Li

The West Hanshui River flows through the flatland of Qishan Township east of Lixian County, Gansu Province.[…]
Zhuge launched his first northern expedition. He arrived at Qishan Mountain in Lixian County, where he set up his headquarters on the shore of the West Hanshui River.

[1995 October, “Qishan Fort: Zhuge's Commanding Camp”, in China Tourism, number 183, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56, column 1:


Lanzhou

Translingual: Lanzhousaurus

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu).

zh-l

蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu)

Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.

2008, William Lindesay, The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:

In northwestern Gansu province, where nine local confirmed cases have been reported in the past week, primary and high schools in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, as well as in one county in Jiuquan city, have suspended offline classes.

2021 October 21, Ryan Woo, Roxanne Liu, Liangping Gao, “Parts of northern China brace for more COVID-19 lockdowns and curbs”, in Christian Schmollinger, Gerry Doyle, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-21, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals:

A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Gansu, in northwestern China.


Suzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅州／肃州 (Sùzhōu).

A district of the prefecture-level city of Jiuquan, Gansu, China.

A town in the county-level city of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.


Aksay

A Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.


Longxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 隴西／陇西 (Lǒngxī).

In early 1971 we received a box of fossils and a letter from a worker at an alcohol plant in Lunghsi county, Kansu province.

[1973 November, Chen Chang, “Fossils Sent from Across the Land”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 11, Peking, →OCLC, page 43, column 3:

Middle and primary schools in Lunghsi County, Fukien, have vigorously popularized part-time work and part-time study activities. Before liberation, Lunghsi County was very backward in education, but after liberation, particularly since the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Lunghsi has made rapid progress in education.

[1975 October 7 [1975 September 4], “Fukien County Schools Combine Study, Work Activity”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 320, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, →OCLC, page 9:

I come from Longxi County in Gansu Province.

1997, Dongdong Dai, “Shepherd Girl”, in Howard Giskin, editor, Chinese Folktales, Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:

The launch marks Luoyang the first city to be featured in the iQIYI Chinese Historic City Universe (iCHCU), which, encompassing a variety of content drawing inspiration from Beijing, Guangzhou, Longxi county of Dingxi, Dunhuang, Nanjing, and other Chinese cities, aims to bridge between China’s local culture and iQIYI’s global audience.

2021 November 29, “iQIYI Debuts Original Series Luoyang Globally, As Part of Its IP Universe”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2021-11-29:


Qinzhou

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 秦州 (Qínzhōu).

Qincheng (now called Qinzhou) District Court, in Gansu Province's Tianshui City, in Northwestern China, also saw high numbers of counterrevolutionary trials during the early 1950s.

2018, William Hurst, “Law and Revolution: Mobilizational Justice and Charismatic Politics”, in Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society), Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:

A district in modern Tianshui, Gansu, China.


Dongxiang

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東鄉／东乡 (Dōngxiāng).

The most recent census found 513,000 Dongxiang people in China, and an overwhelming majority live in and around Dongxiang County. Of the 25 townships in the county, 19 do not have a single Chinese person. Most people do not speak Chinese, and some, like Mr. Tie, have only a vague notion of China, despite living in the middle of it.

2006 March 19, Jim Yardley, “Deep in China, a Poor and Pious Muslim Enclave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-21, Asia Pacific:

An autonomous county of Linxia prefecture, Gansu, China


Yongchang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永昌 (Yǒngchāng).

Ma Jinchang had her sent to his home in Yongchang County about 50 kilometres west of Wuwei where his chief wife, some domestic staff and about twenty guards maintained a residence which he visited periodically.

1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:

A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Jinchang

/d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃæŋ/

/d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃɑŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金昌 (Jīnchāng).

When we reach Jinchang, another forlorn desert town, I change buses for another two-hour ride to the town of Yongchang, a few miles from a village where I’ve heard that locals make some extraordinary claims about their ancestry.

2007, Rob Gifford, China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:

It happened at 5:18 a.m. as the train negotiated a curve in the city of Jinchang in Gansu province about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) west of Beijing.

2021 June 4, “Train strikes, kills 9 workers on track in northwest China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-06-04:

In Jinchuan District and Lanzhou New District, both in Jinchang, the supermarkets provide "shared products" to residents, where residents can borrow ladders or other tools as needed.

2023 February 4 [2023 January], “Building a Beautiful Home”, in All-China Women's Federation, archived from the original on 2023-03-08, Women in Action:

A prefecture-level city in Gansu, in northwestern China.

金昌

a prefecture-level city in north-western China


Jinchuan

/d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃwɑn/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金川 (Jīnchuān).

A district of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Jiuquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán).

There is considerable evidence that China is pushing its nuclear program in this area. Much of what goes on here, particularly around a wind-swept old oasis town named Chiuchuan (Liquor Springs), is known only to a few select planners — and perhaps to the distant American and Chinese specialists who evaluate the contents of monitoring devices borne by American-built U-2s flown from Taiwan.

[1963, Loren Fessler, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (Life World Library), New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.

[1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

The program has also suffered the occasional setback. The northwestern satellite launch center of Jiuquan reported that an optical satellite launched midday Saturday failed to enter its preset orbit after abnormalities were observed during the flight of its carrier rocket.

2020 September 12, “China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-19:

A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.


Tai'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 泰安 (Tài'ān).

A village in Beiwan, Jingyuan, Baiyin, Gansu, China.


Dunhuang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 敦煌 (Dūnhuáng).

A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.


Xihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西和 (Xīhé).

BRIEFS NORTHWEST REGION KANSU COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS WORK -- Some 80 staffers and workers of the Hsiho County Posts and Telecommunications Bureau have readjusted the postroads in the county three times.

[1976, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 128-148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

Conflicting or multiple locations are given for Qiu Pool. Probably the one Du Fu was thinking of was atop Qiu Pool Mountain 仇池山 in modern Xihe County 西和縣, Gansu.

2006, Ronald Egan, “Art Collecting and Its Discontents in the Lives of Su Shi, Wang Shen, and Mi Fu”, in The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 271, Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 222:

In the second grade classroom of Shili Zhongxin Primary School, Xihe County, Gansu Province, 8-year-old Ren Xiang always comes early for morning reading.[…]
The Wenchuan quake of 2008 damaged or destroyed 334 schools and kindergartens in Xihe County.

2011 May 13, Li Zhixin, “Ministry-UNICEF quake qork an impressive success”, in Beijing Today [今日北京], number 518, →ISSN, →OCLC, News, page 2, column 5:


Subei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 肅北／肃北 (Sùběi).

In western Gansu, including Subei and Minle Counties, the lower part of the Xiaoshihugou Formation contains purple-red, thick- to thin-bedded, fine-grained sandstone.

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 32:

CHINA Some of China's main nuclear facilities: Subei: Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex, including plutonium production and weapons assembly.

1998 May 14, Kenneth J. Cooper, “INDIA CONDUCTS 2ND ROUND OF NUCLEAR TESTS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-27:

Twenty two people have been put in quarantine in Subei county near Jiuquan after a man died last week from pneumonic plague, the West China Business News reports. The national health authorities have sent experts to help deal with the case.

2014 October 19, “Row over smoke from dog meat eatery; dad stabs son, 9, over bed-wetting; teens rescued from sex trade”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, China Insider:

A Mongol autonomous county in Jiuquan, Gansu, China.

肅北

Mongol autonomous county in western China


Baisha

From the Mandarin 白沙 (Báishā, literally “white sand”).

bor

A town in Qingshui, Tianshui, Gansu, China


Huangqu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃渠／黄渠 (Huángqú).

In a Gansu court record, Dui Hua discovered an incident leading to the arrest of more than thirty Almighty God members. On December 6, 2012, 32 members of the Almighty God group entered a busy area near a Huangqu Township government building in Dunhuang city to distribute religious texts and perform religious songs and dance.

2018 June, “PRISONER UPDATE”, in Dui Hua Foundation, archived from the original on 2021-04-11:

Tourists visit a forest of desert poplar or populus euphratica in Huangqu Town, Dunhuang City, Northwest China's Gansu Province. During the autumn months, the town has drawn tourists eager to see the striking golden leaves of the trees against clear, blue skies.

2018 October 12, “Golden leaves draw tourists to northwestern county (1/6)”, in Yao Lan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 2018-10-20:

A town in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.


Zhuanqukou

jwänʹchüʹkōʹ

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 轉渠口／转渠口.

Generally, the water level had a rising trend in the north of Huangqu town and Zhuanqukou town and along both sides of Dang river, but the level in the east and west of Danghe had a[...]

2011, Juncang Yang, Zhiheng Li, “The dynamic trends and prevention countermeasures of groundwater in Danghe irrigation, Dunhuang basin”, in 2011 International Symposium on Water Resource and Environmental Protection, →DOI, →OCLC:

A middle-aged famer from Zhuanqukou Village says that his annual income from the crops is only 2,000 yuan (US$322.2 yuan), a number which is barely there. Water shortage has become a bottleneck for the economic development of Dunhuang, Gansu Province.

2014 April 8, “The endless dry spells of Dunhuang”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2021-05-24:

In addition, according to the monitoring data of groundwater level twice per year in the Danghe irrigation area from 2008 to 2010, the declined range of 0.10–0.50 m/a was mainly occurred from Suzhou town to Mengjiaqiao town and the Northeastern Mogao town; the declined range of 0.10–0.30 m/a was mainly distributed from Zhuanqukou, Guojiabao to Mogao town and around them; the declined range of 0.10–0.20 m/a was mainly distributed in the south of the Dunhuang irrigation area and other districts.

2016 June, “Land use/land cover change and driving effects of water environment system in Dunhuang Basin, northwestern China”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 75, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-25, page 9:

A nurse of the Dunhuang medical community gives a patient an intravenous injection at the central hospital of Zhuanqukou town, Dunhuang city, Gansu province, Nov 27, 2018

2018 November 28, “Dunhuang medical community improves treatment”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 2021-05-24:

There are nine towns in Dunhuang, Shazhou Town, Mogao Town, Yueyaquan Town, Zhuanqukou Town, Qili Town, Yangguan Town, Suzhou Town, Guojiapuzhen Village and Huangqu Village.

2022, Jinbao Liu, “Thosuand's Years of Vicissitudes About Dunhuang”, in Ming Chen, Meng Wang, transl., The General Theory of Dunhuang Studies, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:


Lanchow

Postal romanization of Mandarin 蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu)

zh-l

蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu)

THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.

1928, Owen Lattimore, “The Danger Line in the Far East”, in North American Review, volume 226, New York, page 492:

Lanchow, the provincial capital, has been for centuries known as an important crossing place on the Yellow River which flows through the city. Both railway and road bridges have now been built across the river. These bridges add considerably to the beauty of the landscape around Lanchow.
With convenient access to communications and sources of coal, water power and animal products, Lanchow has excellent prospects for the development of heavy and light industries.

1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 198:

Trade caravans traveled from Kuldja to distant Peking, passing through Urumchi [Tihwa] and Lanchow [Kaolan].

1966 [1957], Михаил Иосифович Сладковский, “Border Trade and Commercial Relations Between Russia and China from the Middle fo the 18th to the Middle of the 19th Centuries”, in M. Roublev, transl., edited by G. Grause, History of Economic Relations Between Russia and China [Ocherki Ekonomicheskikh Othosnenii SSSR c Kitaem], Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, →OCLC, page 65:

An aluminum reduction plant was inaugurated in November, 1959, at Lanchow in Kansu Province, but its future development is unclear in view of failure to complete the planned low-cost sources of hydroelectric power on the Yellow River.

1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 70:

Lanchow near the source of the Yellow River and just below the Great Walls was described as a congested center of railroad transportation.

1973 September 2, L. Chen, “Another Lin Piao incident?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

By the time they reached Lanchow, the Golden City, the caravan had settled into the formation it would take for the rest of the journey.

2014, Dana Stabenow, Everything Under the Heavens, Portland, Oregon: Gere Donovan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 113:

Encyclopædia Britannica
Postal romanization


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:


Dingxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定西 (Dìngxī).

In 1973 the esteemed and beloved Premier Chou assigned a mumber of leading comrades of departments concerned under the State Council to investigate the drought situation and help solve difficulties in Tinghsi Prefecture.

[1978 November 7 [1978 November 1], “Why Can't the Hsianghsiang Experience Be Implemented in the Chinghui Irrigtion Area?”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 216, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow and Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original by Ho Tung-chung (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Northwest Region, page N 2:

On 3 May Hsü Ta’s army made contact with Kökö Temür’s forces near Tinghsi in Kansu.

[1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “Hung-wu: The Period of Consolidation, 1368-1380”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355-1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:

For instance, in the arid Dingxi region of Gansu, deforestation forced the local population to tear up the sod to use as fuel, thus further reducing the already inadequate carrying capacity of the land and exacerbating the region’s serious poverty.

1999, The China Human Development Report, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:

The quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province toppled brick walls and telephone lines, shattered mud-and-tile-roofed houses, and sent cascades of dirt and rock down hillsides that blocked roads and slowed rescue efforts by crews trying to reach remote areas.[…]
“I saw the bulb hanging from the ceiling start swinging wildly around. I woke my two friends and we ran into the bathroom to hide,” said arts student Li Jingui, 21, who was on the fourth floor of a school dormitory in Dingxi when the shaking started.

2013 July 22, “Earthquake kills scores in northwest”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-07-24, World:


Tianshui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天水 (Tiānshuǐ).

On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.[…]
Finally we arrived in Tianshuei, an old, old city with impressive walls, 25 feet or more in height and at least 20 feet in thickness, surrounding the rectangular city, which runs about 1 to 2 miles north to south and 4 to 5 miles east to west.

[2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:

Smoke was used to make Friday’s drill at Yifu Experimental Middle School in Gansu province more realistic, but the volume generated was too large, said the official Xinhua News Agency. It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.

2015 September 20, “150 students ill in China after breathing in smoke at drill”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

We were still recovering from our Sian getaway, and I was still feeling a bit feverish. So sleep was good. Three hours later, we got off in Tienshui. We were in Kansu province now.

[2016, Bill Porter, “Tienshui”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:

I arrived in Tianshui an hour before sunset. Here was a city of flyover walkways and half-built skyscrapers that ran mile after bleak mile along the dirty waters of the Jie River. Tianshui was once surrounded by high gateways and spectacular city walls, whose lines followed the river. Modern Tianshui has lost those walls: Only the very oldest residents remember they once existed.

2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-11:


Longnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 隴南／陇南 (Lǒngnán).

During the tour Comrade Hu Yaobang inspected the two Tibetan autonomous prefectures -- Garze and Aba -- in Sichuan and over a dozen counties and districts of Longnan Special Prefecture [Long nan zhuan qu 7150 0589 1413 0575] in Gansu.[…]
In Longnan Prefecture [Long nan di qu 7150 0589 0966 0575], people have gone all out to grow trees and grass in recent years, creating a new experience in developing mountainous areas.

1985 October 8, Chaoren Guo, Huang Chang Changlu, “Hu Yaobang Revisits Route of Long March”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 195, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 1:

This form of grassland is mainly located in the mountainous region of Longnan Prefecture, and covers a total area of 12 million mu.

1993, John W. Longworth, Gregory J. Williamson, “Gansu”, in China's Pastoral Region: Sheep and Wool, Minority Nationalities, Rangeland Degradation and Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:

There is the saying, ‘Two heads are better than one’. For example, I talked to over 100 women from different sectors of Longnan Prefecture twice to sensitize them to women’s issues and to build up their confidence. When I was walking down the street, I was often stopped by women who would come up and tell me how much they had changed after they heard my lectures.

1999, Wu Qing, “What I Know about Gender and Development”, in Feminists doing Development: A Practical Critique, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:

Thousands of people rioted this week over a resettlement plan in Longnan, a poverty-stricken region of Gansu Province where 1.8 million people were made homeless by the Sichuan earthquake. Protesters in Wudu, a city in Longnan, attacked officials and the police with iron rods, chains, axes and hoes and threw stones, bricks and flowerpots, according to the local government's report of the incident.

2008 October 20, “The Internet drives China to loosen its grip on the media”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-11, Technology:

In nearby Longnan in the neighboring province of Gansu, also jolted by the quake, eight people died in landslides caused by heavy rain, the People’s Daily said.

2017 August 8, Christian Shepherd, David Stanway, Michael Martina, Faith Hung, Ben Blanchard, “Quake in China's Sichuan kills 19, including tourists; injures 247”, in Michael Perry, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-12, Environment:

The east provinces of Jiangxi and Zhejiang, as well as the northwest city of Longnan, have urged employers to offer the extended weekend so that more people can help to re-energise domestic tourism.

2020 March 26, Charles Bremner, Will Pavia, “Coronavirus: Macron to scrap short working week to ‘win economic war’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-22:

Landslides backed up a river, trapping 48 people on rooftops in Longnan city in the southern part of Gansu province, according to The Paper, an online news portal.

2020 August 18, “People stranded on rooftops by rain, flooding in China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-11, Asia & Pacific:

A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China, formerly a prefecture.


Xiahe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏河 (Xiàhé).

The lamas of Hsiaho County, Kansu Province, welcome the goodwill mission in their famous temple, Labrang Gomba, and hear the government's policy towards national minorities.

[1951 January, Kung-liao Sa, “National Minorities Welcome the Goodwill Mission”, in China Pictorial, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16?:

A new upsurge in farmland development has taken shape in Hsiaho County, Kansu, in the mass movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture.

[1970 November 9 [1970 October 29], “Kansu Farmland Extension”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:

Foreign tourists in the southwestern Gansu province town of Labrang, the seat of Xiahe county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, moved through its streets like phantoms.

2007, Charlene E. Makley, “Introduction”, in The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

The man, Sangye Khar, 33, self-immolated in the mountain town of Sangchu, known as Xiahe in Chinese, home to the Labrang Monastery, one of the most important sites in Tibetan Buddhism and a major tourist attraction.

2014 December 17, Dan Levin, “Tibetan Man Dies After Self-Immolation in Protest of Chinese Rule”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-12-18, Asia Pacific:

A county of Gannan prefecture, Gansu, China.


Gannan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘南 (Gānnán).

IN 1970 a hospital was set up in the Wankatan commune in the Kannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in south Kansu province.

[1976 February, “Peking Doctors Settle in the Grasslands”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:

Some of the worst rioting outside Lhasa took place here in Gannan, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where the worlds of the Tibetans, Chinese and Hui Muslims converge. It is a dry area of herders roaming the plains and white-walled monasteries nestled against brown hillsides. At least 94 people - almost all police officers - were injured here last March, according to official news reports.
The most prominent monastery in eastern Tibet, Labrang, lies in the town of Xiahe, in western Gannan.

2009 March 5, Edward Wong, “50 years after uprising, a clampdown on Tibetans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17, Asia Pacific:

The death toll jumped to 337 late Monday from an earlier figure of 137, Xinhua said, quoting Chen Jianhua, communist party chief of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous prefecture. Another 1,148 others were missing.

2010 August 9, “Landslides death toll mounts to more than 300”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2010-08-11:

Independent reporting in the region is almost impossible because of Beijing’s tight controls. Though foreign journalists can travel to Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, police closely followed a group of Associated Press reporters on a recent trip, preventing them from interviewing most local Tibetans.

2013 October 23, Didi Tang, “Tibetan denies official version of cousin’s death”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-02:

A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Gansu, China.


Wuwei

Now this old-new part of China is having a boom. Building is going on apace in the cities of Wuwei, Changyeh, and Kiuchuan of the Corridor.

1945 June, Walter C. Lowdermilk, “China Fights Erosion with U. S. Aid”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume LXXXVII, number 6, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 663, column 2:

At least 39 people were injured, six of them seriously, in a gasoline bomb explosion at a rural bank branch in a heavily Tibetan area of northwest China’s Gansu Province, a person at the local police station said by telephone, but there were no immediate signs that the attack was politically motivated.
The bomb was detonated during a bank meeting on the fourth floor of the building in Wuwei City, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

2011 May 13, Keith Bradsher, “Bank Bombed in Heavily Tibetan Area of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-05-14, Asia Pacific:

But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.

2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:


Jiayuguan

Translingual: Chiayusaurus

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 嘉峪關／嘉峪关 (Jiāyùguān).

This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province.

[1977, Flavio Conti, “The Great Wall, People's Republic of China”, in Patrick Creagh, transl., Breaking the Confines (The Grand Tour), New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1978, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:

There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.

[1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West, Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:

Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province.

2022 November 29, Keith Bradsher, “China to Launch 3 Astronauts to New Space Station: How to Watch”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-29, Asia Pacific:


Zhangye

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 張掖／张掖 (Zhāngyè).

Rice is grown in the warm and humid climate of the Southern Kansu Highlands and around the oases in the Hohsi Corridor, like Changyi and Kiuchuan, where water is abundant. The rice produced in the Hohsi Corridor is known for its excellent quality.

[1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 196:

Gun was taking photos of the reclining Buddha in Changyeh and had climbed the loft to get closer to the large face.[…]
The reclining Buddha in Kanchow, which was the old name of Changyeh, is famous. The figure is 34.5 meters long and 7.5 meters high.

[1979, Jan Myrdal, “The Reclining Buddha”, in Ann Hening, transl., The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 259:

Maggie Zhang, co-founder of SheTalks, a company in Beijing that organizes events for women, is working out of her parents’ apartment in the northwestern city of Zhangye in Gansu province. She went for the Lunar New Year and said she might stay through March.

2020 February 14, Joe McDonald, Yu Bing, “China’s virus crackdown leaves millions working at home”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-04-14:


Qin'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦安 (Qín'ān).

Likewise, the magistrate of Ch’in-an county in Kansu thought it by no means unreasonable from the fiscal point of view to report in 1535 so disproportionate a population as one of 12,424 males and 6,099 females.

[1959, Ping-ti Ho, “The Nature of Ming Population Data”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page iv, 12:

In 1967, 17 bronzes of the Chin Dynasty¹ (221-207 B.C.) were excavated at Shangyuanchia, Chinan County.

[1972, Hsin-wen Lan, “Finds from Kansu”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 30:

Linwei, eighty li southeast of Qin’an county in Gansu, was the administrative center of Lueyang commandery (Dushi fangyu jiyao 59/2596; Zang 1936:849.1, 1293.1).

1998, “Li Te [李特]”, in Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom [大成], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

Dadiwan Site is located in the gentle hillsides on the south bank of Qingshui River in Qinan County, Tianshui City. The earliest site dates from 7,800 years ago, and the most recent site dates from 4,800 years ago.

[2008, “Northwest China”, in Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263, column 3:

A county of Tianshui, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Yumen

Rich oil has been found in the vicinity of Yumen County north of the Chilien, and a new oil city has been built there.

1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Shensi-Kansu-Chinghai Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 202:

Irrigation systems expanded agriculture, and Yü-men, in the early 1960s, was rapidly growing into a transport and petroleum centre, with refineries, by-product plants, and oil-well machinery plants.

[1964, Joseph Earle Spencer, “YÜ-MEN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 23, →OCLC, page 926B, column 1:

After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.

1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

Yumen is in a high-altitude corner of the poor northwestern province of Gansu. A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base.

2008 April 17, “Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-24, International Business:

A county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China, formerly a county.


Jingyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靖遠／靖远 (Jìngyuǎn).

North-west of Lanzhou, it attains a maximum thickness of 334 m, while in Jingyuan County, Gansu Province, a thickness of 505 m has been reported (Huang et al., 2000).

2013, Andrew S. Goudie, “Aeolian Geomorphology”, in Arid and Semi-arid Geomorphology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 133:


Linxia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨夏／临夏 (Línxià).

Linxia, once known as Hezhou, has been a center of Islam for centuries and now enjoys a climate of religious tolerance.

2006 February 19, Jim Yardley, “China's Muslims, pragmatically, avoid cartoon protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-09, Asia Pacific:

A Hui autonomous prefecture in Gansu, China


Huining

A brief police account of the attack on Tuesday in semirural Huining County, Gansu Province, left many questions unanswered, including the identities of the victims.

2019 February 6, Chris Buckley, “Eight Killed in Knife Attack in China Amid Lunar New Year Celebrations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-06, Asia Pacific:

The case was heard by the Huining county court in northwestern China’s Gansu province at the end of June.[…]
Song met the mother, identified by her surname Jiang, in the spring of 2018 when on the street in Huining county and learned that Jiang was single.

2022 August 15, Alice Yan, “‘God of Online Dating’: catfisher in China ‘dates’ mother and son simultaneously and cons pair out of US$20,800, court hears”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Trending in China:


Pingliang

Three children have died and 35 people have become ill from drinking nitrite-tainted milk in Gansu Province in northwestern China, the Xinhua news agency reported Friday. In the latest food safety scandal to hit the dairy industry, most of the sick children were being treated at two hospitals in Pingliang city, Xinhua said.

2011 April 8, Reuters, “China: Tainted Milk Kills 3 Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-04-12, Asia Pacific:

A man in China's Gansu province has been detained for allegedly using ChatGPT to generate a fake story about a train crash, marking China's first arrest in an AI-related probe as Beijing tightens deepfake technology.
The story, which claimed the crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China's northwestern Gansu, gained more than 15,000 clicks after being published on social media on April 25, Pingliang city's local police bureau reported.

2023 May 10, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “China reports first arrest over fake news generated by ChatGPT”, in Christina Fincher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-10, Disrupted:


Jingchuan

/d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇川／泾川 (Jīngchuān).

To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province.

1986, “Heilongjiang Province [黑龙江省]”, in Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:

Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, which, according to its inscription, contained the cremated remains of the Buddha.[…]
The archaeological team, led by Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology research fellow Hong Wu, is still determining whether the statues were also buried at that time along with the box.

2017 November 15, Kastalia Medrano, “BUDDHA’S REMAINS? CREMATED HUMAN DISCOVERED IN INSCRIBED BOX ALONGSIDE HUNDREDS OF ANCIENT STATUES IN CHINA”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 2017-11-16, TECH & SCIENCE:


Baiyin

Metallic minerals are associated mainly with the copper-mining center of Paiyin, 45 miles northeast of Lanchow. Paiyin was raised to the status of city in 1958, after construction of the Lanchow-Paotow railroad had provided access to the deposit.

[1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Kansu Corridor”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 294:

Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was not unexpected in China, which executes more prisoners than any other.

2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-03-31, Asia Pacific:


Liangzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涼州／凉州 (Liángzhōu).

A district of Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Minqin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民勤 (Mínqín).

A county of Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Bairi

For transcriptome, immunohistochemistry and staining, we selected six healthy white yaks that were ~18 months old from the Bairi Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu, China.

2023 September 19, Xinfeng Liu, Wenyu Liu, Johannes A. Lenstra, Zeyu Zheng, Xiaoyun Wu, Jiao Yang, Bowen Li, Yongzhi Yang, Qiang Qiu, Hongyu Liu, Kexin Li, Chunnian Liang, Xian Guo, Xiaoming Ma, Richard J. Abbott, Minghui Kang, Ping Yan, Jianquan Liu, “Evolutionary origin of genomic structural variations in domestic yaks”, in Nature Communications, volume 14, number 5617 (2023), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-14:

A Tibetan autonomous county in Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.


Gulang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古浪 (Gǔlàng).

Wu Dengfan, a 40-year-old farmer from Gulang county in Gansu who worked at a gold mine close to the Mongolian border from 1996 to 2006, had a similar experience.
“We even preferred not to wear masks inside the mine, because it made breathing even more difficult,” said Wu, who has stage II pneumoconiosis. “When we finished our work and came out of the mine, each of us was completely covered in dust.”

2018 January 13, Alice Yan, “These migrant workers helped China prosper. Now they’re dying and not getting the help they need”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-13, People & Culture:


Guazhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓜州 (Guāzhōu).


Jinta

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金塔 (Jīntǎ).


Xigu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西固 (Xīgù).


Qingyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 慶陽／庆阳 (Qìngyáng).

The privately run school will be closed and a new public school will open at the same location, the Qingyang city government said. The bus, originally a nine-seat van, was carrying 62 children and two adults when it crashed with a truck in Gansu Province on Wednesday.

2011 November 21, “China: Kindergarten Owner Arrested in Bus Crash”, in The New York Times, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-11-22, Section A, page 8: