鳳泉 /凤泉.

This article takes one of the abandoned land of malm mining, which is located in the suburbs of Fengquan District in Xinxiang City of Henan Province, as its research zone to explore the new mode of the environmental governance of abandoned land.

2014, Yichuan Zhang, Jiangping Wang, Lifang Qian, “Ecological Governance Research on Suburban Abandoned Land of Malm Mining Based on the Concept of Cost-effectiveness”, in Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, volume 19, number 22, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-28, page 10071:

Business owner Han Yuan and her employees loaded boxes of disinfectant onto a truck for delivery to the city’s Fengquan district, one of the worst-hit areas. “This is the city that raised me, and every one of us is devoting all we have to protect this city,” she said.
Three military helicopters were used to bring drinking water, medicine, food and other relief items to about 20,000 people in inaccessible areas, including Xinxiang’s Hongzhou and Yuhe townships, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

2021 July 25, Drake Kang, “China sends supplies to flooded area, rebuilds barriers”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-07-25:

Fengquan district is relatively small. We visited all 5 towns and townships, while in other districts, we visited 8–9 towns and townships, respectively.

2021 November 13, Wei Xu, Fen Xu, Yunzhe Liu, Dan Zhang, “Assessment of rural ecological environment development in China’s moderately developed areas: a case study of Xinxiang, Henan province”, in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:


Muye

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牧野 (Mùyě).

* Says signs smart city strategic cooperation framework agreement with people’s government of Muye District, Xinxiang
* Says to build city cloud data center and public service platform in Muye

2015 December 24, “BRIEF-Enjoyor Co signs smart city cooperation framework agreement”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-09-09, Technology, Media and Telecommunications:


Hongqi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅旗 /红旗 (Hóngqí, literally “red flag”).


Huojia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 獲嘉 /获嘉.

At the time of the poet’s birth, his father Li Ssu was serving as magistrate of Huo-chia district (in modern Honan).

[1969, James J. Y. Liu, “Biographical Sketch”, in The Poetry of Li Shang-yin, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:

[…]of the Kangtsun Commune in Huochia County in the central province of Honan have launched an upsurge in spring cultivation work and preparations for spring farming.

[1969, Hsinhua Selected News Items, numbers 1-26, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:

Still others sternly criticize the inspection team of the Hsinhsiang Prefectural CCP Committee and the Huochia County CCP Committee for its attempt to cover up Comrade Liu Wen-hao. Comrade Ma Ming-hsi, secretary of the Huochia County CCP Committee and former leader of the Hsinhsiang Prefectural CCP Committee's work team stationed in Huochia County, also sent us a letter saying that he was willing to accept the criticism of newspapers and masses.

[1978 July 17 [1978 July 10], “Make Revolution and Don't Practice 'Officials Covering Up For Officials'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 137, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 3:

In February, we received a letter signed the poor and lower middle peasants of Xiaoxiguan Brigade located in Huojia County, Henan, exposing Liu Wenhao, a national government cadre in their brigade and the vice-director of the county external trade bureau, for his squandering and wastefulness in holding a wedding feast for his son. We sent the letter to the Chinese Communist Party Committee of Xinxiang Region, asking them to help us investigate. The Xinxiang Regional Committee, together with the Huojia County Committee, organized an investigation team to do some on-the-spot research.

1980, “The Masses Dare to Speak”, in Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 191–192:


Yuanyang

The same report also said that between six and seven thousand Moslems in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, staged an armed uprising last July.

1975 December 28, “Calling for independence”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

Yuanyang terraced fields lie within the Yuanyang county of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, on the south part of Ailao Mountain, They are majestic and extend through the whole of Honghe, Yuanyang, Lüchun and Jinping counties on the south bank of the Honghe River. Only within Yuanyang county does it cover an area of about 17,000 mu (a Chinese unit, one mu equals about 667 sq. m), which makes Yuanyang the core area of the Honghe Hani terraced fields.

2010, Dong Huai, “Yuanyang Terraced Fields”, in Discovering China: 50 Amazing Places in China, Better Link Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 140:

In fact, some of the seventy-three counties in Yunnan classified as poor contained attractive areas, yet few of these received either provincial or central government support for tourism development. For instance, the spectacular terraced rice fields of Yuanyang county in Honghe prefecture, designed 1,000 years ago during the Tang dynasty, are of a style rarely found in China.

2011, John A. Donaldson, Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China, Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111:

My room has an unobstructed vista of the terraces cascading down the valley like a muddy waterfall. The night is serenaded by a frog chorus and at dawn I’m up with the rooster crow, ready to test my walking boots.
Tourism in Yuanyang county has been designed for the tour-bus class, who follow a loop road around the valley, stopping off at various platforms to photograph the rice terraces but missing the points of interest in between.

2020 July 4, Thomas Bird, “Hiking the Yuanyang rice terraces - get off the beaten track for the real deal”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-05, Travel:


Yanjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延津 (Yánjīn).

Three counties in Honan along the old course of the Yellow River in an area with poor soil covering either sandy and saline-alkali land or fields liable to drought or waterlogging, waged stubborn struggles against the natural disasters of flood, salinity and alkalinity, drought, and sandstorms. In 1968 the Yenchin County Revolutionary Committee led the people in digging irrigation canals, draining waterlogged areas, leaching alkaline and saline soil, and planting trees.

[1975, “Three Former Grain-Deficient Provinces Show Surpluses”, in New China's First Quarter-Century [新中国的二十五年], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, sourced from Hsinhua News Agency and Chinese newspapers, →OCLC, page 188:

The revolutionary committee of Yenchin county, Honan province, mobilized the masses to first, examine what living ideas the cadres transferred to lower levels have; secondly[…]

[1978, Warren Kuo, editor, A Comprehensive Glossary of Chinese Communist Terminology, →OCLC, page 220, column 1:

Most counties in Henan have dozens of meetings, whether officially registered or not. A Christian in Yanjin County wrote that there were more than 100 ‘large and small meeting-points’ with ‘2,000 registered Christians and many unregistered’.

1991, Tony Lambert, “'Christianity Fever': The Growth of the Church”, in The Resurrection of the Chinese Church, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:


Yanjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽津 /盐津.


Fengqiu

/ˌfʌŋˈt͡ʃjoʊ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 封邱 /封丘 (Fēngqiū).

"A New Era of Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants Taking the Rostrum Has Begun." (January 11, 1969).[…]
[The article] Reports the formation of lecture groups of poor and lower-middle peasants and their teaching in rural schools in Feng-ch'iu County, Honan Province.

[1972, Stewart E. Fraser, Hsu Kuang-liang, “Periodical Articles”, in China: The Cultural Revolution: Its Aftermath and Effects on Education and Society: A Select and Partially Annotated Bibliography, University of London Institute of Education Library, →OCLC, page 75:

Back at Sinhsiang, we spent an evening watching the acrobats of Fengchiu. Fengchiu in north-eastern Honan has a reputation for producing the best acrobats, and they certainly put on an original show.

[1974, Rewi Alley, “In an Ancient Kingdom the First People's Commune”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XIII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1:

"This village is just old people and children," said Du Shicheng, 51, a farmer in Fengqiu County whose two adult children work at a cellphone factory in the east. "Everyone else has already left."

2008 March 10, “Shrinking Chinese work force pushes wages up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-19, International Business:

Two young love-struck brothers were caught and severely scolded by police on Monday for knocking on the window of a 14-year-old girl every night in Fengqiu county, Xinxiang , Dahe.cn reports. The boys, whose ages were not given, had both failed in their pursuit of the girl.

2012 August 15, “China Digest”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from Xinhua News Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-01, China:


Changyuan

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwɑn/

Comrade Chiao Chun-liang was an operator in Chengchow Municipal Telecommunications Bureau. He was a native of Changyuan County, Honan, and was born in the family of a lower-middle peasant in the spring of 1936.

1976 May 5 [1976 May 4], “Chengchow, Honan Honors Man Slain in Riot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 88, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page H 1; republished as Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, 1976, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

A county in central China plans in-depth checks on how its officials’ treat their parents, with those who are nice to their mum and dad first in line for promotion, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
Up to 500 family members, friends, colleagues and neighbours will be grilled by special investigators about the behaviour of each official from Changyuan county, including their family values and any drinking or gambling habits, the report said.

2007 April 7, “Want a promotion? Treat mum well says China county”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-02, Oddly Enough:


Lankao

From Mandarin 蘭考 /兰考 (Lánkǎo), Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.

1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6:

He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County.

1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 160–161:

Lankao County in Honan
In the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan.

1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 6:

“The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.
Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said.

2014 March 18, “China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, Emerging Markets:


Xiangfu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祥符.

The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and Henan province⁵ mention a surprisingly large number of Kaifeng Jews and their successes in Chinese society with dates.

1998, Donald Daniel Leslie, “Chinese Native Sources”, in Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series), volume XLIV, Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:

China Fortune Land Development Co Ltd :
* Says it signs MoU with government of Xiangfu District, Kaifeng City to provide development, construction and operation service within the fields authorized by the government

2017 March 30, “BRIEF-China Fortune Land Development signs MoU with local government”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-07-31, Financials:

In January 2013, as part of the project to develop Henan section of the passenger-dedicated railway between the cities of Zhengzhou and Xuzhou, which was jointly invested by the People's Government of Henan Province and the Ministry of Railways under the central government, more than 120 mu of land of Yanlingfu Village, Duliang Township, Xiangfu District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, was occupied, and as compensation for the land, a total of RMB6,429,540 yuan was paid to the Yanlingfu Village, at the rate of RBM^([sic – meaning RMB]) 52,000 yuan per mu of land.

2021, Xiaoyang Shang, “The People v. Yang X and Shi X (Misappropriation of Public Funds): Assessment and Application of the "Special Circumstances" Warranting a Sentence Lesser than the Statutory Penalties”, in Selected Cases from the Supreme People’s Court of the People's Republic of China, volume 2, Law Press China, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134:


Shunhe

Shi Zhongyu, who works in the Bureau of Industry and Commerce in the Shunhe district, and factory workers Zhao Pingyu and Li Shichang, tell me that people of their great-grandparents’ generation married pretty much within the seven Surnames.

2003, Xin Xu, “The Inner Life of Kaifeng Jewry”, in The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion, Ktav Publishing House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

The Lishiting Catholic Church in the Shunhe district of Kaifeng reopened on June 14 with around 20 people as a priest led the required ceremony supervised by government officials, according to Bitter Winter.

2020 July 8, Caleb Parke, “China churches ordered to praise Xi Jinping's handling of coronavirus before reopening, watchdog says”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 2020-07-08:

A Hui district in Kaifeng, Henan, China.


Yuwangtai

It can be concluded that the coupling degree of Yuwangtai District is the lowest; the coupling degree of the Shunhe Huizu area is higher, the coupling degree of Longting District is higher, and the coupling degree of Gulou District is the highest.

2020, Yang Xiqing et al., “Spatial Distribution Analysis of Convenience Stores in Kaifeng City Based on POI Data”, in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-02, page 4:

On January 5th, 2021, the Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation and Exchange Meeting between Yuwangtai District and CCCE was held in the conference room of Yuwangtai District Government. Under the leadership of the vice dean Xu Yuanqing, ten teachers of CCCE had face-to-face communication with Wang Xuhe, deputy head of Yuwangtai District, and other government leaders, as well as the heads of 12 key enterprises in the district. On the cooperation between the district and the school and the enterprise, three parties reached a broad consensus, and determined the specific plan of cooperation.

2021 January 6, “CCCE Participated in District-College Cooperation Exchange Meeting for Science and Technology Innovation”, in College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Henan University [河南大学化学与分子科学学院], archived from the original on 2024-08-16:

河南大学化学与分子科学学院

In order to let children understand the traditional customs of the Chinese nation, cultivate their hands-on skills, and let them feel the unique happiness and happiness in winter, at the approaching of the winter solstice, Minxiang Street Kindergarten in Yuwangtai District launched the "Warm and Happy Winter" "Winter Solstice" theme activity.

2021 December 21, “Minxiang Street Kindergarten in Yuwangtai District launched the theme activity of “Warm Winter and Happy Winter Solstice“”, in DayDayNews, archived from the original on 2022-02-26:

The “High-Low” cluster area is mainly distributed in Yuwangtai District, Kaifeng City. The “Low-High”cluster areas are mainly distributed in Huiji District and Shangjie District, and then gradually disappear.

2023, Li Jin-Feng et al., “Research on the Spatial-time Evolution and Influence Mechanism of Logistics Network Structure in Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area”, in IEEE Access, volume XX, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-15, page 9, column 2:


Gulou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鼓樓 /鼓楼 (Gǔlóu).

The Christian hospital, University Hospital at Kulou, Nanking, was described as going on with its medical and evangelistic work, a most interesting feature of which was the work for the reclamation through faith and prayer of narcotic addicts, conducted by Mr. Glazier of the China Inland Mission.

[1942 August, P. Frank Price, “A Notable Issue of The Chinese Christian Intelligencer”, in The Presbyterian Survey, volume 32, number 8, Presbyterian Church in the United States, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 368, column 2:

The city’s main thoroughfare, Chungshanlu, traverses the walled area from Siakwan to the Chungshan hills, east of Nanking. It passes the Kulou district, an area of parks and residences, and Hsinchiehkow, the central business district.

[1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Lower Yangtze Plain”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140:

At the time of the elections (1980) Nanjing was subdivided into three suburban counties (xian) and nine urban districts (qu). This portion of this chapter will focus on election work in two of those districts, Baixia and Gulou. Gulou district, with a population of about 300,000, is Nanjing’s largest district and is located in the center of the city.

1990, Barrett L. McCormick, “Elections to Local People's Congresses”, in Political Reform in Post-Mao China: Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Leninist State, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 138:

Nanjing Gulou University Science Park (NGUSP) is jointly initiated by Nanjing University (NJU) and the government of Gulou District of Nanjing.

2004, “Nanjing Gulou University Science Park”, in Building a Successful Plant in China, Singapore: China Knowledge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:

As of Thursday, the Nanjing center said that about 30 chengguan had visited or telephoned requesting assistance. In interviews, other chengguan talked about the difficulties they face and where they need help.
Yu Gaozhong, 34, a chengguan who works in the city’s Gulou district, said he once tried discussing occupational pressures with a friend, who laughed and asked, “Isn’t it the street vendors who should be asking for sympathy?”

2016 September 29, Karoline Kan, “Chengguan, Widely Despised Officers in China, Find Refuge and a Kind Ear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-09-29, Asia Pacific:


Longting

On 6 November 2002, a Certificate of Registration issued by the Longting District government arrived; finally, the Jiuku miao again became a legitimate place of worship of the Female Way.

2011, Maria Jaschok, Shui Jingjun, Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:

Longting District People's Court in Kaifeng City sentenced Wang Songlin and Guo Shouhai to two years in prison and imposed jail terms of 12 to 18 months on Ding Zhongqiu, Luo Mingzhu, and Zhou Minghan.

2012 August 25, “5 cops jailed for torturing farmer to admit murder”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2012-08-25:


Weishi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 尉氏.

Similarly, Weishi county, also in eastern Henan, has 90,000 mou of such plantations, all sources of useful income in the several communes where they are located.

1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:

The crash occurred in Weishi county, Henan province, on a newly upgraded road that had not been opened, witnesses were quoted as saying.

2018 June 21, Jiaquan Zhou, “‘Drunk driver’ arrested after four children killed in car crash in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-21, Society:


Tongxu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 通許 /通许.

To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.

[1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1:

Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations. They also dislodged the Japanese from the nearby town of Tunghsu and disrupted the Lung-Hai Railway, cutting the Japanese line of supply to Kaifeng.

[1939 January, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVI, number 1 (369), →OCLC, page 211:

Zhang Jiannong has been working the same cotton field in Tongxu County, Henan Province, for the last twenty-two years — a half-acre plot leased to him after the break-up of the People’s Agricultural Collective in 1982. He pays $27 a year as an "agricultural tax" on his plot, and no property tax for his house. All of the 400 farmers in his village in the Yellow River floodplain grow cotton on plots of roughly the same size in rich alluvial soil. Ancient irrigation canals still water the area. Heavy rains come in the summer.

2005, Stephen Yafa, “Fields of Conflict”, in Big Cotton, Viking Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 328:

Villagers said the guards had been sent by officials of Tongxu County, which includes Zhushigang.[…]
A person answering the telephone at the Tongxu County government offices said he did not know anything about the demolition.

2016 January 8, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Golden Mao Statue in China, Nearly Finished, Is Brought Down by Criticism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-01-09, ASIA PACIFIC:


Minquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民權 /民权 (Mínquán).

Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang^([sic – meaning Huangchuang]) brigade of Lungtang commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that "the children's corps can do big things too: and staged a deceptive and despicable show that reversed black and white.

[1978 May 10 [1978 May 5], “A Despicable Act--Exposing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four's' Exploitation of the Little Red Guards”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 91, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 5:

In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had dropped by 49 percent.

1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:

Raised in a Christian home in Henan Province, Mr. Xu was fond of noting his birth in a county called Minquan, which translates as “civil rights.”

2009 August 9, Andrew Jacobs, “Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-07-02, Asia Pacific:


Ningling

Honan Province -- Kaifeng, Shangchiu, and Ningling counties of Kaifeng Special District are abolished. The administrative area of[...] the former Ningling county is transferred to Chu (7168) County.

1960, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 9:

In 2006, after his son died, Mr Zhou attempted to sue the hospital, but the court wouldn’t take up his case. In Ningling county, in Henan, over 100 people were recently found to have been infected via blood transfusion.

2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, “Dust and Heat: Black Mines in the Yellow River Region”, in Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:

For example, a court in Ningling county, Henan province, ruled in September that a man surnamed Song, who worked for a disease prevention and control centre in Suixian county, had accepted bribes of more than 1 million yuan (S$200,000) from several vaccine makers or agencies since July 2011, including 124,680 yuan from Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology.

2018 July 24, “Chinese pharmaceutical firm embroiled in vaccine scandal involved in several bribery cases, records show”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 2018-07-24:


Liangyuan

Rough statistics reveal that there were more than 14,000 laid-off workers in Liangyuan District, Shangqiu City, Henan Province last year, among whom women accounted for between 60 and 70 percent.

1999, Women of China, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:

A non-government school in Liangyuan District of Shangqiu, Dongzhen Primary School was set up to accept children from local AIDS families by Li Dan, a graduate student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2004 March 26, Chen Ying, “Just a Misunderstanding?”, in Beijing Today, number 147, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:

As we have seen, the people of Guide/Shangqiu have traced the history of their city back well before the Ming and especially to the Han period. The People's Republic has recognized that heritage by naming the district subordinate to Shangqiu city the Liangyuan qu (Liang Garden District) and the district subordinate to Guide the Suiyang qu (Suiyang District) (see Map 3).

2009, Roger Des Forges, “Tales of Three City Walls in China's Central Plain”, in Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 60–61:

There are more than 6,500 government employees in the transportation bureau of Liangyuan district in Shangqiu, Henan province alone.

2014 December 19, Yang Xin, “Truckers Forced to Pick Between Profits and Law”, in Beijing Today, number 705, →OCLC, page 2, columns 3, 4:


Yucheng

In only eight months, a 143 m dam was built on the Tuhai River in Yucheng county to impound 50 million m3 of water and irrigate 500 000 mow.

1972, Geography, Geographical Association, →OCLC, page 224:

The provincial government has designated thirty-four counties in Henan as officially impoverished (pinkun xian) according to the provincial criterion: an average annual per capita income below 500 yuan and total household assets valued at less than 8,000 yuan, based on 1990 prices. Since foreigners are still prohibited from entering most such areas, I was able to visit only those that had already benefited from international and government-supported microfinance programs (discussed below), specifically Yucheng County in the east and Nanzhao County in the southwest of the province.

2002, Kellee S. Tsai, “Creative Capitalists in Henan”, in Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 185:

State-run media outlet CGTN reports the dust storm arrived in central Henan’s Yucheng County at around 3 p.m. local time on Sunday (March 31). Winds whipped a large bouncy castle and other inflatable paraphernalia into the air, leaving a trail of destruction at the scenic spot.

2019 April 1, Ryan Drillsma, “Dust devil kills two, injures 20 in China's Henan Province”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2019-04-01, World:


Xiayi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏邑.

The editorial, which was published June 19, said the Yiwu farm had requisitioned about twenty acres of land and required 195 peasant families to exchange fifty-four more acres under such circumstances that a number of peasants later produced less on the poorer land they had received. Listing similar examples in Honan, the newspaper noted that the Hsiayi county farm had demanded land occupied by 2,000 families and that considerable opposition had been aroused when the Loyang district farm decided to take land scattered in fourteen villages.

[1972 [1953 July 2], Henry R. Lieberman, “Peiping Bids Reds Curb Land Reform”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China (The Great Contemporary Issues), New York: Arno Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:

In Honan’s Hsia-i County, Nien chieftain Hou Huang-le led two hundred relatives with the same surname, and in neighboring Shang-ch’iu, chieftain Chang San’s Nien following consisted of three hundred who shared his surname.[…]
Hsia-i County (Honan), 128

[1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 128, 319:

By the roadside of a pitched country road in Jiyang Village, stretching to Xiayi County, in Henan Province, in central China, a coffin was placed for three days prior to burial. From 16 to 19 October 2000, cars, motor vehicles, and villagers on bikes and on foot passed by and saw the coffin.[...]The name of the dead young man was Liu Haitao. He was born in Liu Fang Lou Village, Ji Yang Town in Xiayi County on 24 June 1979. He was 21 years old when he became a martyr for the Lord.

2006, Caroline Cox, Catherine Butcher, quoting Liu Haitao's Pastor, “A new martyr for a new millennium”, in Cox's Book of Modern Saints and Martyrs, Continuum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:

Employees work on the production line making clothes for export at a factory in Xiayi county, in Shangqiu in China’s central Henan province in August 2018. The Trump administration has focused on rectifying the US trade deficit with China.

2019 April 30, Stephen Roach, “Donald Trump’s case against China is deeply flawed and ignores weaknesses in the American economy”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-30, Opinion:


Yongcheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永城 (Yǒngchéng).

May 13.—Serious threat to Chinese position in Hsuchow area eaused by Japanese advance towards Lunghai Railway from south. Japanese column which captured (May 11) Yungcheng, in southeast Honan, near Anhwei-Shantung border, is only 60 kilometers from Lunghai Railway, west of Hsuchow. Situation at Yungcheng and Mengcheng (45 miles northwest of Pengpu) obscure; considerable fighting raging in vicinity of both cities, but report of their recapture by Chinese lacking confirmation.

[1938 June 11, “Outstanding Events in the Sino-Japanese War”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 85, number 2, →OCLC, page 59, column 2:

Wu Xinrong, also a Xiao county native, was a landlord who controlled a local armed force. He was also a mayor and had jurisdiction over the counties of Xiayi, Yongcheng (both in Henan), and Dangshan (Anhui). Liu Ziren, a native of Yongcheng county (Henan), was an old-style army commander. These three local power holders were recruited into the Communist camp at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War through coalition politics.

1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 205:

Li Xingong, who was the party’s deputy head in Yongcheng city in Henan province, was found guilty of assaulting the girls during police interrogations starting from the second half of 2011, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

2013 June 19, Ben Blanchard, “China executes official for child rapes after online uproar”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-14, WORLD NEWS:

A county-level city of Shangqiu, Henan, China, formerly a county.


Suiyang

The experimental site, situated in Wuqiying village (34°17′46″N, 115°22′57″E), Lema Township, Suiyang District, Shangqiu Municipality, Henan Province, China (Fig. 1), experienced a semi-humid temperate monsoon climate.

2024 July 1, Cheng Liu, Jing Tian, Lei Chen, Qunling He, Xiaoyu Liu, Rongjun Bian, Jufeng Zheng, Kun Cheng, Shaopan Xia, Xuhui Zhang, Jihua Wu, Lianqing Li, Stephen Joseph, Genxing Pan, “Biochar boosted high oleic peanut production with enhanced root development and biological N fixation by diazotrophs in a sand-loamy Primisol”, in Science of The Total Environment, volume 932, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-14:


Suiyang

The return journey was commenced in February by way of the Min river and Yangtse to Chungking. Thence a short trip was taken into Kweichow province, where Suiyang, about 50 miles from the northern border, was selected as a collecting-centre.

1899, F. W. Styan, “On Birds from West China”, in The Ibis, volume V, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 299:

In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province.

1978 [1954 November 10], Propaganda Department of the Suiyang County Party Committee, “Political Work in the Co-operatives”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 360:

中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）

China’s air force said a military plane crashed Monday during training in the southwestern province of Guizhou.[…]
The Beijing News said the plane went down in the county of Suiyang.

2018 January 29, “Chinese military plane crashes during training exercise”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-08-04:

Already a popular tourist destination, Shuanghe Cave in Guizhou's Suiyang County is set to welcome a new wave of visitors.

2018 May 7, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “9 reasons to visit Guizhou, China's next big travel destination”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2018-05-07: