康馬

/kʰɑŋ⁵⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɔːŋ⁵⁵ maː¹³/

/kʰɑŋ⁵⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/hɔːŋ⁵⁵ maː¹³/

Borrowed from Tibetan ཁང་དམར (khang dmar).

(～縣) Kangmar (a county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China)


寧蒗

/niŋ³⁵ lɑŋ⁵¹/

/nɪŋ²¹ lɔːŋ²²/

/niŋ³⁵ lɑŋ⁵¹/

/nɪŋ²¹ lɔːŋ²²/

From combining the second character of 永寧／永宁 (Yǒngníng) with the first character of 蒗蕖.

彝族自治縣 彝族自治縣#Chinese

(～彝族自治縣, ～縣) Ninglang (an autonomous county of Lijiang, Yunnan, China)


劍川

/t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

(～縣) Jianchuan (a county of Dali prefecture, Yunnan, China)


隴縣

/lʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/lʊŋ¹³ jyːn²²/

/lʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/lʊŋ¹³ jyːn²²/

Long County, Longxian (a county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China)


滄源

/t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵ ɥɛn³⁵/

/t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵ ɥɛn³⁵/

佤族自治縣 佤族自治縣#Chinese

(～佤族自治縣, ～縣) Cangyuan (an autonomous county of Lincang, Yunnan, China)


米脂

/mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/

/mɐi̯¹³ t͡siː⁵⁵/

/mi²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/

/mɐi̯¹³ t͡siː⁵⁵/

(～縣) Mizhi (a county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China)


貴德

/ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/

/kʷɐi̯³³ tɐk̚⁵/

/ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/

/kʷɐi̯³³ tɐk̚⁵/

(～縣) Guide (a county of Hainan prefecture, Qinghai, China)


越西

/jyːt̚² sɐi̯⁵⁵/

/jyːt̚² sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Name change from homophonous 越嶲 in 1959.

(～縣) Yuexi (a county of Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China)


Dianjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江／垫江 (Diànjiāng).

State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.

2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-27, Asia Pacific:

In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.

2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:


Fengdu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 豐都／丰都 (Fēngdū).

FENGTU COUNTY lies mostly to the north of the Yangtse, and has over 100 market towns.

[1920, R. O. Jolliffe, “The Field”, in Our West China Mission: Being a Somewhat Extensive Summary by the Missionaries on the Field of the Work during the First Twenty-five Years of the Canadian Methodist Mission in the Province of Szechwan, Western China, Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 108:

The last stretch, from K'uei Fu to Chungking, is soothing to the eye after the harsh vistas of the Gorges.[…]
Fengtu, a celebrated town, which owes all its fame to being situated at the foot of the Sacred Mountain of the Son of Heaven, is the residence of the Emperor of the Dead. Just as the Emperor of the Living resided at Peking, the Emperor of the Dead has some occult existence here. When any Taoist believer dies, a priest writes a despatch to the Imperial Headquarters at Fengtu, and the communication is solemnly burnt, this being the convenient means of transit.

[1925 January, A. C. Hyde Lay., “Die Lorelei in China.”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume CCXVII, number MCCCXI, New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95:

The Library of Congress has the largest collection of Chinese local histories outside China, with more than 4,000 titles in all. They are rich in historical data on local institutions, customs, geography, and plants and animals of the area. Shown here is a typical volume from the local history of Feng-tu County, Ssu-ch’uan Province, published in 1710.

[1980, Charles A. Goodrum, “Orientalia”, in Treasures of the Library of Congress, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:

My great aunt was the first to starve in the village; my cousin rushed home from the mining school where he was a student to carry out his duties as eldest son. On his way there, he passed through Fengdu County, and saw the famine's great toll on the populace.

1998 [1997], Hong Ying, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Daughter of the River, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:

He said an algal bloom from too many nutrients earlier this year on a tributary had contaminated drinking water for 50,000 people in Fengdu County.

2007 November 19, Jim Yardley, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-03-10, Asia Pacific, page 2:


都昌

/toʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/

/toʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/

(～縣) Duchang (a county of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China)


Pingli

Teng said a large number of Communists were striking westward from Sian, capital of Shensi province. He added the Nationalists had lost Pingli in southern Shensi after a battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.

1949 July 14, “China Official Swears 'Win All Lose All' Fight”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 30.24-4383:

In Pingli County, Shaanxi Province, China, the Badao bone coal contains 41 to 75 ppm of selenium, with a mean concentration of 57.5 ppm.[…]The local environment in Pingli County was found to contain soil with a mean concentration of 0.3 to 1.1 ppm selenium, and agricultural crops with concentration of 0.57 to 2.75 ppm selenium (Fang and others, 2003).

2017, Critical Mineral Resources of the United States: Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply, number 1802, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 028, column 1:


Shiquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石泉.

This silkworm was found in 1985 in Shiquan County. It is 2.2 inches long, with a nine-jointed body. Its head is raised as if it were spinning silk. Shiquan County being a major producer, the silk industry prospered during the Han dynasty, and gilding techniques were also developed.

1991 [1987], Zongxu (鄒宗緒) Zou, “The Heart of a Powerful Empire”, in Susan Whitfield, transl., The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:

However, last June a police station in Shiquan county in Ankang, in Shaanxi, received a tip-off regarding the whereabouts of Ruixiang.

2017 January 24, Mimi Lau, “Chinese sisters, abducted as teens, reunited with mother after 28 years”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-25, Society:


Baihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白河 (Báihé).

There is a navigable tributary of the Han, the Chiaho (甲河) which joins it at Paihohsien (白河縣) where the Shensi customs barrier for the Han is situated, considerably west of Laohokʻou.

[(Can we date this quote?), Hsian, Past and Present, sourced from North-China Daily News, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

Another time, some youths in the village had gone down the Han River to Gourd Town, Baihe County and on to the city of Xiangyang, and come back with trousers that were tight at the waist and wide at the bottom, which made them seem instantly taller.

1991, Pingwa Jia, “Touch Paper”, in The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:

Between March 4 and April 11 of 1997, 98 migrant workers from Baihe County in Shanxi Province were killed in three different coal mining accidents. According to Baihe County government figures , up to 22,000 rural residents have left home each year for work in the years since 1994.

2004, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, editors, Private and Public Corruption, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265:


Foping

In Shaanxi Province there is one special nature reserve for them at Foping County, southwest of Xi'an and not far from the Qinling Ibis Colony.

1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

A giant panda has been filmed for the first time in the wild breastfeeding a cub, according to state television.
The behaviour was filmed by a local TV crew in Foping county in Shaanxi province, CCTV said.

2017 April 5, Stephen Chen, “Panda filmed for first time breastfeeding cub in wild, says China state TV”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-05, China:

Nine wild boar samples submitted by the provincial forestry bureau were examined and three from Foping county, in the south of Shaanxi, tested positive for the disease, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

2019 December 11, Tom Daly, “China finds African swine fever in wild boar in Shaanxi”, in Susan Fenton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-12-11, Health News:


Ningshan

Sian, Shensi provincial service 13. 00 GMT 11.2.71
[...]The poor and lower-middle peasants and masses in Ningshan County overcame "calamities" [no details given] and scored bumper agricultural harvests last year.

1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:

Those on the northerly route reached Ning-shan on February 16th, were joined there by a surviving group of Shih Ta-k’ai’s expeditionary soldiers under Cheng Chung-ho, and on March 26th converged at Nei-hsiang as planned with Ma Jung-ho’s army from the southerly route.

1973, Jen Yu-wen, “Second Northern Expedition (1861-1868)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 473:

The tiny village of Zhongxi in Ningshan County sat high up in the mountains, miles from anywhere.

2004, Tim Clissold, Mr. China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

A man trekked for 100 kilometers (62 miles) across the Qinling mountain range from the Xi’an airport, avoiding multiple village checkpoints on the way before he was finally spotted and taken into quarantine on December 24, eight days into his journey, according to a statement from the Ningshan county police.

2022 January 4, Nectar Gan, Steve George, “Outcry over Xi’an lockdown tests limits of China’s zero-Covid policy”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-01-03:


Hanyin

Hanyin T'ing, now called Hanyin Hsien, a third class district, is a prosperous little place lying at the head of the fertile Yo River valley, and, like most of the Han basin towns, is more like a Szechuan than a Shensi city.

1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 33:

Shensi fungi first goes to Hanyin (漢陰) and is then shipped to Hankow;[...]

1934 March 17, “Export of Edible Fungus From Szechuan”, in Chinese Economic Bulletin, volume XXIV, number 11, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, →OCLC, pages 170–171:

Cadre Zhao Jianguo, who came to Hanyin County, Shaanxi, from Jiangsu Province, had formerly been the head of a certain township in Zhangjiagang City. As a go-between in building a bridge between the two localities, he had 295 technical cadres and workers of Hanyin County go to Zhangjiagang City for study and training.

1992 March 6 [1991 October 21], Cui Zhongshan (1508 1350 1472), “Supplementing Others Where One's Own Superiority Allows—Interchange Between the Cadres of Jiangsu and Shaanxi Stimulate Economic Development in Both Provinces”, in JPRS Report China, number 92-011, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xi'an SHAANXI RIBAO p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 52, column 2:

Tang Xiaodong, 41, a jewellery dealer from Hanyin county in Shaanxi province, has been on a police wanted list since October 7 for his alleged role in “illegally absorbing” more than 180 million yuan for a “jewellery town” project in the small city of Ankang.
Police in Hanyin are offering the reward for information or assistance leading to Tang’s arrest, according to a public notice.

2019 June 6, Pinghui Zhuang, “Reward: US$145,000 offered to track down Chinese ‘jewellery town’ fugitive”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-06, Society:


Zhenping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮平／镇平 (Zhènpíng).

HONAN NEW COOKING STOVE--Scores of new-type cooking stoves have been introduced into rural Honan Province. The new stoves, as compared with the old ones, generally save about 50 percent on such fuels as coal, firewood, and hay. There had been a shortage of firewood and hay in Chenping County, which has now become self-sufficient in these fuels since 83 percent of the rural families began to use the new stoves.

[1972, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:


Zhenping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮坪／镇坪 (Zhènpíng).

China has succeeded in domesticating musk deer and obtaining the musk while the animal is alive. The Forestry Bureau in western Szechwan Province and a musk-deer farm in Chenping county, Shensi Province, have achieved this.

[1972 August 17 [1972 August 6], “Musk Production”, in Daily Report People's Republic of China, volume I, number 161, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page B 4:


Zhenba

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮巴／镇巴 (Zhènbā).

Education in a Chenpa County Commune (Sian)[…]
(Paho) commune, in Chenpa County, now has 250 per cent more full-time primary schools than before the cultural revolution.

[1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages A-14, 21:

Zhenba County in Shaanxi Province once had a forest cover rate of 60 percent, and floods, droughts and hail were rare. Later, however, many trees were cut down to clear the land for farming when the county started to place a one-sided emphasis on grain production.

1985, “Rural Economic Policy in the New Period”, in Wang Huimin, transl., edited by Luo Hanxian (罗涵先), 中国农村的经济变革 [Economic Changes in Rural China] (China Studies Series), Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 117:

A report on the county of Zhenba described the redistribution in these terms: 16 townships, each having 10 landlords and 100 poor peasants; each landlord owning 111 mu and therefore each poor peasant receiving nearly 2 mu.

1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 238–239:


Linyou

In recent years, important evidence has come to light about a detached palace of the Sui and Tang. Known as Renshougong during the Sui dynasty and as Jiuchenggong in Tang times, its remains lie in Linyou county of Shaanxi province, about 163 kilometers from the capital Daxing-Chang’an.

2002, Xinian Fu, “The Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105:

In April 639 the Emperor was staying in Jiucheng Palace (in Linyou, Shaanxi Province, which is one hundred and sixty kilometers northwest to Chang'an).

2013, Hing Ming Hung, Li Shi Min, Founding the Tang Dynasty: The Strategies that, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161:


Lüeyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 略陽／略阳 (Lüèyáng).

Fu Lang's ancestral home was Linwei (臨渭) in Lüeyang (略陽) commandery (northeast of modern Tianshui (天水), Gansu).

2010, Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature, volume I, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:

Xingzhou was more than five hundred kilometers northeast of Chengdu, in modern Lüeyang 略陽 county, across today's border with Shaanxi.

2019, Franciscus Verellen, Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:


Chenggu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城固.

Zhang Qian, buried in his home town in Chenggu County, was the first envoy in Chinese history to visit the western regions and thus form the initial link between China and her western neighbours.

1991 [1987], Zongxu Zou, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:

The policy-making officials in the war capital of Chung-king had decided to relocate the Northwestern Teachers’ College from Ch’êng-ku county, southern Shênsi province, to Shih-li-tien, literally Ten-miles-distanced store, a suburb of the city of Lanchou, Kansu province.

[2002, Chu Yin-tsung McIntyre, The Snow Storm Over Temple Ta-er, Pittsburg, Penn.: Dorrance Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:

Li Jianguo, 49, headmaster of a rural primary school in Chenggu county in the northwester province of Shaanxi, was convicted of crimes committed from October of last year to May 2007.

2007 September 3, “Chinese primary school headmaster jailed for rape”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-02, World News:


Nanzheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南鄭／南郑.

The Shensi Provincial CCP Committee recently issued a circular on its decision to take disciplinary action against (Tung Han-lu), deputy director of the Nancheng County Culture and Education Bureau, for making mistakes in student enrollment.

[1978 February 2 [1978 January 31], “Shensi CCP Committee Denounces Mistakes in Student Enrollment”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 23, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 4:

In November a district of Nanzheng County set a fixed increase in family income as an "economic prerequisite" for only-daughter families seeking permission to have a second child.

1990, John S. Aird, Slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China, Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 181:

The Xinhua state news agency said the attack occurred at 8 a.m. at a kindergarten in Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City.

2010 May 12, “7 Children Killed in School in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-05-16:

Eleven children were wounded in the attack soon after the school day started in Nanzheng county, a rural corner of Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

2021 March 19, Chris Buckley, Huang Yan, “Nine killed in latest China school rampage”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-07, World News:


Liuba

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 留壩／留坝 (Liúbà).

The initial motivation to go on a pilgrimage is also often twofold: one cannot pass Hanzhong without going to the Zhangliangmiao in Liuba County, and it is good to go to a holy place if one has a sick mother or a child of marriageable age.

2013, Adeline Herrou, translated by Livia Kohn, A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China, Three Pines Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77:

On arriving in Hanzhong, Yongbao rushed into the Qinling Mountains to fight Zhang Hanchao.[…]When the two met at the seat of Liuba county after the battle, they quarreled bitterly: Yongbao accused Mingliang of not having come to his rescue sooner, and Mingliang blamed Yongbao for being defeated by the rebels.

2019, Yingcong Dai, “Mingliang's Fall and Nayancheng's Debut at the War Front”, in The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:


Qianyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 千陽／千阳 (Qiānyáng)／汧陽／汧阳.

Chienyang County, Shensi, has since last winter completed more than 50 water conservancy projects, including 14 reservoirs, increasing its irrigated area by over 65,000 mou.

[1971 August 20 [1971 August 14], “Shensi Water Conservancy”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 162, 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 4:

Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.

[1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:

大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗

In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.

1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 58–59:


Taibai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 太白 (Tàibái).

During the Cultural Revolution, Taipai County built 44 roads, increasing the length of motorable road by 360 kilometers.

[1974 June 6 [1974 June 1], “Briefs: Shensi County Road-Building”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 110, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:

By 1969, Jia Qianrui and Hong Youdao initiated the relocation of the 22 Base’s central nuclear warhead storage functions to Taibai County, Shaanxi Province.
A number of factors may have led to the move. First, Taibai County may have been designated as the ultimate location of China’s nuclear weapons stockpile as early as 1958. Taibai County had been identified as a candidate reserve storage site in the 1958 survey, and this may have been a factor in the establishment of Taibai County in the early-1960s.

2013 July, Mark A. Stokes, “Securing Nuclear Arsenals: A Chinese Case Study”, in Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?, Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 71–72:


Ningqiang

/ˌnɪŋˈt͡ʃjɑŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧強／宁强.

The troops of the ambitious Ch’in widened the old road which ran through the mountainous region, leading from the modern city of Ning-ch’iang 甯羌 in Shensi, into the Red Basin, by way of the modern cities of Kuang-yüan 廣元, Chao-hua 昭化 and Chien-ko 劍閣 in Szechwan.

[1967, Chêng Tê-k’un, “Outline of the Study: Geographical and Historical Background”, in Archaeological Studies in Szechwan, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 9:

The poorly fossiliferous lower redbeds of the Yangtze Platform Silurian sequence, the Rongxi Formation, have long presented a serious correlation problem. However, with the discovery in Ningqiang County, Shaanxi, that the laterally- equivalent Wangjiawan Formation contains a useful graptolitic and shelly fauna, this problem has been satisfactorily resolved.

1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15, column 2:

The latest fatality occurred in Ningqiang County, in Shaanxi Province, where a 5.6-magnitude quake struck at 3:54 a.m. The two other quakes followed, with the last being the strongest, at a magnitude of 6.0, at the juncture of Ningqiang County and Qingchuan County, in Sichuan Province.

2008 July 25, Edward Wong, “China: 3 Quakes Rattle Western Region, Killing One”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-25, Asia Pacific:

The development in tourism industry also promoted regional economic transformation and development. Located in Qinling-Bashan Mountains, Ningshaan County in Ankang has 28 tourism projects under construction at present with total investment of RMB 38 billion yuan. “In the past decade, the proportion of tourism revenue to GDP in Ningqiang County has increased from less than 3% to more than 20% and tourism industry has become a pillar industry.” said Lv Xuanqiang, Director of Tourism Administration of NingShaan County.

2017 May 12, “Shaanxi “Happiness Industry” as a New Way to Enrich the People and Develop the Province”, in The Government Website of Shaanxi Province, archived from the original on 2022-09-08:


Langao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 嵐皋／岚皋.

Distribution and habitat. Coniogramme bashanensis known only from Langao County in Shaanxi Province, China. Langao County is located in the middle of the northern slope of Mt. Bashan.

2013 May 24, Xiao-si Guo, Jian-ping Chen, “Coniogramme bashanensis (Pteridaceae), a New Fern Species from Shaanxi, China”, in Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 292:

Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network
* Says it signs e-commerce cooperation agreement Langao County govt, Shaanxi Province

2016 May 29, “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network signs e-commerce cooperation agreement with govt”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, Broadcasting:


Xixiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西鄉／西乡.

Shensi has a complicated terrain, characterized by an ascending trend from south to north. The Ta Pa Shan range rises in the south, on the Szechwan-Shensi border. Its highest peak, Pa Shan, rises to 9,843 ft., near Sisiang County.

[1965, Alfred C. Tan, “SHENSI”, in Collier's Encyclopedia, with Bibliography and Index, volume 20, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 670, column 2:

By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site in Hsi-hsiang county, Shensi, on the southern side of the Ch’in-ling Mountain.

[1975, Ping-ti Ho, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

Established in 1952, the Communist Party branch of Yanghopa Township, Hsihsiang County, Shensi Province, now has 22 members. All of them have joined local mutual-aid and co-operative organizations in which they play the role of backbone and pace-setters.

[1978 [1955 July 6], “The Party Branch of Yanghopa Township, Hsihsiang County, Gives Correct Leadership to Mutual Aid and Co-operation”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 214:

中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）

Huashang Daily investigated the local budget of Xixiang County in Hanzhong, Shanxi province in 2009 to learn about the effects of school merging. “The mergers saved the county almost 500 million yuan over the next 30 years,” it wrote.

2015 February 13, Yang Xin, “Students Left to Suffer Even as School Mergings End”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 6:

Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network Intermediary Group Co.,Ltd.:
* Says it signs cooperation agreement with Xixiang County People’s Government, to undertake digital cable television, radio and television broadband construction project

2016 August 9, “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network Intermediary Group signs agreement”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-07, TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:


Chengcheng

/t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

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

[1980, Cho-yun Hsu, edited by Jack L. Dull, 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:


Fengxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鳳翔／凤翔 (Fèngxiáng).

In the verandah on the north side of the Ta Ch’eng Men (Gate of Great Perfection) which leads to the main enclosure, there used to stand ten drum-shaped blocks of black granite, the famous “STONE DRUMS."[…]
About seven miles south of Fenghsiang, in the province of Shensi, is a place still called Shih Ku Yuan (Stone Drums’ Origin) which is probably the spot where they were first hewn out.

[1935, L. C. Arlington, “The Temple of Confucius and the Lama Temple”, in In Search of Old Peking, published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

A wealthy Chinese Christian in Shensi, planning to move to the safety of Szechuan province, now offered to lend the Bible School some larger premises he owned in Paoki, a city at the end of the railway line to the south west of Fengsiang. They therefore gladly moved from their crowded quarters, leaving the Fishers alone in the Fengsiang compound.

[1986, Dorothy R. Pape, “The Red Grip Tightens”, in Go for it!, Burlington, Ontario: Welch Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89-90:

"Archeologists drew almost a complete blank in their search of the inner tomb," the official New China News Agency said Saturday in a report of excavations at the tomb site, thought to be between 2,200 and 2,800 years old. The site is in Fengxiang County of Shaanxi Province, about 90 miles west of the ancient Yellow River capital of Xian.

1986 June 16, “CHINESE TOMB FOUND TO BE VICTIM OF GRAVE ROBBERS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, B, page 10:

The lead and zinc smelter in Changqing in Fengxiang county, close to Baoji city in Shaanxi province, has about 33,000 tonnes of annual lead capacity and 66,000 tonnes of zinc capacity.[…]
The incident in Fengxiang county also caused authorities to tighten controls and checks on lead smelters nationwide and close three smelting facilities in Jiyuan city in neighbouring Henan province, the top producing area in China, which is the world's top maker of metal widely used in batteries.

2010 March 12, Polly Yam, “China Dongling to reopen lead/zinc plant this month”, in Ed Lane, editor, Reuters, sourced from HONG KONG, archived from the original on 2010-11-15:


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:


Mizhi

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

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:


Jingbian

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

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:


Jingyang

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

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:


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:


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:


Yuzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榆中 (Yúzhōng).

/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/

/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒʊŋ/

In the Shanzhuang district of Yuzhong County in Gansu, the annual average per capita grain intake was only 20-50 kilograms, and of the 49 production teams in the whole district, 48 had an average per capita income of less than 40 yuan.

1991, Bochuan He, “Questions of Pace and Regional Development”, in China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development, China Books and Periodicals, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:

In May 1939 China’s Nationalist government, worried about the use Japan might make of the remains, ordered the most holy objects — the caskets of Chinggis, and Borte and of Qulan and the black four-footed standard — transported to a Taoist temple in Yuzhong county, Gansu.

2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Eight White Yurts”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164, column 2:

A directive from Yuzhong County in the northwestern province of Gansu declared, for example: “Since the abrupt changes in Tunisia and Egypt, Western forces hostile to China have been itching to do something and do their utmost to stir up a fuss.”

2011 April 8, Chris Buckley, Sui-Lee Wee, “Fear and swagger drive China's clampdown on dissent”, in John Chalmers, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-07-02, World News:

The official Weibo account of the Yuzhong Public Security Bureau in Lanzhou said that two police officers at the local Peace Police Station had “stopped working” and that the events were being investigated by the police and by other branches of government.

2016 May 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Accusations of Brutality Cast Harsh Light on Chinese Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-05-22, Asia Pacific:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


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:


Yanggao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽高／阳高.

At the time of writing this introduction, he had just concluded a trip to Shanxi where he studied an anthropological site at Xujiayao, Yangkao County.

[1980, Jia Lanpo, 中国大陆上的远古居民 [Early Man in China], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page https://archive.org/details/earlymaninchina0000jial_y0h3/page/111/:

During a conversation in the hotel where they were staying, Wei Qi related that at a village named Xujiayao (Hsu Chia Yao) in Yanggao County, Shanxi Province, the villagers had dug up thousands of kilogrammes of dragon bones and had delivered them to the local trading co-op for sale.

1990, Jia Lanpo, Huang Weiwen, The Story of Peking Man: From Archaeology to Mystery, Foreign Languages Press; Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:

Like Baopingbao, Zhenbianbao is also a fortressed village, but its reserves of water have helped it to survive intact. About 1,000 people still live within its thick 20-meter-high yellow mud walls. Yu You is among the oldest residents; she's 82. She came to the village when she was 17. Like Tian she is from Inner Mongolia and married a farmer named Han living in Zhenbianbao, in Yanggao County, a two-hour drive on mostly dirt roads from Baopingbao.

1999 June 10, Mia Turner, “The Vanishing Fortress Villages of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-10, Style:


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:


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:


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:


Lingqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靈邱／靈丘／灵丘.

In 1948 a report was published to show the usefulness of special organizations for women. It said that in the winter of 1947 several defunct organizations for women had been abolished in Lingqiu county, Shanxi, and at the beginning of mobilizing for land reform no distinction had been made between men and women, who all joined the New Peasants’ Association and the Poor Peasants' League.

1979, Delia Davin, Woman-Work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 43–44:

Aerial photo taken on Feb. 25, 2021 shows villagers rehearsing dragon dance in Andi Village, Lingqiu County, north China's Shanxi Province. Performing dragon and lion dance during the first month of the lunar year is a century-long tradition in Andi Village. Last year, this folk activity was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Datong City organized a "Village Gala" to promote local folk activities on the internet. Andi Village's tradition performance was selected in the event.

2021 March 2, “Villagers rehearse dragon and lion dance in Andi Village, Shanxi”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2022-05-13:


Zhouzhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周至 (Zhōuzhì).

Although data on state farms in recent years are sketchy, their general situation and problems appear to be essentially the same as they were in the 1950s and the 1960s. At a provincewide symposium of state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises, convened in Chouchih, Shensi Province, in May 1975, the participants were told that although the proportion of the enterprises in the entire rural economy was "still not great," they occupied an important position in China's socialist agriculture.

[1976, Leslie T. C. Kuo, Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:

The Chouchih County CCP Committee has once again organized 190,000 people to go in for harnessing the Wei River.

[1978 January 25 [1978 January 17], “Shensi Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 17, 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 2:

The Lao River lies to the south-west of Xian within Zhouzhi and Huxian Counties.

1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

More than 100 taxi drivers who crowded a town square in Zhouzhi county, in northwestern Shaanxi province, went back to work on Tuesday after authorities promised to crack down on unlicensed cabs, the Beijing News said.

2008 November 25, Ian Ransom, “Cabbies in two Chinese cities call off strikes”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-10, Latest Crisis:


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:


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:

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:


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:


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:


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:


Hunyuan

To help the people this spring, Tls. 20,000 have been set apart by the government, and 14,000 piculs of grain taken from Hunyuan and other places.

1894 [1893 April 20], “Relief Measures in Shansi”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1893, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 50, column 2:

Hunyuan at the foot of Heng Shan is a pleasant place to stay over for a while in.

1966 April, Rewi Alley, “Some Ancient Sites in Yenpei”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 1:

Death certificates were tabulated to map morality from esophageal cancer in the 181 counties and cities of the survey. The counties with the highest incidences were Yangcheng and Hopi with rates, respectively, of 135 and 140 per 100,000. By contrast, in Hunyuan County the rate was under 2 per 100,000.

1975 June 17, Walter Sullivan, “CHINA STUDY LINKS CANCER TO REGION”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-05, page 66:

Xuankong, or Suspended Temple, is situated 5 kilometers south of the Hunyuan County seat in Shanxi Province.

2007, Shunxun Nan, Beverly Foit-Albert, China's Sacred Sites, Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:

Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain haemorrhage after over 20 thugs set upon him and his taxi driver on January 10 at a mine in Hunyuan county, in the northern province of Shanxi.

2007 January 24, “China's Hu takes up case of dead reporter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-10, World News:


Liquan

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

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:


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:


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:


Yichuan

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:


Zuoyun

Translingual: Zuoyunlong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左雲／左云 (Zuǒyún).

In November 2006, explosions at two Shanxi mines, one in Yuanping and the other in Jinzhong, killed 109 people. Earlier in the year, a coal mine flood in Zuoyun county killed 56 miners.

2007, The China Business Handbook 2007, 10th edition, Shenzhen: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:

The coal mine boss, Li Fuyuan, 45 this year, was found guilty of failing to adopt effective measures after learning of flooding in his mine in Zuoyun county last May 18, the newspaper said.

2007 February 26, “China jails mine boss after flood kills 56”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-09, Latest Crisis:

After a flood drowned fifty-six miners at the Xinjing coal mine in Zuoyun county, Shanxi, the operator falsely claimed that only five miners had been trapped inside. The township head and Party secretary both knew the real number of miners trapped underground and aided the mine operator in sending family members of the trapped miners to neighboring Inner Mongolia in order to prevent them from speaking to the press.

2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World, AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 419–420:

Across Shanxi in the 1990s, one-sixth of rural income was dependent on coal (Zhang Yanan 2000: 37). In Zuoyun, coal was crucial to income growth in the 1980s.

2012, Tim Wright, The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:

Zuoyunlong huangi was a basal hadrosaurid that lived in the late Cretaceous, in what is now Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China.
[...]The genus name Zuoyunlong means "Zuoyun dragon," and refers to Zuoyun, where the dinosaur was discovered.
The species names huangi is in honor of Mr. Huang Wei-Long "who excavated the first dinosaurs in Zuoyun County and even Shanxi Province in 1957."

2019, Sabrina Ricci, Garret Kruger, “Zuoyunlong huangi”, in 50 Dinosaur Tales, →ISBN:


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:


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:


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:


Zizhou

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

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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:


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:


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:


Shenchi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 神池.

The Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway links Shenchi county in Shanxi to Huanghua port in Hebei, and will be an important route for coal transportation from west to east in China.

2004, China Business Guide, 2nd edition, Singapore: China Knowledge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 504, column 2:

Jin Ruilin, former deputy mayor of Datong city and candidate for mayor in the next election, is under “investigation by the organisation” for “serious violations of discipline,” – a term commonly used to infer corruption - the provincial party internal disciplinary commission said on Thursday.
Jin began his political career as a typist in Shenchi county’s party headquarters in 1977.

2014 May 15, Stephen Chen, “Ninth official at centre of graft probe in Shanxi”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-22, China:


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, Guerilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghia 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:


Liulin

Liulin County, Shansi, has a population of 183,000 and an area of 1.92 million mou, of which more than 57,700 mou is cultivated land subject to serious water loss and soil erosion.

1973 November 21 [1973 November 18], “SHANSI COUNTY GRAIN PRODUCTION”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 225, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page F 7:

In 2009, of the 24 large coal mines in Liulin County, where Liansheng Group is headquartered, Liansheng controlled about a third.

2013 December 18, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “A Chinese Coal Baron Tumbles into Debt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-18, Sinosphere:


Kelan

Some 29 peasant-physicians have just completed their 30-month course of training in a remote mountain village in Kolan County, Shansi Province, north China.[…]
The school was set up by the Kolan county hospital in 1963.

[1966 May 20 [1966 May 19], “NEW TYPE OF PEASANT-DOCTORS BEING TRAINED”, in Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 98, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page CCC 7:

65. The missile test range’s monitoring network is centered in Kelan County, but it has some tracking and monitoring facilities in Wuzhai and Xingxian.

1994, John Wilson Lewis, Xue Litai, China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 311:

Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center is located in Kelan County, northern Shanxi Province, nearly 300 km (480 mi) away from Taiyuan city, the provincial capital, and 500 km (800 mi) southwest of Beijing.

2008, Peter Bond, Jane's Space Recognition Guide, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 152:


Pinglu

zh-l

平陸／平陆 (Pínglù)

More amazing, perhaps, than the advance in decorative technique is the existence, as early as the mid-second millennium BCE, of foundries that could handle such monumental castings as the fang ding (cat. 22). Nor was this rectangular cauldron, which weighs about 40 kilograms and is S2 centimeters high, entirely unique in its time: it was found, in a shallow pit at Qian village, Pinglu county, Shanxi Province, with two round ding vessels, each about 70 centimeters high.

1998, China 5,000 Years, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77:


Wuzhai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五寨 (Wǔzhài).

This specimen (No. 2040) bears a notation to the effect that the actual collection was made by a Chinese railroad inspector, Tchuang Kieh. in September 1922 at Wu Chai Hsien, Shansi Province, China, at an elevation of 6,000 to 9,000 feet. The specimen was identified as a form of Lespedeza bicolor in 1926 by A. K. Schindler.

[1952 March, Franklin J. Crider, Natob—A New Bush Lespedeza For Soil Conservation, number 900, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 2:

On leaving Shenchi, the way lay up a wide valley, on a good road. Then we took to the hills in Wuzhai (Wuchai) county, winding amongst mountain ridges, until we came to Hequ (Hochu) county, where there were more mountains, wild serrated loess country, but everywhere trees and then more trees.

1979 January, Rewi Alley, “Yanbei and Xinxian Prefectures in 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 1:

In Wuzhai, a county in north-west Shanxi, they found the Communist prefectural government, and after two weeks’ rest in an army service station my mother was assigned to the town of Wuzhai, with responsibility for training local Party officials.

2000, Aiping Mu, “The East is Red: Hard Times for New Arrivals (1946-1951)”, in Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:


Loufan

婁煩／娄烦 (Lóufán)

At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said.

2008 July 31, Shipeng Guo, “China mine disasters kill 20, landslide buries 10”, Latest Crisis, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-12:

On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people.

2010, John Naisbitt, Doris Naisbitt, China's Megatrends, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:


Qingxu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清徐.

Secretary of the Chinghsu County CCP Committee (Yang Ming) and Deputy Secretary (Tao Hsiao-li) have spoken about their study experiences at forums of county, commune, and brigade cadres.

[1971 October 20 [1971 October 3], “Taiyuan Municipality Develops Study Campaign”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 203, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page F 5:

Zhao Guifa was born in Zhaojiabao, Qingxu county, Taiyuan, in 1940. He was originally the Zhaojiabao accountant and secretary of the CCP committee, having joined the CCP in 1973.

1999, David S. G. Goodman, “The New Middle Class”, in Merle Goldman, Roderick MacFarquhar, editors, The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:

Torrential rains have battered the northern Chinese province of Shanxi in the past few days, leaving parts of the provincial capital Taiyuan and other areas under water, with bridges, railway lines, and houses collapsing after multiple landslides, local residents told RFA on Thursday.[...]
State broadcaster CCTV reported that more than 15,000 residents of eight villages in Qingxu county had been evacuated after a river burst its banks and flooded Xiaowu village, where rescue work is still in progress.

2021 October 7, Qiao Long, “Villagers Complain of Scant Help in China's Shanxi Amid Flooding, Landslides”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2021-10-07:


Fanshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 繁峙 (Fánshì).

After criticizing swindlers like Liu Shao-chi, poor and lower-middle peasants of the (Aotzutou) brigade in Fanshih County "turned their righteous anger into strength and did one and a half days' work in one day." These examples greatly inspired the cadres.

[1972 March 7 [1972 March 5], “Party Promotes Criticims Campaign in Shansi Region”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 46, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 10:

Scholars have been intrigued to learn of an almost one-to-one correspondence between the plan of the Jin palace city as described in Lanbei lu and the plan derived from paintings of Buddhist paradises on the walls of the south hall of Yanshan Monastery in Fanshi county, Shanxi.

2002, Daiheng Guo, “The Liao, Song, Xi Xia, and Jin Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

The higher authorities saw all such activity as a counterrevolutionary attempt to infiltrate state and Party organs from within, but it is likely that some officials and Party members saw no contradiction between their political and religious affiliations, especially in areas, such as Fanshi County, where the sects were fairly well integrated into community life.

2015, S. A. Smith, “Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s”, in Jeremy Brown, Matthew D. Johnson, editors, Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 350–351:

Art teacher Zhao Wenrui draws on chalkboard at Binhe Elementary School in Fanshi County, North China’s Shanxi Province, July 4, 2019.

2019 July 5, “Teacher draws stunning chalkboard drawings(1/5)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 2019-07-13:


Ningwu

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧武／宁武 (Níngwǔ), a clipping of 寧武關／宁武关 (Níngwǔguān, “Pacified Military Pass”).

The last item, also a news report , deals with the rural medical cooperation system of a production brigade in Ningwu County, Shansi Province, which has been developed through PLA assistance.

1970, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, →OCLC, page B 11:

A classic problem case is reported from Ningwu county in northern Shanxi (People's Daily, 23 Mar. 1980). In this area, a rural household uses 30 jin of firewood daily, of which one-half may be sound mature timber.

1985, Frank Leeming, “The Chinese forests”, in Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138, column 2:

The explosion took place on Friday at Niuxinhui Coal Mine in Ningwu county of Shanxi province, when 30 miners were working underground, Xinhua said, citing Tan Shengwang, head of the county's work safety administration.

2007 January 21, “China coal mine blast kills 13 in Shanxi”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-05, Latest Crisis: