Lianhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 蓮湖／莲湖 (Liánhú).

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[…]the Party committee of Peiyuanmen commune of Lienhu ch'u in Sian municipality has since the year before last set up outside-school cultural activity centers in the commune headquarters and in various neighborhood committees.

[1973, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 5308-5345, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:

The Qingnian Road Neighbourhood in the Lianhu District in particular has received foreigners.

1984, Simon Holledge, “Period Six: Xi'an under the People's Republic”, in Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 86:

On December 7, 1983, the branch bureau dragged in many people and sent dozens of armed men with a prison van to pull down a 12-square-meter asphalt felt shed in the backyard of Guo’s house (142, Qingnian Street, Xian City). By order of Liang Ping, vice president of the Lianhu District Court, they brutally raided Guo’s family!

1986, Binyan Liu, “The Rights and Wrongs over the Past Thirty-Eight Years”, in Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey, with Analysis, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

Downtown Xi'an is divided between two districts, Beilin and Lianhu.[…]
Lianhu District's apartments typically rent for $150-250 a month, though it is possible to find very modest places for less than $100 or large four-bedroom flats renting as high as a whopping $400.

2006, Stuart Strother, Barbara Strother, “Xi'an 西安”, in Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 390:

Wang Fengying and her co-accused Yang Janglin^([sic – meaning Jianglin]) said she was called Princess Changping and persuaded people to lend them money to help them get back assets worth billions of dollars held by authorities, the Lianhu District Court in Shaanxi province said.

2015 September 9, “Chinese farmer pretended to be princess to commit fraud”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-10-13:


Weiyang

Starting at the north city gate, the Weiyang District is home to the Xi'an ETDZ (Economic and Technology Development Zone).

2006, Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 391:

A man living in a newly constructed building in Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, was unable to obtain a birth registration form for his pregnant wife because no district was officially assigned to the building.
The problem was the building was in the northwestern province’s Weiyang district, but built by another district government.

2018 August 18, Windy Li, “Heartaches, headaches and hukou: how China’s bureaucracy tangled people in red tape”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-18, People & Culture:

The exhibition will run until March 20. Xi’an IMIX PARK, where the exhibition is held, is conveniently located in the city’s Weiyang district, an area known for economic development and robust business activity.

2022 February 13, “China-Chic Art Exhibition Flourishing Recall of Tang Dynasty opens at Xi’an IMIX PARK”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2022-02-13:


Baqiao

/ˌbɑːˈt͡ʃjaʊ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 灞橋 /灞桥.

In 1957 several dozen pieces of coarse paper were found in a Han dynasty tomb in Pachiao near Sian in Shensi province.

[1972 June, “Who Invented Paper?”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, columns 1–2:

Chen Zhongshi was born in 1942 in a village near Sian, Shanxi province.[...]He is at present working at the Cultural Center, Baqiao district, Sian.

1983, “Author's Biographies”, in Helen Siu, Zelda Stern, editors, Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page Ii:

The drapery details around the ankles are also similar to the flattened and scalloped drapery visible at the ankles of the five monumental Buddhas recently unearthed in Wanzi village, in the Baqiao district of Xi’an (see Zhao Liguang’s essay, figs. 1-4, 5).

2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Buddhist Sculpture and the Beilin Collection: A Perspective”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:

In this paper, situation and trend of vegetable industry in Xinzhu subdistrict Baqiao district Xi’an city were analyzed, development course of the industry after liberation was briefly reviewed, current situation and main achievements were studied as well as main problems by means of literature consulting, area investigation, units inquiry and statistical analysis.

2008, Li Wei [李维], “Study on Development of Vegetable Industry in Xinzhu [新筑蔬菜产业发展研究]”, in Northwest A&F University (Thesis), archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

本文采用查阅资料、实地调查、走访单位、统计分析的方法,分析了国内外蔬菜产业发展现状与趋势,简要回顾了西安市灞桥区新筑街道办建国后蔬菜产业发展历程,研究了新筑蔬菜产业发展现状和取得的主要成效,分析了新筑蔬菜产业发展中存在的突出问题。


Gaoling

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高陵 (Gāolíng).

On 22 January, 140 young couples held a collective marriage ceremony in Kaoling County.[…]
In the struggle to expose and criticize the gang of four, the Kaoling County CCP Committee has resolved to grasp destroying the old and establishing the new, holding thrifty weddings and conducting education in late marriage as a major matter.

[1978 February 8 [1978 February 3], “Shensi County Holds Collective Marriage Ceremony”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 4:

The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power to the elevator a month ago without checking if anyone was inside
In a statement posted Saturday, the Gaoling district government said two maintenance workers turned off the power source on Jan. 30 to the elevator in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch.

2016 March 6, “Chinese woman dies in elevator with power improperly cut off”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-31:

But now this death in Xi’an — the northwestern city famed for its ancient entombed terra-cotta warriors — has stirred protest and a nationwide roar of anger by people furious that lax building management that can turn trivial acts, like riding an elevator, into fatal traps, news reports and Internet accounts said on Monday.
Hundreds of residents in the Gaoling District of the city, where the woman died confined between the 10th and 11th floors of her apartment building, gathered to rally last week, according to photographs and accounts on Chinese websites.

2016 March 7, Chris Buckley, “Death of Chinese Woman Trapped in Elevator for Month Stokes Uproar”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-03-07, Asia Pacific:

In October 2016, authorities cracked down on a citizen protest involving thousands in Gaoling district of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, also over a planned incinerator. Public security bureau officials reportedly took hundreds of participants into custody, beat protestors, did not allow journalists to cover the demonstrations, and censored internet postings (CHRD 2017b).

2019, Anna Brettell, “Examining China's compliance to emerging international norms regarding environmental rights”, in Sarah Biddulph, Joshua Rosenzweig, editors, Handbook on Human Rights in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:


Yanliang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 閻良 /阎良.

The outer suburbs of Xi’an, in which there are 108,000 hectares of farmland, are the municipality’s agricultural districts. The majority of the farmland is in the northern and north-eastern suburbs and the Yanliang District.

1985, Zhenglin Ma, “Xi'an: The Metropolis of North-West China”, in Victor F.S. Sit, editor, Chinese Cities: The Growth of the Metropolis Since 1949, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161:

Yanliang district, 45 km from Xi'an, is China’s most important base for aircraft research, production and testing.

2004, Zhao Rong, Zheng Guo, “Shaanxi”, in Y. M. Yeung, Shen Jianfa, editors, Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 366:

An official from Xian’s Yanliang district said on Sunday that 1,150 tonnes of vegetables have been delivered to about 115,600 households, adding to the 4,100 tonnes of vegetables being delivered to nearly 250,000 families in the urban Xincheng district.

2022 January 2, Jack Lau, “Covid-19 in China: Xian cases edge down on New Year’s Day after worst week of 2021”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-13, Politics:

The Yueyang City site is located in the Yanliang district of Xi’an City, the capital of Shaanxi province. The district is about 840 miles northwest of Shanghai.

2023 February 16, Aspen Pflughoeft, “2,200-year-old flush toilet — oldest ever found — unearthed at palace ruins in China”, in Miami Herald, archived from the original on 2023-02-19, World:


Lintong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼.

On the morning of June 24, we drove east to Huaching Pool, which is outside the city of Sian. This time my tourist guide was a young lady. Huaching Pool is situated near the north side of Lishan Hill in Lintung County, twenty-five kilometers east of Sian.

[1980, T. Y. Wong, “Sian—the Old Capital”, in My Y-Shaped Travels in China, 1st edition, Smithtown, New York: Exposition Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

Vegetable farmers in the Lintong district of Xian, in Shaanxi province, were forced to plough over more than 10 hectares of celery growing in their fields last week after failing to find buyers, the Huashang Daily reported.

2016 June 13, Stephen Chen, “‘Tearful’ Chinese farmers lose tens of thousands of yuan as hot weather causes early celery harvest”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-16, China:

The Xian housing bureau also expanded existing curbs to include one more district, Lintong. It said the new purchase rules take effect immediately.

2019 June 20, Yawen Chen, Ryan Woo, “China's top performing property market in May tightens purchase rules”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-06-21, Asia:


Zhen'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 振安.

Last August, the United Front Work Department in the Zhen’an district of Dandong, a prefecture-level city in the northeastern province of Liaoning, issued a document requiring the five officially-sanctioned religious organizations to launch a charity donation campaign.

2020 March 12, Jiang Tao, “Believers Forced to Prove Loyalty to the State with Money”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 2020-03-13:


Zhen'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮安 /镇安 (Zhèn'ān).

Chenan County is one of Shensi's progressive counties in learning from Tachai. Leaders of the county CCP Committee have provided good examples in fighting in unity.

[1978 February 21 [1978 February 18], “County in Shensi Carries out Rectification”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 35, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 5:

[SHENSI DAILY 18 February untitled editor's note to a frontpage report by the joint investigation group of the Organization Department of the Shensi Provincial CCP Committee and the Shanglo Prefectural CCP Committee: "The Chenan County CCP Committee Has Taken Exposing and Criticizing the Gang of Four as the Key Link and, in Close Connection With Reality, Seriously Carried Out Rectification of the Party and the Style of Work"]

[1978 February 21 [1978 February 18], “Praised by Shensi Daily”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 35, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 6:

The Landsat photographs have also demonstrated clearly that the Longmen Mt. Deep Fracture extends towards the northeast after passing through the Hanzhong area, and then enters the Qinling Mts. to join with the Lintan-Shanyang Deep Fracture in the vicinity of Zhen’an County.

1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

The blast struck just before midnight on Tuesday outside an explosives warehouse, according to a statement from the Zhen’an county government in Shaanxi province posted on its official website.

2018 April 12, “Blast on truck carrying explosives in northern China kills 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-04-14:


Zhashui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柞水 (Zhàshuǐ).

Shanglo regional CCP committee recently held a symposium on the campaign to criticize revisionism and rectify the style of work in the rural areas, which studied the New Year editorial and summed up experiences in popularizing the experiences of the state-owned No 1 cotton mill.[…]
At one stage the idea that 'criticizing revisionism and rectifying the style of work is just a gust of wind' appeared among the leading members of the Chashui County CCP Committee.

[1973 January 15 [1973 January 13], “Shensi Region Holds Symposium on Criticizing Revisionism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 10, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Northwest Region, page H 2:

The book’s impressive statistics have a very human face, which I was able to see in 2007 on a visit to Zhashui County in Shaanxi Province with Lu Mai, the Secretary-General of the China Development Research Foundation, who plays a key role in organising the China Development Forum. Shaanxi is not a particularly poor province, but Zhashui County, located in the southern mountainous area, has an average annual per capita income of ¥1,300 ($188).

2014, Mark Moody-Stuart, Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics, Greenleaf Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 237:

Police in Zhashui County, Shaanxi province were notified of 16 cars being maliciously smashed on Hexi Road in late July.

2015 August 14, “Drunk Man Smashes 16 Cars After Scolding”, in Beijing Today, number 740, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

“A Date with China”, an international media tour with the theme of “On Road to Prosperity”, kicked off Monday morning in Zhashui county, Shangluo city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province.[…]
“Families and individuals in many poverty-stricken regions in China like Zhashui county have shed off poverty and led well-off lives. This transformation of their destinies is a miracle from China’s fight against poverty,” he added.

2021 April 23, “‘A Date with China’ media tour kicks off in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2023-04-14:


Shangnan

This action altered his behaviour for the time being, but in the evening he escaped again at the hsien-town of Shangnan.[...]At Shangnan the population was complaining of the same drought that had hindered us from getting a boat at Lungchüchai; and in the evening the villages formed a long procession firing crackers and beating gongs, in order to induce the rain-joss to send some water.

1923, Frits Holm, My Nestorian Adventure in China, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, →OL, pages 193–195:

Hu Xufeng, 36, a member of the People’s Congress of Shangnan county, Shaanxi province, claimed the unusually high level of compensation because his detention caused “destructive damage” to his business, he told news portal Thepaper.cn.

2016 August 11, Jun Mai, “Chinese lawmaker seeks 130m yuan compensation from police for ‘illegal’ detention”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2016-08-15, Policies & Politics:

A $43,000 system purchased by police in central China’s Shangnan county included a “foreign sensitive information” collection system that requested Uyghur and Tibetan staff translators, according to the contracts.

2021 December 31, Cate Cadell, “China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-31, National Security:


Shangzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 商州.

Because this story was brought to light by Gao Lujie and other physicians of international renown, the Chinese government could only temporarily treat Gao as a “target of internal control.” But AIDS had already spread beyond Henan Province, and journalists who reported on a serious outbreak in the Shangzhou district of Shaanxi Province were investigated and prosecuted.

2007, Qinglian He, “Media Control in China”, in Sharon Hom, Stacy Mosher, editors, Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change, The New Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:

The girl said she had been repeatedly humiliated by Wang since she started studying at Shangdan Gaoxin School in Shangluo city’s Shangzhou district at the start of the year.

2019 July 15, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese teacher banned from classroom after teenage girl records abusive rants”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-15, People & Culture:

Between January 3-6, Wang Minxia, the chairman and president of Shangzhou District CC&TSPM in Shangluo City, visited COVID-19 workers in the Chengguan Sub-district Office and Dongcheng Community, sending more than 5,000 yuan worth of supplies and equipment, such as electric heaters, water heaters, masks, disinfectants, and instant noodles.

2022 January 17, John Wong, “Churches in Shaanxi Support COVID-19 Prevention, Control”, in Abigail Wu, transl., China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2022-04-14:


Weinan

Shuang-wang is situated on the rich loess of the Wei River valley near the city of Weinan in Shensi Province.

1977, Andrew Watson, Living in China, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:

When he assumed his duties as imperial agent, one of those who came to pay him a courtesy visit was Chao Chun-jui, the Moslem merchant from Weinan County in Shensi who had bought a large part of the jade sold by Kao P’u’s predecessor, Ma Hsing-a.

1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:

Weinan, in the western province of Shaanxi, has found a new way to encourage local districts to improve their performance on a series of development-related goals such as infrastructure projects and tax collection.

2014 October 24, Austin Ramzy, “In One Chinese City, Underperformers Also Share the Limelight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-06, Sinosphere:

A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.

2021 January 27, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections”, in William Maclean, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-01-27, Healthcare & Pharma:

A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.


Tongguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潼關 /潼关 (Tóngguān).

In many localities it remained difficult to keep the ti-fang and pao-chia functionally apart. For instance, a ti-fang agent was instituted (1763) in each of the villages of T'ung-kuan Hsien (Shensi) to supervise the p'ai divisions and to assist the pao-chang in carrying out his police control duties.

[1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, “Police Control: The Pao-chia System”, in Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:

Travelling by day and resting by night, Kuo Tieh-shan came to the province of Shensi. Since Mr Yin was the magistrate of Tungkuan County, Kuo had to go out of his way to call on him.

[1973, Wu Ching-tzu, “Kuo Tieh-shan encounters tigers in the mountain. A monk from Sweet Dew Temple meets his foe”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., The Scholars, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 419:

With the transfer after 907 of the capital to the eastern plains. T'ung-kuan lost its major defensive role; it remained an important strategic place, however, and was the site of a guard (wei) under the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It became T'ung-kuan County under the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911).

[1986, “T'ung-kuan”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 12, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 40, column 1:

Tong Pass, the eastern gate of the land within the passes, was already established by the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, and its ruins now lie near Wucun Village in Tongguan County.

1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:

* Unit to acquire gold mine in Tongguan county of Shaanxi province for HK$406 million

2017 October 26, “BRIEF-China Mining Resources says unit to acquire gold mine for HK$406 mln”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-07-13, CONSUMER PRODUCTS & RETAIL NEWS:


Huayin

Mistress Yang was born in 718 in the little town of Huayin in the province of Shensi,² through which the modern Lunghai railway runs on its way from Ch'angan to the sea.

1956, Bernard Llewellyn, “The Queen of Concubines Yang Kuei-fei”, in China's Courts and Concubines, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 92:

I visited Hua Shan in the summer of 1935. It was an easy place to reach because the train to Sian stopped conveniently at a little place called Hua Yin, which means ‘under the shadow of Hua Shan’. The Hua Shan massif did indeed dominate Hua Yin.

1987, Hedda Morrison, Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933-1946, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52, 244:

HUAYIN IS THE TOWN at the base of the holy mountain of Huashan.

1988, Michael Buckley, Cycling to Xian and other excursions, Crazyhorse Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:

The place where Huashan’s Taoist caretaker gave Yao this advice is known as Huafeng. It’s about three kilometers east of the present county seat of Huayin. Unfortunately, the last artifacts of the former sacrificial center were destroyed in 1958 during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, and the site is now better known for the neolithic remains discovered there since then. Two other shrines have also disappeared. One built at the beginning of the Chou dynasty south of Huayin has become Huashan High School.

1993, Bill Porter, Road to Heaven, San Francisco: Mercury House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 61–62:

But, the 4 billion yuan project was a failure and instead intensified flooding in Huayin, a county-level city under Weinan, where the Wei River - a tributary of the Yellow River - flowed backwards because its river bed was raised by more than 5 metres. In the 1960s, the central government scaled back the project.

2006 October 2, “Mao's ill-conceived dam still a curse for villagers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-15, Latest:

Police in Huayin in the northwestern province of Shaanxi made the “criminal detentions” earlier this month, suspecting the three of “inciting to subvert state power”, Ruan Xiuqin, wife of Chen Sizhong, one of the farmers, told Reuters by telephone.

2007 December 24, Shipeng Guo, Benjamin Kang Lim, “China detains farmers urging land privatization”, in Lindsay Beck, Roger Crabb, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-11, World News:

A county-level city of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.


Huazhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 化州 (Huàzhōu).

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have shelved plans to build a public crematorium near Huazhou city after clashes between protesters and riot police firing tear gas and wielding batons.
Last week's clashes in Huazhou's Wenlou township, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Hong Kong, saw around 1,000 armed riot police take over the town after residents made barricades on the streets to block the passage of armored vehicles, local residents told RFA at the time.

2019 December 2, Gao Feng, “Riot Police Win Back Control of Protest Town in China's Guangdong”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2019-12-03, China:

A county-level city of Maoming, Guangdong, China.


Huazhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 華州 /华州 (Huàzhōu).

Guanzhong Basin is a crucial food production area in China. Located in the east of the Guanzhong Basin, Huazhou District is not only an agricultural area, but also contains some factories, contributing significantly to the urban agglomeration in Guanzhong. Due to the rapid industrialization and urbanization development, Huazhou District has experienced environmental problems and water crisis (Wu and Sun, 2016). For example, the water coming from the river channel of Jijiahe Reservoir is mainly industrial wastewater, and over the years, the reservoir has been seriously silted up and the ecology of watershed has deteriorated. Xue et al. (2016) have demonstrated that the nitrate concentration of the Wei River in Huazhou District is higher than in upstream river sections.

2024 December 15, Lingxi Li, Peiyue Li, Yan Tian, Xiaomei Kou, Song He, “Nitrate sources and transformation in surface water and groundwater in Huazhou District, Shaanxi, China: Integrated research using hydrochemistry, isotopes and MixSIAR model”, in Environmental Research, volume 263, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-04-22:

A subdistrict of Huazhou district, Weinan, Shaanxi, China, formerly a town.


Linwei

Former reporter Xie Zhaoping , 55, has been detained at the Linwei district police station in Weinan , Shaanxi , for 'illegal business' after publishing Large Migration, a 100,000-word book, in May.

2010 September 2, Priscilla Jiao, “Book on dam's relocated victims lands author in jail”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-16:

In one case reported on December 1, 1997, Judge Zhao Huanchi of Minsheng Road Court in the Linwei district, Shanxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]), issued a subpoena on November 4 to the manager of Weinan Food Service Company, requesting that the manager come to the court. On the next day, however, the company sent a letter to Zhao arguing that, according to a recent document of the Linwei district government, any court’s subpoena first had to have permission from the district leaders.

2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:

In 2005 the Bureau of Culture of Linwei District of the City of Weinan, sensing the importance attached by the central government to ICH, submitted an application package and succeeded in listing Huaxian shadow puppetry as a national ICH project in 2006.

2022, Sha Yao, translated by Li Guicang, Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=DfQxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT126:

The earliest known species of Tscherskia (T. sp.) was found in the Late Pliocene (2.58-3.60 Ma) from the Youhe Formation (ca. 3.40— 2.59 Ma) (Yue and Xue 1996; Xie et al. 2021) in Linwei District, Weinan, Shaanxi Province, China.

2024 May 29, Haijun Jiang, Xuming Wang, Yaohua Yang, Xuan Pan, Shaoying Liu, Jiqi Lu, “Tscherskia ningshaanensis: A neglected species based on phylogenetic and taxonomic analysis of Tscherskia and Cansumys (Cricetidae, Rodentia)”, in Melissa TR Hawkins, editor, Zoosystematics and Evolution, published 2024, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1237, column 1:


Heyang

The most direct road from Hanch'eng to Hsian lies through the cities of T'ungchou Fu and Weinan Hsien across the plains along the Yellow River, but we followed a slightly longer route further north across the loess uplands via Hoyang, Ch'engch'eng, P'uch'eng, Fup'ing, and Sanyuan, a week's journey by a good and mostly level trail.[…]
Hoyang is a fairly large city, the centre of a first class district; but it is a poor-looking place inside, like most of these purely agricultural prairie towns, and is not to be compared with Hanch'eng, which probably does a good deal of trade with prosperous Shansi.

[1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, pages 79–80:

As a result, some 1,000 activists in reading Chairman Mao's works have emerged in Hoyang County, Shensi Province.

[1966 January 26 [1966 January 19], “Local Areas Improve War Veterans' Treatment”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 18, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page CCC 4:

Heyang county was selected as the project site because of its representative qualities.[...]Weinan 渭南 municipality, in which Heyang county is situated, is the most densely populated of the province's lower-level and mainly agricultural municipalities.

2011, Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59:

Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network :
* Says it signs strategic cooperation agreement with Heyang County govt

2016 May 17 [2016 May 18], “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network signs strategic cooperation agreement with Heyang govt”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:


Hancheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邗城 (Hánchéng), from 邗溝 /邗沟 (Hángōu, “Han Canal”) + 城 (chéng, “wall, walled city”), from its placement to guard the southern end of the canal beside the Yangtze.

(historical) A former town in China, located within modern Yangzhou.


Hancheng

From the Mandarin 韓城 /韩城 (Hánchéng), from the earlier march of 韓國 /韩国 (Hánguó) in the area, from 韓 /韩 (hán, “puteal”).

To hasten the conclusion of the Communist-suppression campaign by checking the retreat of the Red remnants from Shansi back to Shensi, General Yang Hu-cheng, Pacification Commissioner for Shensi, has established a provisional headquarters at Hancheng on the Shensi-Shansi border about 70 kilometers south of Yichuen[.]

1936 May 2, “Two Shansi Cities are Cleared of Reds”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 76, number 9, →OCLC, page 298, column 1:

The "Red Flag" commune in Hancheng County set up a correspondence and newspaper-reading network in the brigades. Every correspondence group at all levels is under the charge of a responsible person of the revolutionary committee.

1969 November 25 [1969 November 19], “Writers From Lower Levels Trained in Shensi”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 228, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 3:

All the miners in the shaft died when an underground cable caught fire on Saturday night at the Xiaonangou coal mine in Hancheng City, the report said, citing the general office of the Shaanxi provincial government.

2010 July 18, Ken Wills, “China coal mine accident kills 28”, in Jonathan Thatcher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-27, World News:

The ministry also criticised Hancheng, in northern Shaanxi province, after 190 million yuan was spent on building hills and waterfalls.

2019 January 23, Alice Yan, “Act of folly: One of China’s poorest counties under fire after spending US$9 million on dynastic-style city gates”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-01-23, People & Culture:


Chengcheng

/t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

Ch’eng was located south of the modern capital of Ch’eng-ch’eng County, eastern Shensi.

[1980, Cho-yun Hsu, “Farming Resources”, in Jack L. Dull, editor, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 260:

Zhaojiahe is a single-surname village, which is not unusual in this area.⁸ It is under the administration of Leijiawa township, Chengcheng county, the Weinan district of Shaanxi province (see map 5).

2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has trapped at least 29 people, state media said on Thursday, the latest in a series of colliery accidents across the country.
The blast occurred late on Wednesday in Chengcheng county, Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief report.

2008 October 29, Beijing newsroom, “China mine gas blast traps 29”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-02, Asia Crisis:


Baishui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白水 (Báishuǐ).

Mourners fell ill Sunday in Baishui, a rural county northwest of the provincial capital, Xi’an. Four remained in serious condition, the report said.

1998 November 6, “China Food Poisoning Strikes 260”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-04-07:

It was my good fortune around this time also to be selected as vice-governor for a year in Baishui county, recognized as a Chinese National Poverty County, located in Shaanxi province of China.

2015, Tang Lu, “Experience: Understanding and Reporting India”, in Robin Jeffrey, Ronojoy Sen, editors, Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:


Pucheng

Little is known about Yang Hu-ch’eng’s family background or early life except that he was born in Pucheng, Shensi, and that he became a bandit.

1971, “Yang Hu-ch'eng”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

A woman was jailed for 15 years in Weinan for helping her father blow up a bus in Pucheng county in January in a failed attempt to kill his wife,[…]reports.

2014 November 8, Huifeng He, “Mystery of boy tied to lamp post; Daughter helped dad in bid to kill mum with bomb”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-11-23, China Insider:

A resident in Pucheng, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, complained on the local government’s online messaging board in February that there was no bus service between downtown and the railway station.

2023 March 28, Li Yuan, “China’s Cities Are Buried in Debt, but They Keep Shoveling It On”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28, Business:


Fuping

Indeed, given China’s rampant corruption, another big question surrounding the antipoverty campaign, announced a few days after Mr. Xi’s visit, is how much of the additional $40 million that provincial authorities will funnel to Luotuowan and other villages in the surrounding county of Fuping next year will actually reach those in need.

2013 January 26, Andrew Jacobs, “Leader’s Visit Lifts a Village, Yet Lays Bare China’s Woes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-01-28, Asia Pacific, page 1:


Fuping

Under an invitation from Kuan and Second Front Army Commander Ho Lung, the two young men visited troops at Chuangli, Fuping, on their way home.

1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:

Zhang Shuxia, 55, an obstetrician in north-western Shaanxi province's Fuping county, was found guilty of selling the babies for as much as 21,600 yuan $3,600 (2,195 pounds) each between 2011 and 2013, the court in Weinan city said.

2014 January 14, Michael Martina, “China doctor gets suspended death sentence for trafficking newborn babies”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-05-31, World:


Xianyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸陽 (Xiányáng).

The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies'. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.

[1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti — The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:

Far less known, but almost as impressive, was Meng T’ien’s construction of a superhighway connecting the Chinese capital of Hsienyang (just across the Wei River from Ch’ang-an) with the newer sections of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia.

[2016, Bill Porter, “Onward [往前]”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan.

2023 August 29, Li Yuan, “She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-29, China's Economy:


Yangling

This year the Yangling district, designated by the provincial government as a base for harvesting improved seed varieties, not only planted the Xiaoyan numbers 6, 107, and 168 and the Shaanxi number 213 seed varieties which are so well-liked by the people, but it also planted such new and improved seed varieties as the superior new composite Xinong number 85 and the Shaanxi 229, 897, and 84G6 varieties, among others.

1993 August 10 [1993 June 6], “Everyone Contributes To Ensure Abundant Results From the Summer Harvest”, in JPRS Report China, number 93-058, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xian SHAANXI RIBAO p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:

In Yangling, a district of 155,000 people that has been a center for agricultural sciences since the 1930s, several problems with the government’s attempt to sidestep privatization are apparent.

2014 October 12, Ian Johnson, “Once a Symbol of Power, Farming Now an Economic Drag in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-13, Asia Pacific:

After completing my Chinese language training, I was sent at the age of 20 to the Northwest A&F University in the Yangling District of Xiangyang^([sic – meaning Xianyang]), a city of some seven million people in Shaanxi province.

2022, Nury Turkel, chapter 1, in No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/No_Escape/gJA9EAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT35:


Wugong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).

The heart of the centre is in Yangling town in Wukung County, 80 kilometres from Sian, the provincial capital.

[1978 August 2 [1978 August 1], “Shensi Selected as Site for Agricultural Research Center”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 149, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:

According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign.
A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said.

2017 December 4, “Natural gas crunch in northern China leaves hospitals, schools out in the cold”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-04, Policies & Politics:


Xingping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興平 /兴平 (Xīngpíng).

Very little is known about Ma Chun's early life. He was born in a poor family in what is today Hsingping county in Shansi^([sic – meaning Shensi]) province.

[1973, John Gittings, “How the Dragon's Backbone was Invented”, in A Chinese View of China, 1st American edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

A recent discovery is a bronze vessel with an inlaid gold ornament, excavated at Tou-ma-ts’un, Hsing-p’ing County, Shensi Province. It dates from the Late Eastern Chou period.

[1973, Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, “Chou Bronzes”, in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54, column 3:

On Saturday, rain and hail struck the Shaanxi counties of Suide and Xingping, killing two people and damaging about 7,000 hectares of farmland. Economic losses were calculated at more than 16.5 million yuan.

2004 July 18, “Flooding swamps many provinces, and more to come”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-14:

Maoling is located in Xingping City, Shaanxi Province, and is the tomb of the Han Emperor Wudi (also known as Liu Che).

2011, Li Xianyao, Luo Zhewen, China's Museums, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:

A county-level city of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.


Qindu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦都.

1990 October 23, Lena H. Sun, “CHINA SEEKS WAYS TO PROTECT ELDERLY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20:

To help protect the rights of the elderly, particularly in rural areas, some localities have begun requiring contracts of support between elderly parents and their children. A case in point is the village of Tiezu, or Iron Mouth in English, located in Qindu county on the outskirts of Xianyang, a former ancient capital of China in central Shaanxi province.
Starting this year, newlyweds in Qindu district have been required to sign contracts pledging to support their parents after age 60.

1996, Lena H. Sun, “China Seeks Ways to Protect Elderly; Support Agreements Replacing Traditional Respect for the Aged”, in Ourselves and Others: The Washington Post Sociology Companion, 2nd edition, Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:

Before being appointed Shangzhou party chief in 2000, Zhang served as the city's mayor between 1999 and 2000, and Qindu district party head between 1997 and 1999.

2006 July 23, “Shaanxi official's corruption case is the tip of iceberg”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-08:

Rongan Property Co Ltd
* Says co’s wholly owned management consulting unit and a Shaanxi-based real estate development firm will jointly develop land in Qindu District, Xianyang City

2017 October 16, “BRIEF-Rongan Property unit and real estate development firm to jointly develop land in Xianyang”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-09-04, Financials:

The study area of this paper covers the main urban area of Xi’an, which is mainly the area within the Xi’an Ring Expressway, including seven districts within Xi’an (Xincheng District, Beilin District, Lianhu District, Weiyang District, Yanta District, Baqiao District and Chang’an District) as well as a small part of Qindu District in Xianyang City, with a total area of about 457km².

2023 August 24, Jiang Wu, Shenshan Han, Leijie Shi, Qun Hui, “Study on the spatial variability of thermal landscape in Xi’an based on OSM road network and POI data”, in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, volume 11, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:


Weicheng

The museum is located on the eastern bank of the Bailang River in the Weicheng District of Weifang City and can be reached from Zibo, Qingdao or Yantai.

1991 March, “Newly Opened Places of Interest in Shandong Province”, in Chapman Lee, transl., China Tourism, number 129, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88, column 2:

I am 22 years of age. I live in Weicheng District of Weifang City.

2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 216:

Sentences ranging from suspended prison terms to jail terms of up to six years were handed down by courts in Jiangsu's Xuzhou city and Shandong's Weifang city on Friday.
The sentences were handed down by the Weicheng District People's Court in Weifang and the Tongshan District People's Court in Xuzhou, for public order offenses including "disrupting public order," "obstructing officials in the course of their duty," and "gathering a crowd to disturb public order," state news agency Xinhua reported.

2019 April 19, Siu-san Wong, Lee Wang-yam, Shi Shan, “Chinese Courts Hand Down Jail Terms to PLA Veterans After Protests”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2019-04-19:


Jingyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇陽 /泾阳 (Jīngyáng).

Ching-yang (alternative)
Kingyang (alternative)

Too busy to concern themselves with war propagandists’ nightmares,. but resolved to defend their newly-won right to the pursuit of happiness, these women of a mutual-aid team in Chingyang County, Shensi Province, chat about what they plan te do with their good cotton harvest this year.

[1951 November 21, “Atrocity report backfires, leaves U.S. allies jittery”, in National Guardian, volume 4, number 5, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

Located in Jinghe New City, Jingyang County, Xianyang, Shaanxi, the church has a sanctuary with a seating capacity of over 1,000 and the space between the sanctuary and the offices can accommodate an additional 300.

2018 January 24, Xianyang CCC&TSPM of Shaanxi, “New Ark-shaped Church Completed in Shaanxi”, in Karen Luo, transl., China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2018-02-15:


Sanyuan

Three men prominent in these groups were arrested, including Sian NLVC leader Yü Chih-yuan. In addition, a warrant was circulated for Li Lien-pi, director of the NLVC Northwest Bureau, who happened to be out of town; he was picked up in Sanyuan County in July. With the apprehension of still another young man, the incarcerated leaders became known as the “Five Youths of Sian,” and a movement was undertaken to secure their release.

1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, “The War They Wanted”, in Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:

This Ming dynasty temple in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi, was constructed in 1375 and is now one of the country’s best- preserved examples of Ming architecture— it has kept its original design ever since it was first built.

2004, “The Central Region (North)”, in Treasures of China, Reader's Digest, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:

A man walks through the dried-up bed of a reservoir in Sanyuan county, Shaanxi province July 30, 2014.

2015 January 22, Alister Doyle, Valerie Volcovici, “U.N. asks countries for climate plans after record warm 2014”, in Janet Lawrence, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-13, World News:

Han Yingjin, bishop of Sanyuan in the northern province of Shaanxi, said the deal could improve morale among Chinese Catholics, and is "of great significance."

2018 September 24, Lau Siu-fung, Gao Feng, “China's Christians Have 'Mixed Feelings' About Vatican Agreement on Bishops”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2018-09-24:


Chunhua

THE road in Chunhua county, Shensi province was lined with poplar trees. Waiting at a bus stop beneath one of them was a woman commune member with a child of four or five. The child kept running among the young trees, occasionally shaking them. "Don't do that," the mother scolded. "Everybody takes care of the trees and you should too."
In fact, most of the roads in Chunhua county are now lined with trees and most of the people do feel about them like this farm mother.

1978 June, Staff Reporter, “Turning the Yellow Hills Green”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 6, Peking, →OCLC, page 30:

The Kan-ch’üan (Sweet Spring) Palace was built on Kan-ch’üan Mountain, about fifteen miles northwest of modern Ch’un-hua 淳化 County in Shensi (T’an Ch’i-hsiang, 2:15).

[1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, “The Filial and Cultured [Emperor], Basic Annals 10”, in Cao Weiguo, transl., edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume II, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:

Moreover, as a means of communication [he built] the Direct Road, from Chiu-yüan⁴¹ to Yün-yang.⁴²

[2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, “Those Who Draw the Bow: The Rise of the Hsiung-nu Nomadic Empire and the Political Unification of the Nomads”, in Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Cambridge University Press, sourced from Shih chi 110, 2886, translation of original in Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:

A tour bus traveling through countryside in northwest China toppled off a steep hillside in Shaanxi Province on Friday, killing at least 35 people, according to state-run news media. It appeared to be the deadliest traffic accident in nine months in China, where the government has struggled to curtail the danger on roads and highways.
The bus, traveling through Chunhua County, had about 46 people on board when it went off the side of the road, according to news reports citing county officials.

2015 May 15, Chris Buckley, “Bus Goes Over Hillside in China, Killing at Least 35”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-16, Asia Pacific:


Liquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禮泉 /礼泉.

In the first half of this year Lichuan County built five small factories, including a cement works.

[1970 July 23 [1970 July 10], “Shensi Coal Output”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 142, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

The account centers around Wang Pao-ching, a technical activist in Lichuan county, Shensi province. As early as 1952, Wang proposed that greatly increased maize yields could be realized with the introduction of scientific farming.

[1974, Richard P. Suttmeier, “Technological Mobilization: Science, Technology, and the Chinese Masses”, in Research and Revolution: Science Policy and Societal Change in China, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:

Interested parties can also go to the Fenghuo People's Commune of Liquan County although it is over 40 miles (60 km) from Xi'an in the direction of the Qian Ling.

1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 87:

Li Man paints in her shop in Yuanjiacun Village of Liquan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 30, 2017.

2017 May 1, “Tourists visit Yuanjiacun Village of Liquan County in NW China's Shaanxi”, in An, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2021-05-24:


Yongshou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永壽 /永寿 (Yǒngshòu).

There was little poppy cultivation to note during the day : when nearing the uplands after leaving Pin Chou I saw a man carrying a bundle of poppy-stalks, with capsules, down hill and near the village of Ti-yao-kou, ten miles from Yung-shou Hsien, but still within the department of Pin Chou, I observed one field of poppy-stems with capsules from which the opium had been collected.
Between Pin Chou and Yung-shou Hsien the cart traffic was the heaviest I had seen since leaving Lan-chou.

[1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 165:

Yongshou County to the north-west of Xi’an has also seen growth: from 1,200 Christians in just one church in 1992 to over 4,000 baptised believers in thirteen churches in 1996.

1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions, Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265:

Plan’s small-sum loan project has been implemented in Yongshou County, Shaanxi Province. (Now Plan has been trying out the project in 14 selected places in Hebei, Gansu, Guizhou and Shaanxi provinces as well as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.)

2007, Shen Honglei [申宏磊], Lei Xiangqing [雷向晴], “International NGO Participation in China's Poverty Reduction Efforts”, in Zhou Xiaogang [周晓刚], transl., International Aid Projects for Poverty Alleviation in China [国际扶贫援助项目在中国] (China in Peaceful Development [中国的和平发展系列]), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

Yongshou County is located in the central part of the north of Weibei region in Shaanxi[…]Dengjiapo Village is located 45 km northwest of Yongshou County.

2019, Tian Yonggang et al., “Organic Renewal of Sunken Yaodongs in Guanzhong: A Case study of Dengjiapo village in Yongshou County, Xianyang, Shaanxi”, in Journal of Landscape Research, volume 11, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-21, page 110, column 1:


Binzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彬州.


Binzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濱州 /滨州 (Bīnzhōu).

Li Jundang, manager of Shandong Binzhou Tianjian Biotechnology, a wheat gluten producer in the city of Binzhou, about 200 miles north of here, said, “We never heard the news of tainted pet food.”

2007 April 12, David Barboza, “Some Suspect Chemical Mix in Pet Food”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-05, World Business:

The city of Binzhou in eastern China's Shandong province, home to top aluminum producer China Hongqiao Group, is planning five new projects to support development of a high-end aluminum industry, according to a local government document.

2018 September 4, Tom Daly, “China's aluminum capital Binzhou plans new 'high-end' projects”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-22, Currencies:

A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.


Changwu

/(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈu/

In the city of Changwu on the Shensi-Kansu border he executed three commanders from the Third Nationalist Army whose brutality had provoked the Red Spear uprising.

1971, Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova, translated by Steven I. Levine, Two Years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:

The threat of a war—it was feared a nuclear war—between Russia and China was brewing in the later months of 1968. (Actual hostilities broke out in 1969 and the whole school was evacuated.) Because of the general threat of possible nuclear attack, those of us who were left at the school were sent to Changwu County (a six-hour drive) to help dig fallout shelters.

1997, Melvyn Goldstein, The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:

Recent excavations in Dingjia village, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, uncovered a cache of twenty-four small sandstone Buddhist steles in a variety of shapes and sizes.

2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Catalogue”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:


Xunyi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旬邑.

At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.

[1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:

Then in August 1978, the People’s Daily reported a directive transmitted by Hua Kuo-feng, then chairman of CPC, concerning the despotic practices of the cadres in Hsunyi county of Shensi province.

[1987, Alan P. L. Liu, “Popular Politicians and Totalitarian Cadres”, in Phoenix and the Lame Lion: Modernization in Taiwan and Mainland China, 1950-1980, number 358, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:

Xia Zhanyi, Communist Party chief of Xunyi county - where the factory is located, called on all citizens to support the project and help it reach the sales goal, more than 10 times the planned 45,000 target for this year, the Beijing Daily said.

2003 February 5, Mark O'Neill, “Beijing urges public support for car project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04:

Nowadays, there are still some people surnamed Diwu in China, and most of them lived in a village in Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province.

2010, Bi Yanli [毕艳莉], translated by Qin Dan [秦丹], Tales from the Hundreds Surnames (Tales from China's Classic Essential Readings), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:


Tongchuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅川 /铜川 (Tóngchuān).

Shensi has abundant coal deposits distributed throughout the province, one of the largest being at T’ung-ch’uan.

[1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “North China”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125, column 2:

The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.

2006 October 29, “Briefly: 2 managers are jailed in blast that killed 166 - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29, Asia Pacific:

Tongchuan, a city of 700,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, called on Wednesday for all medical workers who retired in the past five years to join the battle against COVID.

2022 December 22, Zoey Zhang, Bernard Orr, Martin Pollard, Ella Cao, Casey Hall, Marius Zaharia, Ben Blanchard, “Shanghai hospital warns of 'tragic battle' as COVID spreads”, in Lincoln Feast, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-12-23, China:


Yaozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 耀州.

The three species of Tasmanognathus (T. borealis, T. gracilis and T. shichuanheensis) erected by An in An et al. (1985) from the Yaoxian Formation (DarriwilianSandbian) of Yaozhou District (formerly Yaoxian) of Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province in North China exhibit similar species apparatus and closely related morphological variations of constituent elements.

2010 July, Zhen Y.Y. et al., “A Late Ordovician Conodont Fauna from the Lower Limestone Member of the Benjamin Limestone in Central Tasmania, and Revision of Tasmanognathus careyi Burrett, 1979”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 131, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:

Mt. Yaowang, is situated in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of Xi’an. To get there travelers can take a coach from Xi’an North Long-distance Bus Station to Yaozhou District in Tongchuan City.

2017 December 29, “A Two-day Tour to Appreciate Yaozhou Kiln”, in Government Website of Shaanxi Province, archived from the original on 2021-02-24:

A district of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.


Yintai

The old city of Tongchuan are Wangyi district and Yintai District.[…]
In September 29, 1984, a slope over 65,000 m3 collapsed in Yintai District, destroyed 23 houses and 50 people died.

2018 August, Aning Zhao, Jianhui Wang, Huaqing Chen, Jianghua Zhang, “Environmental Problems and Countermeasures for Sustainable Development in a Declining Mining City Tongchuan”, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Management Society (EMIM 2018), →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 306:

Figure 5 e shows the salt weathering of a natural slope in Yintai District, Tongchuan City, where can be classified as valleys and ridges considering its topographic feature.

2019, Jian Xu et al., “Shear strength and mesoscopic character of undisturbed loess with sodium sulfate after dry-wet cycling”, in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 79, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1528:

Forty-two miners were working underground when the accident occurred around 1 p.m. in Yintai District of Tongchuan City, according to the emergency rescue team on the site. Of the miners, 34 were lifted out of the mine safely.

2020 November 4, “8 missing in NW China mine accident”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2020-11-05:


Yijun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜君 (Yíjūn).

[…]agricultural Cooperative in Yichun County, Shensi, and this is a mountainous region, the yield per mou is 1,654 catties; at the Ningpo Agricultural Cooperative in Yuse County, Kwangsi, the average yield per mou is 1,600 catties.

[1969, What's Happening on the Chinese Mainland: (1969-1970), volumes 1-2, Chung Hwa Information Service, →OCLC, page 15, column 1:

Two small coal pits and an open-cut coal mine were opened in Yichun County this year.

[1970 October 14 [1970 October 13], “Yenan People Carry Forward Revolutionary Tradition”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, Sian, →OCLC, page H 9:

Three early Republican incidents, all originating in Shaanxi province, exemplify much more aggressive moves. In the course of the first one (1913),[...]Sixteen months later in Yijun county, opium commissar Wang Jiechen and more than ten policemen escorting him were killed by one hundred bandits, who had been commissioned by local opium-growers to protect forbidden poppy plants in exchange for a share in the profits from opium sales. The bandits went on to occupy the county capital.

2001, Lucien Bianco, “The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:

In Yijun County in Shaanxi Province, the police said they had collected more than 11,700 samples, or one quarter.

2020 June 17, Sui-Lee Wee, Amber Wang, Liu Yi, “China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Gear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-17:


Huangling

HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his.

1979 August, Lan Cao, “Tomb of the Yellow Emperor”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 1:

On April 4, 1938, Chang Kuo-tao, another leader of the Chinese Communists, went from Yenan, Shensi, to Chungpu (renamed Huangling, 1944) in his capacity of acting chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Government to attend the sacrificial services to the tomb of the Yellow Emperor.

1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 72:

The Cave Temple of a Thousand Buddhas (Tang) is halfway up Ziwu Hill in the western part of Huangling county.

1982, Ruth Lor Malloy, The Morrow Travel Guide to the People's Republic of China, 2nd Revised edition, Quill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 243:

In nine school children (6—10 years) from Huang-Ling county, a selenium-deficient area 200 km north of Xi’an, 5 ml of EDTA blood were taken in the fasting state.

[1987, M.D. Laryea, Y.F. Jiang, G.L. Xu, D. Frosch, I. Lombeck, “Low Selenium State and Increased Erucic Acid in Children from Keshan Endemic Areas – A Pilot Study”, in Albrecht Wendel, editor, Selenium in Biology and Medicine: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine, held July 18-21, 1988, Tübingen, FRG, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 277:

The mausoleum, located in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, is the location of the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the common ancestor of the Chinese nation.

2022 April 6, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government, “Renyin (2022) Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2023-03-11:


Luochuan

On the basis of the loess section in Luochuan, Shaanxi Province, thirteen climatic cycles (L1-L13) and twenty-one subcycles can be distinguished, and the climatic variations indicated agree to the fact that the oscillation magnitude after the Brunhes/the Matuyama 700,000 yrs ago in the Early Pleistocene, was the greatest.

1985, Ze-chun Liu, “Climatostratigraphy of the Sediments in the Peking Man's Cave”, in Quaternary Geology and Environment of China, China Ocean Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:

Local police in Luochuan County in Shaanxi, central China told NBC News on Thursday they were investigating the incident, which took place on Monday.

2015 May 7, Cassandra Vinograd, Marc Smith, Rebekah Smyth, Robert Windrem, “Video of Brutal Attack on Toddler in China Sparks Outrage”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2015-05-09:


Huanglong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黃龍／黄龙 (Huánglóng).

The members of the medical team in the Shancha people's commune of Huanglung County try Chinese medicinal herbs and acupuncture to treat Kaschin-Beck disease and Keshan disease.

[1971 June 3 [1971 June 2], “Medical Team from Peking Hospitals Serves Yenan People”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, number 71-107, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 4:

However, there were quite a large number of villages, especially in poor areas, where eight or nine peasants had to support one local-level cadre. This was true in impoverished Huanglong County in Shaanxi. While Huanglong is a small county with only 40,000-odd people, it has more than 4,400 cadres and civil servants working in 308 departments. In the early years after "liberation" in 1949, however, the comparative ratio was only twenty-eight farmers to one official.

2006, Willy Wo-Lap (林和立) Lam, Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GXeTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT103:


Yichuan

Hukou Waterfalls is the second largest waterfall in China, behind Huangguoshu in Guizhou Province. It lies in Hukou Township, Yichuan County, Shaanxi Province, with Jixian County in Shanxi Province on the opposite bank.

2000 March, Zhou Ping, “Blue Skies and Yellow Loess — Spring Festival in Northern Shaanxi”, in China Tourism, number 236, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:

Military expenses were frequently at the root of such deficits. One early investigation of arrears in Shaanxi’s Yichuan county is typical. An audit of the Yichuan granary revealed a shortage of nearly 3,000 piculs (dan) of grain.

2007, Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:

The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi.

2021 July 5, Muyu Xu, Shivani Singh, “China approves a $55 mln gas pipeline in northern China”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-05, Energy:


Yichuan

A rural lender based in China’s central Henan province sought to assure depositors of its financial health after a high volume of over-the-counter requests at some of its branches on Tuesday, amid concerns of liquidity issues at smaller Chinese lenders.
As a result, operation at those branches was slower than usual, Yichuan Rural Commercial Bank, which has 33 branches operating only in Henan’s Yichuan county, said in a notice posted on its official WeChat account.

2019 October 29, Cheng Leng, Ryan Woo, “Rural Chinese bank seeks to assure depositors”, in Ed Osmond, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-21, Banking and Financial News:


Yanchang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延長 /延长 (Yáncháng).

Subsequently our army completed the Long March from south Shensi to north Shensi and reached Yungping in Yenchang County on 18 September 1935 to join forces with the 26th and 27th Red armies.

[1978 September 29 [1978 August 1], Cheng Tzu-hua [4453 1311 5478] [程子華], “Take Up Arms in a Struggle for the Party”, in Translations from Red Flag, number 8, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking Red Flag pp 51-60, translation of original in Chinese, page 88:

A natural gas well operated by Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group has been burning for nearly a week since drilling in the well caused gas to leak out and explode,[…]
The accident took place late in the night on July 23 as workers drilled a gas well 2,750 meters under the ground in Yanchang County, said the official.

2010 July 29, Chen Aizhu, “North China gas well fire burning for nearly week: Xinhua”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-15, World News:

We selected Yanchang County as an example to track land use changes and their effects on the livelihood of the local population following the implementation of a new land use policy known as the Grain for Green Project (GGP). The data were collected from statistical yearbooks, questionnaire surveys, and satellite imagery from 1990, 2000, and 2008. We found that dramatic land use changes have occurred in Yanchang County.

2014 September, Nahui Zhen, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Zhenmin Zheng, “Changes of livelihood due to land use shifts: A case study of Yanchang County in the Loess Plateau of China”, in Land Use Policy, volume 40, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:


Baota

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶塔 /宝塔 (Bǎotǎ).

The police have reported this case to Yan’an Baota District Procuratorate which will decide whether or not to issue an arrest order for Zhang within seven days.

2002 November 1, Sanmeng Wu, Ivy Zheng, “Is Pornography Legal?”, in Beijing Today, number 77, →OCLC, page 8, column 5:

In a humiliating reversal for local police, Baota District People’s Procuratorate in Yan’an city, Shaanxi has thrown out their case against a local man accused of watching pornographic VCDs and obstructing justice.

2002 November 8, Ivy Zheng, “Is Pornography Legal?”, in Beijing Today, number 78, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:

From January 1, 1997, Yan’an Prefecture officially became the prefecture-equivalent Yan’an Municipality (Yan’anshi), whose jurisdiction includes all the original counties under the prefecture. At the same time the urban area of Yan’an City was renamed Baota District. I will use Yan’an Prefecture, Yan’an County, and Yan’an City (or simply Yan’an) respectively to refer to the three different administrative levels.

2006, Adam Yuet Chau, “Notes”, in Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:

Hou Xiuzhen, an elderly woman, lives in Nanniwan, a village in the town of Nanniwan, in Baota District of Yan'an, in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

2021 May 31, Yao Yao, “Family Promotes Spirit of Great Production Campaign in Nanniwan”, in All-China Women's Federation, archived from the original on 2022-06-24:


Ganquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘泉 (Gānquán).

In the Kanchuan-Laoshan campaign, this army group wiped out most of the enemy 110th Division, killed its divisional commander and in a subsequent action destroyed four battalions of the enemy’s 107th Division at Yulinchiao, Kanchuan County.

[1965 [1935 December 27], “On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism”, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 176:

The Twenty-sixth Army now freed Yenchang, Anting, Chinchien, and thus a large area round Yenan was liberated. The people were in control in Kanchuan and Fuhsian, and then in August of that year, the North-eastern Army arrived under Chang Hsueh-hang, the Young Marshal, and their slogan was 'Root out the communist bands in a month'.

[1965 [1963], Jan Myrdal, quoting Pai Yu-teh, translated by Maurice Michael, Rapport från kinesisk [Report from a Chinese Village], New York: Vintage Books, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 52:

In this subspecies, the petals are usually white with a large, dark purple blotch at the base, but in the Longbagou Mountain, Xiashiwan^([sic – meaning Xiasiwan]) Township (Ganquan County, Shaanxi Province), we found a population (D. Y. Hong, K. Y. Pan & Y. Ren H06003) in which white-flowered and red- flowered individuals coexisted.

2010, De-Yuan Hong, Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83:

According to the 2000 Census for Shaanxi province, Hu county near the provincial capital of Xian municipality has over 250,000 residents, while the geographically larger, but more remote Ganquan county has only 30,000.

2010, John James Kennedy, “Rural China: Reform and Resistance”, in William A. Joseph, editor, Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227:

The landslide crushed eight temporary dormitory rooms in Ganquan county, which is part of the city of Yan’an in Shaanxi province, according to the local government.

2014 October 10, “Landslide in northwest China kills 19 road workers”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-01:


Zichang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子長 /子长 (Zǐcháng, literally “Zichang, name of 謝子長 (Xie Zichang)”).

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By 1940 Hsu was identified as a deputy director of the Party Central Committee's Propaganda Department, a post he was to hold for about two decades. From late in the next year until 1946, he also served as a representative from An-ting (now Tzu-ch’ang) hsien, located north of Yenan, in the Second Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government.

[1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Hsu T’e-li”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series), volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 364, column 2:

'Continuing our tour, we arrived at night at Tzuchang, north of Yenan in Shensi province. Before turning in we had a look around. It was bright moonlight and all around the sides of the valley flames of charcoal-burning and iron-smelting leaped up.

[1976, Wilfred Burchett, “In Case of War”, in China: The Quality of Life, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:

Zichang county lies between Yan'an and the Great Wall; it is open range country with plenty of land but few people.

1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:

Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites in Zichang County include more than 20 cave houses, the site of the Wayaobao meeting, and living spaces of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi.

2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 316:

A county-level city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.


Ansai

ITINERARY NO. 2.
Yen-an Fu to Yü-lin Fu (via Ching-pien Hsien).
Distance, 211 miles; 10 stages.
Mule track all the way, though big wheeled carts could be used in the Ordos.
STAGE 1. Chou-tung (20 miles). General direction: N.W. Good mule track following valley all the way. Pass An-sai Hsien (15 miles), where there are inns. Cross river once or twice without difficulty. Good inn at Chou-tung (a small village).

[1918, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, “ITINERARIES”, in Sport and Science on the Sino-Mongolian Frontier, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, page 285:

3. Ansai district—Ansai is densely populated and rich in agricultural products; besides, it is safely placed from bombardment.

1941, Nym Wales, China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry, New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., →OCLC, page 297:

Thus, whatever her personal sense of loss and anxiety, she does not so much create an oppositional concept of filial piety as refashion the more public Confucianized image.⁴⁹ There is perhaps some equivalence to this in the Ansai district of Shaanbei, where the folksongs collected by Yellow Earth's film-makers originated, a regional song type identified at the outset of the film as xintianyou.⁵⁰

1999, Jerome Silbergeld, “Drowning on Dry Land: Yellow Earth and the Traditionalism of the 'Avant-garde'”, in China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:

CNPC has partnered with local firms to become the operator of at least five inland liquefaction plants, with its largest plant in Ansai in the northern Shaanxi province to liquefy 500,000 tonnes per year slated to begin operations at the end of 2011.

2010 November 24, Aizhu Chen, “Analysis: Where is gas used next in China? Trucks and trawlers”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-13:

Aerial photo taken on Oct. 21, 2018 shows a view of Danxia landform at Wangjiawan of Pingqiao Town in Ansai District of Yan'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

2018 October 23, “Autumn scenery of Wangjiawan Danxia landform in Shaanxi(1/8)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 2018-11-03:


Zhidan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 志丹 (Zhìdān, literally “Zhidan, name of 劉志丹 (Liu Zhidan)”).

Pao-an was a county in the northwestern part of Shensi Province. It is now called Chihtan County. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had its headquarters there from early July 1936 to January 1937. Later it moved to Yenan.

[1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25:

With so many able-bodied men and women fighting in guerrilla units, old women and children had to work. For example, in “Chih-tan county of district one, a 52 year old woman in Ts’ai-she-p’ing village had reclaimed about two acres of land within only one month.”

[1978 July, Ramon H. Myers, “Peter Schran. Guerrilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region, 1937–1945. […]”, in Economic Development and Cultural Change, volume 26, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 816:

A PetroChina unit in Shaanxi has been shut down after oil from a ruptured pipeline contaminated a source of drinking water for 200,000 residents of the city of Yanan.
The 100-kilometre pipeline, which runs upstream of the Wangyao Reservoir in Zhidan county, was damaged during a landslide sometime before Monday, when the leak was discovered, the local government said.[…]
The landslide that ruptured the pipeline was one among many caused by days of torrential rainfall during the past two weeks. Zhidan county received more than 20cm of rainfall - or 4½ times the rainfall in the same period last year.

2013 July 17, Teddy Ng, “PetroChina unit in Shaanxi shut after pipeline rupture leaks oil into reservoir”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-05, China:

Those county leaders who resisted were soon removed. For example, the county leaders in Zhidan county in Shannxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) province (Zweig, 1983) and Jimo county in Shandong province (Han, 2008) were replaced by those who supported decommunization.

2017, Juan Wang, “The Changes and Continuity of Local State Cohesion”, in The Sinews of State Power: The Rise and Demise of the Cohesive Local State in Rural China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:


Wuqi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳起 /吴起 (Wúqǐ, literally “Wu Qi”).

Wuqi has been able to try a different economic model because it is neither too rich nor too poor. Located in Shaanxi Province, about a third of the way west from Beijing toward Tibet, it is too remote to be a factory boomtown.[…]
In Wuqi, Internet service works quite well, and personal computers have become common in the last few years. “All my colleagues shop online,” says Ma Jingye, 24, who works for the county government. She was using the Internet regularly while she was going to college in Beijing, and when she returned to Wuqi this summer, she was surprised to find it had caught on there, too.

2010 November 24, David Leonhardt, “In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-05-12, Magazine:


Dingbian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 定邊 /定边 (Dìngbiān).

Other motor roads include one running northwestward from Yenan via Ching-pien to the salt-producing area in the vicinity of Ting-pien. Another runs from Ting-pien southeast to Ch’ing-yang. A fourth road reportedly runs from Ch’ing-chien on the Yenan-Mi-chih road to Ching-pien on the Yenan-Ting-pien road.

[1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:

The land of the Hsiaotantzu brigade in Tingpien county was getting only about 100 kg. of grain per mu.

[1975 November, Hsing Hua, “Conquering the Desert”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:

Soil improvement often involves the movement of large quantities of earth, but the Chinese peasants face this task with a high degree of enthusiasm for socialism. A good example is the way the Hsiaotantzu brigade in Tingpien county, Shensi province, set out to change their sandy soil.

[1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:

In April 1942 the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government established a Hui nationality autonomous area consisting of the fourth and fifth districts of Dingbian County and two natural villages of Chengguan Town.

1992, Xiaoping Deng, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 331:

Twelve girls were poisoned on Monday night at their school in Dingbian county of Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency reported. The sole survivor was in serious condition, it added.

2008 December 2, Yu Le, “Carbon monoxide kills 11 Chinese schoolgirls”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-05, WORLD NEWS:


Jingbian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān).

Former dwellings of Chairman Mao Tsetung in northern Shensi's Chingpien County have been opened to the public as historic sites. Chairman Mao stayed there between April and August, 1947, during the war of liberation.

[1978 February 1 [1978 February 1], “Shensi Villages Dedicated as Historic Sites Honoring Mao”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 22, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 2:

JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's.[…]
The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert.[…]
Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him.

2005 July 18, Howard W. French, “Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-29, World:


Hengshan

Born in Hengshan, Shensi, in 1891, he and Liu Chih-tan built the Party there, and its isolated Red base became a sanctuary for the Communists at the end of the Long March.

1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 518:

Then he tried to run away. He wanted to get to Yulin, 240 li away, or to Hengshan, 120 li away.

1965 [1963], Jan Myrdal, quoting Li Yiu-hua, translated by Maurice Michael, Rapport från kinesisk [Report from a Chinese Village], New York: Vintage Books, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 339:

Small arrowheads, small elongated scrapers, and microblades have been found in the Heiliut’uho Valley in Heng-shan Hsien, in what may be a nonceramic context.

[1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

Investigators said the accident was caused by explosives illegally stored at a home in Hengshan County in Shaanxi Province, Xinhua said.[…]
Officials in Hengshan County could not be immediately reached for comment Monday night.

2001 July 16, “41 Die in China Explosives Blast”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:


Zizhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子洲 (Zǐzhōu, literally “Zizhou, name of 李子洲 (Li Zizhou)”).

In Tzuchou County over 60 small coal mines are now in production.

[1970, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

Tzuchou County Revolutionary Committee and people's armed forces department have made big efforts to develop broadcasting.

[1971 May 4 [1971 April 30], Tzuchou County Revolutionary Committee, quotee, “Display the Yenan Spirit and Run Broadcasting Well”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 86, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page H 3:

On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.

2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese, London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365:

I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.

2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:

A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area. Farmers in Zizhou protested against local taxes in 1998 by bringing a lawsuit, based on the Administrative Litigation Law (ALL), against local township officials who had imposed higher and extra taxes.

2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:


Qingjian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清澗 /清涧.

Each time that General Liu Chih-tan arrived in a place, he always opened out his maps and studied them carefully. Then he would look for villagers to talk to, asking them about this and about that. In 1934, he led a part of the Northern Shensi Red Army, stationing them at Hua-an Monastery in Ch'ing-chien County. The chief of the food ministry in Ch’ing-chien County also lived in the village.

[1971, Charles Price Ridley, Paul H. B. Godwin, Dennis J. Doolin, The Making of a Model Citizen in Communist China, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 351:

When this poem was written, Mao Zedong stayed in Yuanjiagou of the Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, planning to lead the Red Army in making an eastern journey to the Anti-Japanese War front at Hebei Province.

1993, Gu Zhengkun (辜正坤), transl., Poems of Mao Zedong, Beijing: Peking University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103:


Suide

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綏德 /绥德 (Suídé).

Comrade Huo Wei-te, vice chairman of the Shantung provincial committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died of illness on 14 June 1977 in Tsinan at the age of 76 despite medical treatment. Comrade Huo Wei-te was from a poor peasant family of (Leichiakuang) village of the (Chunghsiao) commune in Suite County, Shensi Province.

[1977 June 22 [1977 June 21], “Shantung First Secretary Presides Over Memorial Service”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 120, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Tsinan Shantung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 9:

During this debacle, Wei was probably out of harm’s way to the north of the city in Sui-chou, the modern Sui-te county, Shensi ("Composed in Sui-chou”).

[1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “The Life and Times of Wei Chuang”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 29:

“My family is from Suide in Shaanxi Province. I was born in 1989,” wrote a user who identified as Yu Jian, or “Meet,” on the matchmaking website www.ru-zhui.com.

2016 November 11, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Chinese Women Rarely Take Husbands’ Names, but Don’t Credit Feminism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-11-11, ASIA PACIFIC:


Wubu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳堡 /吴堡 (Wúbǔ).

According to an investigation made in Wubu County of Henan Province, the average per capita cash holdings of commune members in the countryside were 10.14 yuan at the end of 1978, 13.98 yuan at the end of 1979, and 20.59 yuan in 1980. In other words, over a 3-year period, the amount increased by over 100 percent.

1982 April 21 [1982 March 20], Yang Chengxun [2799 2110 6064] [楊承訓], “Role of the Rural Market in Promoting China's Modernization Program”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 222, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing JINGJI YANJIU, No 3, pp 20-26, translation of original in Chinese, page 26:

The flux of a flood peak at the Wubu Hydrologic Station in Wubu county of Shaanxi's city of Yulin reached 10,600 cubic meters per second at 1 p.m. Friday, marking the highest level since 1989, the headquarters said.

2012 July 29, “40,800 relocated as flooding hits Yellow River”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2012-07-29:

'In 1972 I was mainly taking disciples at Wubu county – that was because the Wubu Hall of Culture invited me to come to train members for their propaganda team.'

2016, Stephen Jones, Ritual and Music of North China: Volume 2: Shaanbei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=fKmoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT97:


Mizhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 米脂 (Mǐzhī).

Mi-chih (alternative)
Michih (alternative)

Mizhi County, with a population of about 223,000, according to recent government figures, is a major cultural center in Shaanxi Province. It is said to be the birthplace of Diao Chan, a mythical figure who is known as one of the four legendary beauties of ancient China.

2018 April 27, Javier C. Hernández, Iris Zhao, “Knife Attack at Chinese Middle School Leaves Seven Children Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-27, Asia Pacific:

Zhao Zewei, 28, is accused of attacking 19 students near a middle school in Mizhi county in China’s northwestern province of Shaanxi on April 27, the agency said.

2018 May 29, Se Young Lee, “China charges suspect in school stabbing that killed nine”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, Emerging Markets:


Yuyang

Yuyang District of Yulin City is located in the northern part of Shaanxi Province. It has a land of 7,035 square kilometers and a population of 320,000.

2007, Daniel A. Métraux, James W. Yoxall, “Poverty and Migrant Workers”, in The Problems Facing China Today: Politics, Economics, Health, and Religion, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 103:

Yuyang District is located in northern Shaanxi Province where the Maowusu Desert and Loess Plateau meet along the upper reaches of the Wuding River. It is named after the fact that elm was widely planted along this ancient border area. It is the political, economic, and cultural center of Yulin Municipality.

2010, “Survey on the Left-behind Children in Huanggelao Village, Guta Township, Yuyang District, Yulin Municipality, Shaanxi Province”, in Left-Behind Children in Rural China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 269:

Migrant workers who brought their children to live with them in Yulin's Yuyang district have been informed by provincial education bureau officials that they must now provide extra paperwork, including proof of purchase of compulsory pension insurance, before they can enroll them in local schools.

2017 December 15, Qiao Long, Gao Feng, “Protests in Northern China As Migrants' Children Excluded From Schools”, in Luisetta Mudie, editor, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2017-12-15:

Yuyang District, Yulin City of Shaanxi Province committed itself to the goal of "leaving no land uncultivated" by the end of the 12th Five-year Plan period and worked hard to achieve it.

2019, Hao Ran, Zhen Yuan, “Issues in Land Circulation Through Contractual Land Management Systems in Rural China”, in Lin Li, He Tian, Yanbin Lv, editors, Rule of Law in China: A Ten-year Review (2002-2012), →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 219:


Shenmu

In Shenmu County, Shensi Province in the north-western part of China, a medical school for barefoot doctors offers a two year programme.

1972, Paul G. Pickowicz, “Barefoot Doctors in China: People, Politics, and Paramedicine”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 1:

Two tao with three and five perforations, respectively, made of black jade, were found at the site of Shih-mao in Shensi, Yü-lin District, Shen-mu County. Their total lengths are 49 and 55 centimeters.⁴⁷

[1986, Hsia Nai, “The Classification, Nomenclature, and Usage of Shang Dynasty Jades”, in K. C. Chang, editor, Studies of Shang Archaeology: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 228:

By the 20th century, the Ming wall was simply known as the ‘old frontier’ (lǎobiān). For instance, when Frederick Clapp of the Geographical Review reached the Ming wall at Shenmu, Shaanxi, in 1920, he wrote in his article of the trip that 'the natives said: “This is not the ‘Great Wall’; this is the ‘First Frontier Wall’, built only 400 years ago; the ‘Great Wall’ is further north.”'

2006 May, Thammy Evans (谭美), Great Wall of China: Beijing & Northern China (Bradt Travel Guides), 1st edition (Travel), Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10:

Shenmu, and nearby cities like Ordos and Fugu, are at the leading edge of broader troubles that are beginning to afflict the entire Chinese economy. Across China, growth has slowed. With the slowdown have come rising defaults on loans made outside the conventional banking system, chronic overcapacity in many industries like coal mining and steel production and, in particularly troubled cities like Shenmu, a sharp decline in previously debt-fueled prices for real estate and other assets.

2013 August 15, Keith Bradsher, “Easy Credit Dries Up, Choking Growth in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-08-16, Global Business:

A county-level city of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.


Fugu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 府谷 (Fǔgǔ).

Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.

2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256–257:

The explosion occurred in the afternoon in Xinmin, a town in Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, and by early Tuesday rescuers had counted 147 wounded, 113 of whom had been hospitalized, according to Xinhua, the main state news agency.

2016 October 24, Chris Buckley, “Explosion Batters Neighborhood in China, Killing 14 and Wounding Nearly 150”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-27, Asia Pacific:


Tianzhen

Translingual: Tianzhenosaurus

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天鎮 /天镇.

On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.

[1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, “The Flight from Peking and the Court in Exile”, in China Under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.

2014, Kim Hunter Gordon, editor, Datong: A Historical Guide, Matric International Publishing, →ISBN, page 274:

Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.

2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 2020-08-12, China: