Yuxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 玉溪 (Yùxī).

This turn to tobacco is not surprising, since Eshan lies smack dab in the center of China’s prime tobacco road country; the Yuxi area has long had a name for good smokes. The Hongta Shan brand cigarette factory in Yuxi City is one of the largest enterprises in all of China, paying fully half of Yunnan’s taxes to the central tax bureau and accounting for 40 percent of the province’s own revenues.

2001, Gregory Eliyu Guldin, What's a Peasant to Do?: Village becoming Town in Southern China, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 61:

For Shu Xiao, 27, a schoolteacher in Yuxi, a city in the southwestern province of Yunnan, group dinners can be discomfiting. Ms. Shu said her family has used serving chopsticks at home since last year, when reports were circulating about a local outbreak of stomach bacteria.

2020 May 25, Amy Qin, “Virus Threatens Chinese Traditions of Chopsticks and Family-Style Meals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-25, Asia Pacific:

According to the Chinese state-run news agency, Xinhua, the herd on Wednesday was in Yuxi, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kunming, a city of 7 million people.

2021 June 2, “Elephant herd wanders toward Chinese city of 7 million”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2021-06-02, Asia:

A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.


Zhoushan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 舟山 (Zhōushān).

The Choushan Archipelago of Chekiang, visited by both the cold and warm currents, is rich in fishes of cold- and warm-water origin which come in search of the nutritious food washed down by the Yangtse and Chientang waters. Choushan is now China’s biggest fishing ground.

[1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], “Seas”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 46:

Because of the presence of the military, unrest at Hanchow factories was put down, but reports of resistance have continued to come from other points of the province, including Ningpo, Choushan, Taichou and Wenchou.

[1975 October 5, L. Chen, “Proletariat against proletarian rule”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVI, number 39, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

The meeting began in a stark, white-tiled lecture hall on the largest island of the Chinese archipelago of Zhoushan, where the East China Sea meets the Yangtze Delta. The sole decoration was a greeting written in English in multicolored chalk on the blackboard: “Welcome Parents and Students.”
It was to be my first parents meeting at Zhoushan’s most elite high school.

2015 October 29, David Metz, “Teaching the Common Core in China [当美国教育方法遇到中国应试制度]”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-11-09, Education Life:

当美国教育方法遇到中国应试制度

Communist forces, in spite of naval and air inferiority, succeeded in overwhelming the Nationalist base on Hainan Island during February-May 1950, the Zhoushan Archipelago during May 1950, and Tatan Island as late as July 1950.

2021, Bruce A. Elleman, Taiwan Straits Standoff: 70 Years of PRC-Taiwan Cross-Strait Tensions, Anthem Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:

A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.


Zhaotong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng).

Military chieftains of three Communist "military regions" (Chengtu, Kunming and Canton) and five provincial “military districts” (Szechwon^([sic – meaning Szechwan]), Tibet, Yunnan, Kweichow and Kwangsi) held a joint conference last September in Chaotung, Yunnan, to discuss measures to be taken against the guerrilla forces.

[1977 November 27, “Guerrilla activities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 47, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

The US Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.1 quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres (6 miles) at around 8:30 a.m. (GMT).
Most of the deaths were in Zhaotong City, the Xinhua state news agency reported.

2014 August 3, “Hundreds dead after quake strikes Yunnan province”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2014-08-03:


Meichuan

AT 10:12, the bus crossed the Yangtze River, and Min jerked awake. She said aloud the name of every town we passed on the highway: Huangshi, Meichuan, Huangmei. “We’re almost there,” she said, her voice tight with excitement.

2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 277:

The unattended boy was found missing when his grandmother returned to their home in Meichuan town in the city of Wuxue after working in the fields, having told the boy an hour before to stay at home and watch television, the ChuTian Metropolis Daily reported.

2016 July 29, Natalie Mu, “Boy, 2, dies of heatstroke in central China mountains while looking for his grandmother”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2022-05-09:

A town in Wuxue, Huanggang, Hubei, China.


Yibin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜賓／宜宾 (Yíbīn).

About six that evening, they motored beneath the Jiang’an Changliang Bridge and into the city of Yibin, known from ancient times as the source of the Yangtze. And so said Yong just as the Great River split into the Jin Sha River to the right and Min River to the left.

2007, Dan Armstrong, chapter 12, in Taming the Dragon (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

Officials in Yibin, a city of 4.5 million, announced last week that they would name their new airport after the blindingly strong Wuliangye.

2012 May 30, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Do You Know the Way to Wuliangye?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-05-31, Letter from China:

After returning from Wuhan, the pair visited supermarkets and other public places in the western city of Yibin in Sichuan province for more than a week before showing symptoms, the People’s Court of Cuping District in Yibin said Saturday on its social media account.

2020 September 5, “China jails 2 for hiding trip to city at center of outbreak”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-06, Asia & Pacific:

A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.


Jiaxing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嘉興／嘉兴 (Jiāxīng).

The city of Jiaxing, south of Shanghai, is offering a vaccine under development by Sinovac, it said in an announcement Thursday.

2020 October 16, Huizhong Wu, “China rapidly expands use of experimental COVID-19 vaccines”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2020-10-21:


Qujing

/t͡ʃuːˈd͡ʒɪŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲靖 (Qūjìng).

The traffic in eggs was enormous, and I found, on inquiry, that they came from the prefectural city of Ch'ü-ching Fu, as a collecting centre, a four and a half days' journey to the north-east of Yunnan Fu, and that the traffic ceased in summer, not owing to the heat, which, one might imagine, would have a tendency to addle the eggs, but to the concomitant of heat and moisture, the mosquito, the female of which pierces the shells with her proboscis and thereby admits the air.

[1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume 1, Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 88:

The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.

[1978 July, Yu-ting Tu, Chen Lu-fan, “Was There a Massive Exodus of Thais?”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:

Although 96% of the city’s population are ethnic Han Chinese, there is a collection of minority peoples also in Qujing. The largest of these are the more-than 16,000 Yi, followed by 11,000 Hui, 3,000 Miao and 1,200 members of the Bai nationality.

2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76, column 1:


Gongqingcheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 共青城 (Gòngqīngchéng, literally “China Youth League City”).

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Hu Yaobang was officially rehabilitated on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth in 2005 and his mausoleum in China Youth League City (Gongqingcheng) in Jiangxi province was spruced up.

2010, Bruce Gilley, “Deng Xiaoping and His Successors (1976 to the present)”, in William A. Joseph, editor, Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:

At Mr. Hu’s grave in Gongqingcheng in Jiangxi province, about a thousand mourners paid their respects Monday morning alone, said a tour guide, Tong Lihong, according to the China News Service.

2013 April 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Cautious Call for Political Reform in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-16:

While there were no official commemorative events for the icon of political reform, whose death sparked the 1989 pro-democracy movement and subsequent military crackdown, the anniversary was marked in a memorial in Gongqingcheng, Jiangxi province.

2019 April 15, Guo Rui, “Communist Party reformer Hu Yaobang remembered in low-key ceremony”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-15, Politics:

A sub-prefectural city in Jiangxi, China, formerly administered by Jiujiang City.


Wuxue

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué).

Heading downriver on leaving Wuhan, the steamer passes through Huangshi in eastern Hubei Province. […]Near the border with Jiangxi on the north bank is the town of Wuxue, noted for the production of bamboo goods.

1994 March, Michael Buckley, Alan Samagalski, Robert Storey, Chris Taylor, Clem Lindenmayer, “Hubei”, in China (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 340:

Meicuan Reservoir, impounded in 1958, is located at Meicuan town, Wuxue City, Hubei Province. It lies north of the midstream section of the Yangtze River (115°30' E and 30°17' N).

1998, Hong-Juan Wu, Yong-Tai Lin, Han-Yun Yang, Yue-Hua Wan, Qin Zhang, “Adapting Integrated Fish Farming Principles to Improve Fish Yields in Meicuan Reservoir, China”, in Jack A. Mathias, Anthony T. Charles, Hu Baotong, editors, Integrated Fish Farming: Proceedings of a Workshop on Integrated Fish Farming held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, October 11-15, 1994, CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 309:

In a scruffy apartment building down a muddy back alley in the provincial town of Wuxue in Hubei Province, one of China's newest industries is taking off.

2006 October 13, Caroline Bailey, “China's full-time computer gamers”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2007-02-05:

After graduating from Hubei University with a specialization in Chinese language and literature, Wu Dingfu, a native of Wuxue City, Hubei Province, worked as a teacher in Wuxue Middle School in Guangji County from 1969 to 1980.

2009, Victoria Chu, “Wu, Dingfu (吴定福 b. 1946)”, in Wenxian Zhang, Ilan Alon, editors, Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders [中国经济风云人物], Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:

China’s agricultural ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in central Hubei province.
The disease was found to have killed six of a combined 147 pigs on two neighboring farms in Wuxue city, the ministry said.

2018 November 12, Dominique Patton, “China confirms African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-11-13, Health News:

A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.


Ya'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雅安 (Yǎ'ān).

Ya'an is a refreshing mixture of Han Chinese tradition and modern Chinese peasant culture, with a dash of Tibetan influence.[...]Near Ya'an a monument once marked the traditional border between China and Tibet. This was an important trading post where Tibetans would exchange furs for guns and bricks of Chinese tea and today it still has the feel of a border town.
The weather in Ya'an is relatively mild, but be prepared for an occasional snowstorm during the winter.

1988, K. Mark Stevens, George E. Wehrfritz, edited by Paddy Booz, Southwest China: Off the Beaten Track, Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:

The west gate tower from the tomb of Gao Yi in Ya’an county, Sichuan, is one of the most famous and best preserved.

2002, Xinian Fu, edited by Nancy S. Steinhardt, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:

The Chinese government said early Sunday that the known death toll was 174, with most of the victims in Ya’an. The ministry also said that about 5,700 people had been injured.

2013 April 20, Jane Perlez, “Surviving China’s Latest Earthquake, but Afraid to Go Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-04-22, Asia Pacific:

The quake struck Lushan county, near the city of Yaan, at 5:00 p.m. (0900 GMT) and was at a depth of 17 kilometers, the state television quoted China Earthquake Networks Center as saying.
The epicenter is 113 kilometres from Sichuan's capital Chengdu.[…]
In 2013, Yaan was hit by strong earthquake, killing more than 100 people and injuring thousands.

2022 June 1, “Strong earthquake hits China's Sichuan province”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-02, China:


Lishui

In a United Press despatch appearing in the Toronto papers about the middle of February it was stated that the Japanese had bombed an airdrome in Lishui, Chekiang, the headquarters of many Canadian Catholic missionaries. Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui.

1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40:

Ji Wenhua was sentenced to death on Monday by Lishui intermediate court in Zhejiang for illegally raising 5.5 billion yuan ($867 million) between 2003 and 2008, the South China Morning Post reported. He was also separately accused of fraud worth some 1.47 billion yuan ($231.6 million).

2011 November 8, James Pomfret, “China property developer sentenced to death-report”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-12:


Quzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衢州 (Qúzhōu).

The two dead girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were friends from the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou, in the prosperous eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.

2013 July 9, “Pilot of crashed Asiana plane still in Boeing 777 training”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2013-07-11:

The Go tournament – a traditional Chinese board game also known as Weiqi – in Quzhou, a city in Zhejiang province, was designed to promote “participation and communication” among the members of China’s 56 designated ethnic minority groups.

2021 June 27, Kristin Huang, “Chinese Hui Muslims trigger storm by wearing traditional dress to event to promote ethnic unity”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-27, Politics:

National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Quzhou


Huzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湖州 (Húzhōu).

Li begged them not to betray him. "If you can find a way of taking me safely to Huchou in Chekiang, I will give you 30,000 taels."

[1914, E. Backhouse, J. O. P. Bland, “Hsien Feng and T’ung Chih: The Facile Descent”, in Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 425:

In the city of Huzhou, in Zhejiang, local officials in December surveying the impact of the trade war found a company called Tianzhen Bamboo Flooring that was laying off workers and trying to open new markets in Europe and Canada.

2019 August 31, Raymond Zhong, Keith Bradsher, “U.S.-China Trade War Hits a New Phase, and a Boot Maker Trembles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-31, Business:


Panzhihua

/ˌpɑːnd͡ʒɪˈhwɑː/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 攀枝花 (Pānzhīhuā).

An earthquake on Saturday about 20 miles southeast of Panzhihua city, near Sichuan province’s border with Yunnan, killed 27 people, damaged or destroyed more than 180,000 homes and affected at least 800,000 residents, state media said on Sunday.

2008 August 31, Edmund Klamann, “China steelmaker Panzhihua checking quake damage”, in Jonathan Hopfner, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-05, Editor's Picks:


Suining

These dear Friends entertained and instructed us by an account of their educational and medical work among the Chinese at Suining Sze-chwan, where it was the good fortune of the writer to spend several days two years ago, when visiting the Missions of English Friends in that distant land.

1917 June 28, “POCONO NOTES”, in The Friend, volume 90, number 53, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 630:

Chen’s lawyer, Zheng Jianwei, said the court in Suining, a city in Sichuan province, found Chen guilty of the charge of “inciting subversion of state power” by writing essays critical of the government.

2011 December 23, Sui-Lee Wee, Chris Buckley, “China dissident jailed for 9 years for "subversive" essays”, in Ron Popeski, Ed Lane, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-19, World News:

On Friday, another writer, Chen Wei, was sentenced by a court in Suining, Sichuan Province, to nine years in prison on the same charge.

2011 December 26, Edward Wong, “China Jails Writer for Subversion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-12-26, ASIA PACIFIC:


Suining

These programs have thus been revised or revoked at times, depending on public reception. For instance, Suining County in Jiangsu Province was one of the first local governments to roll out a grading system for its residents, giving them an A through D mark. It sparked heated debates.

2018 November 29, Bing Song, “The West may be wrong about China’s social credit system”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-01:


Gedangdian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 圪壋店／圪垱店 (Gēdàngdiàn).

At 1.35 p.m., the 529th FS claimed two Ki44s and two more damaged between Wuchih and Kotangtien.

[2017, Håkan Gustavsson, Sino-Japanese Air War 1947-1945: The Longest Struggle, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sino_Japanese_Air_War_1937_1945/9NHyDQAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT219:

The family's hometown Gedangdian Village is a very rich village in Wuzhi County, where many villagers had made a fortune through the cashmere car cushions business in the past few decades.

2021, Yan Xiaoxu, Yang Tingjuan, Wang Jingjing, Du Jing, Guo Silu, “The Generation Born in the 1970s”, in Lu Mai, editor, The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 77:

A town in Wuzhi, Jiaozuo, Henan, China, formerly a township.


Bazhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴中 (Bāzhōng).

China’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday two new African swine fever outbreaks were confirmed in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces.
The new case in the city of Bazhong in Sichuan killed 19 of 117 pigs present on a farm, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.

2018 December 12, “China reports new African swine fever outbreaks in Sichuan, Qinghai provinces”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-12-12, Health News:


Leshan

zh-l

樂山／乐山 (Lèshān)

Actually we would spend the first year or so in the smaller town of Leshan, a hundred miles south of Chengtu, learning the Szechuan dialect and the culture of the local people.

2001, Richard Webster, Seize the Baton, Pasadena, CA: William Carey Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

The outbreak, found in Leshan, Sichuan province, on a truck transporting 111 pigs from other provinces, has killed 7 of the herd, according to a statement published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

2020 March 12, “China finds new African swine fever case in pigs transported to Sichuan province”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, Health:


Liaocheng

Working out of their office in Liaocheng, they visited the villages where they tried to win over local leadership and mobilize the masses.

1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:

Xinfa Group, one of China’s top aluminum producers, will have to close 381,900 tonnes per year of smelting capacity this winter, its home city of Liaocheng confirmed on Friday.
Xinfa must shut 30 percent of its pots in Liaocheng, one of 28 northern Chinese cities ordered to impose restrictions on industrial output this winter to combat smog, from Nov. 15 to March 15, 2018, according to a document published on the Liaocheng government website.
A draft of the document circulating earlier this week contained the same number for the Xinfa cut and Liaocheng has now finalised its restrictions for the heating season.
Xinfa’s smelting capacity in Liaocheng, in the eastern Shandong province, was listed as 1.58 million tonnes per year, although it also has capacity in Xinjiang that will not be subject to winter cutbacks.

2017 October 20, “Chinese city confirms Xinfa aluminum capacity cut”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-12-14, Environment:

A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.


Lincang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨滄／临沧 (Líncāng).

Shelling from neighbouring Myanmar on Thursday wounded five people in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, state media reported on Friday, the latest incidence of cross-border fire that has strained ties between the neighbours.
Shells landed in an area near the small city of Lincang, state media reported on Friday, citing the local propaganda bureau. Four houses and three vehicles were also damaged.

2015 May 15, Megha Rajagopalan, “China says five injured by artillery shells from Myanmar”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-14, World News:

Water and mud burst from the tunnel as work was underway Tuesday evening in the Yunnan province city of Lincang, trapping 13 workers inside.
The news office of the Lincang city government said five were pulled from the rubble, but only one survived and was hospitalized in stable condition.

2019 November 27, “Tunnel collapses in southwest China; 4 dead, 8 missing”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-10-10:


Zigong

/ˌ(d)zɪˈɡɒŋ/

/ˌ(d)zɪˈɡʊŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 自貢／自贡 (Zìgòng).

Peking Radio broadcast about one particular department in the Szechwan city of Tzu-kung illustrated how easily the bureaucrats could influence the soldiers:
There was a close connection between the department and the . . . Tzukung Municipal CCP Committee. Work was carried out by the department under the leadership of the municipal CCP committee.

[1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:

In Tzukung, Szechuan province, extremely thin and soft strips that are almost transparent are cut from love bamboo and used to weave objects with “hidden designs” like those of figured silk. The warp and weft strips must cross at least a thousand times.

[1978 August, Chia-shu Wang, “The Artcraft of Weaving”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3:

More than 800 lanterns handmade in Zigong in China’s Sichuan province will be presented to Auckland, honoring a centuries-long tradition dating from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.) to usher in the new year with light.

2015 February 20, Suri Charu, “A Festival to Celebrate New Zealand-China Ties”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-10, In Transit:

At least 16 people died in a fire at a shopping mall in southern China, state media reported on Wednesday.
The incident occurred at a shopping complex in Zigong, a city in western Sichuan province.

2024 July 17, “China: At least 16 killed in shopping mall fire”, in Deutsche Welle, sourced from zc/rm (AFP, Reuters), archived from the original on 2024-07-18, Catastrophe/China:


Meishan

SU SHIH (Chinese, 1036-1101), better known as Su Tung-p'o, an almost universal genius and a great favorite with the Chinese literary public, was a native of Meishan, Szechuan Province.

1946, Joseph T. Shipley, editor, Encyclopedia of Literature, volume 2, Ferris Printing Company, →OCLC, page 1171:

About ten kilometers east of today’s district town, we find a ridge of hills that forms a natural borderline with neighboring Meishan 眉山 County, once home to the famous Song dynasty poet Su Dongpo 蘇東坡 (1037-1101).

2005, Volker Olles, Scriptures, Schools, and Forms of Practice in Daoism, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:

Police in Meishan City in the southwestern province of Sichuan said the suspects set up hundreds of shell companies and 28 fake industrial chains and lured investors with promises of high returns, it added.

2018 July 25, Se Young Lee, “Chinese police break up $1.5-billion pyramid scheme, snare 82 suspects”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-09, Emerging Markets:


Weihai

At Weihai the Chinese have an excellent position for an arsenal and docks. The harbor is good, and at the rear are all the resources of the province of Shantung.

1888, “Bibliographic Notes”, in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, volume XIV, number 1, Annapolis, Md.: United States Naval Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 279:

The Women's World Cup began on Sunday behind closed doors in the eastern coastal city of Weihai with 21 players from across the globe taking part over three days. It will be followed by two other International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) events in mainland China.

2020 November 9, “Nerves and serves: International table tennis back after 238 days”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2020-11-09:


Guang'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣安／广安 (Guǎng'ān).

A native of Kuangan, Szechwan, Yang Sen was born into a scholarly family of landowners.

[1971, “Yang Sen [楊森]”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

TENG HSIAO-PING was born in Hsieh-hsing village, Kuang-an county, some 100 km. from Chungking, Szechwan province in 1904.

[1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 3:

They lived in Paifang, a village a few miles from Guang'an, a county town - seat of an imperial magistrate - in the eastern part of the province.

1993, Richard Evans, “Farmer's Son, 1904-20”, in Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China, Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:

At the time, a report from Xinhua, the official press agency, confirmed that a dispute over medical fees had arisen at the hospital in Guangan city in Sichuan Province.[…]
The authorities in Guangan said that the boy had died of poisoning after drinking pesticide and not because of a lack of treatment.

[2007 August 13, “China sentences 11 who protested boy's death at hospital”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-16, Asia Pacific:

Guangan city, also in Sichuan, faced the most severe floods since 1847, the official Xinhua agency said.

[2010 July 20, “China floods claim more lives”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-29, World News:


Wuzhi

/ˌwuːˈd͡ʒiː/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武陟 (Wǔzhì).

Li Yumei apprenticed for the post of governor-general of the Henan conservancy by serving in a wide range of bureaucratic positions in the Yellow River region. A bagong of 1801, his first appointment was as magistrate of Wuzhi County in Henan. The remainder of his career was spent almost entirely along the river in Henan and Shandong, a fact that gave Li familiarity with both the gentry and the geography of the region.

2001, Randall A. Dodgen, “Confucian Engineers”, in Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in the Late Imperial China (Chinese history), Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:

In Wuzhi County in Henan Province, the supply and marketing cooperatives purchased fallen apples in time for processing. As a result, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of apples did not go to waste, and there are many other examples.

2002, Du Runsheng, Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Du Runsheng (Chinese Studies / Economics), Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:


Dazhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 達州／达州 (Dázhōu).

達州／达州 (Dázhōu)

In the direction of Shaanxi, a high-grade road will be built between Sichuan's Dazhou City and Wanyuan City (close to Shaanxi).

2001, 邓天梅 [Deng Tianmei], 四川 [Sìchuān, Sichuan] (中国西部开发丛书 [Introduction to West China Series]), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 132:

Dazhou, Sichuan, has for years been showing the stress of popular anger against its mining industries, prostitu- tion rings, drug problems and a poorly managed outbreak of avian flu.

2010, Pamela Kyle Crossley, The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: An Interpretive History, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:

A passenger bus collided with a truck and plunged into a riverbed in southwest China, killing 16 people including 11 students, authorities said.
The accident happened on Sunday afternoon in a village in Dazhou city in Sichuan province.

2013 September 15, “China road accident kills 16 including 11 students”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-09:

Dazhou, a city in southwestern Sichuan Province, received close to 100 filings for divorce in less than three weeks, an official who handled divorce filings said in a video interview, adding that there was a large backlog of cases.

2020 March 27, Dan Bilefsky, Ceylan Yeginsu, “Of ‘Covidivorces’ and ‘Coronababies’: Life During a Lockdown”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-27, Protests in China:


Jiaozuo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò).

Work on the new railroad that thrust its way up onto the Shangtang: Plateau from the old railhead at the huge coalmine of Chiaotso in the Yellow River Valley went on for three years.

[1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:

Luttrell gave up missionary work in 1924 to become a welfare officer with the Peking Syndicate’s coal mine at Chiaotso in North Honan.⁴
As a missionary, Luttrell had been stattoned at Chiaotso and got to know the British managers and engineers who were in charge of operations there.

[1987, Peter Stursberg, “Dragon Bones”, in The Golden Hope: Christians in China, Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:

Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.

2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2016-04-05:

A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.


Shuozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 朔州 (Shuòzhōu).

In northernmost Shansi, Chang had pressed deeply inside the ancient Great Wall, taking first Ta-t’ung and then Shuochou. On May 8, Yen was finally able to mount a counteroffensive, which retook Shuochou and pushed Chang's Ankuochün back out of northern Shansi.

[1976, Donald A. Jordan, “The Peking Campaign: Completion of the Military Unification”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 162–163:

The blast occurred Saturday at the Xishui Colliery in Shuozhou, a major coal mining area in Shanxi province.

2005 March 21, “WORLD IN BRIEF”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-22:

All seven cities saw an increase in air pollution during January-May. Readings assessed showed an average concentration of hazardous airborne particles - known as PM2.5 - up by as much as 14.8% in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and by 16.3% in Shuozhou.

2019 June 20, David Stanway, “China coal hub Shanxi slams seven cities for pollution spike in 2019”, in Sherry Jacob-Phillips, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-06-21, Environment:

A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.


Neijiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 內江／内江 (Nèijiāng).

Duan Fang took with him a contingent of the new army of Hubei, but they had established connections with members of the Revolutionary League at Wanxian and Neijiang, staged an uprising at Zizhou and killed Duan Fang. Following this, members of the Revolutionary League staged an uprising at Neijiang and other counties. By this time a part of the new army of Sichuan had also launched an uprising in the vicinity of Chengdu and had begun to march to Chongqing.

1981, Yuzhang Wu, Recollections of the Revolution of 1911: A Great Democratic Revolution of China, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 25–26:

As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.

2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-30, Health:


Deyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 德陽／德阳 (Déyáng).

The lawsuit was filed on Dec. 1 in a court here in the city of Deyang, in Sichuan Province, the region hit hardest by the May 12 earthquake, which left 88,000 people dead or missing.

2008 December 22, Edward Wong, “Parents of Schoolchildren Killed in China Quake Confirm Lawsuit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-11-17, Asia Pacific:

Three employees of China National Erzhong Group Co. in the southwestern city of Deyang said workers started taking to the streets Monday with banners protesting against corrupt and incompetent managers. They blamed management for Erzhong’s losses and poor treatment of employees.

2015 May 13, Didi Tang, “Chinese workers at state-owned machinery plant protest”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-08:


Guangyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣元／广元 (Guǎngyuán).

The People’s Republic began its campaign to separate the Chinese church from Rome on November 30, 1950. The national Catholic Three Self Movement started in Kuangyuan, a town of northern Szechwan.

[1980, Eric O. Hanson, “Confrontation at the National Level: Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Catholic Church, 1949-1962”, in Catholic Politics in China and Korea (American Society of Missiology Series), Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province.

2008 May 16, William J. Broad, “Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-12-11, Asia Pacific:

State television quoted an earthquake relief official in the city of Guangyuan, north of the provincial capital Chengdu, as saying the aftershock caused at least one death and 262 injuries in that city.
The official, Wang Fei, also said several thousand homes in Guangyuan were believed destroyed by the aftershock, but he noted that many were already badly damaged.

2008 May 25, “Deadly aftershock jolts China”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2024-05-24:


Baoshan

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保山 (Bǎoshān).


Baoshan

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶山／宝山 (Bǎoshān, literally “Treasure Hill”), named for an artificial hill raised around 1412 by Chen Xuan to host signal fires.

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The accused arrived at the Baoshan District Court in Shanghai in the morning and a tribunal officer told AFP that a verdict may be issued later on Monday, but it was up to the judge.

2017 June 26, “Australia's Crown Resorts staff face trial in China”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2017-06-26:

The Times found and analyzed three different angles of videos capturing a demonstration in late March in a community called Datang Huayuan, in Shanghai’s Baoshan District. In one video, a large group of people gathered outside. “We want supplies!” one woman yelled into a bullhorn. “We want to survive!” Videos of the incident have since been taken down from Weibo, the popular Twitter-like platform.

2022 April 29, Agnes Chang, Amy Qin, Isabelle Qian, Amy Chang Chien, “Under Lockdown in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-04-29:


Tai'an

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

Chinese police have uncovered the country’s largest alleged on-line pyramid selling scheme, involving 170,000 people and 1.36 billion yuan ($180 million), state media said on Friday.
Authorities in Tai’an city, in the eastern Shandong province, uncovered the scheme named “Swiss Mutual Fund” in May, which was found to be illegal after investigation, xinhua said.[…]
The uncovered scheme in Tai’an is just part of China’s campaign against pyramid selling from July 16 to August 15 this year, xinhua said.

2007 August 31, “Police uncover China's largest online pyramid scam”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-09-30, Internet News:

Our medical college lay nestled beneath the famed Taishan (pronounced Tie-shawn), or Mount Tai, the foremost of China’s five sacred mountains and the pride of the city of Tai’an, even all of Shandong province. We lived on the university’s old campus at the foot of Mount Tai, just at the edge of downtown Tai’an.

2012, Aminta Arrington, “Gate”, in Home is a Roof over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China, New York: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 17–18:

泰安

prefecture-level city in China; village in western China

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


Luzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潞州.


Luzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瀘州／泸州 (Lúzhōu).

Luzhou 泸州
Luzhou, 143 kilometers east of Yibin, sits at the confluence of the Yangzi and the Tuo Jiang rivers. The main attraction in Lushan is Yunfeng Si (Cloud Peak Temple), (云峰寺) which is said to be large and beautiful. Luzhou is accessible by bus from Yibin and by boat from both Yibin and Chongqing.

1988, K. Mark Stevens, George E. Wehrfritz, edited by Paddy Booz, Southwest China: Off the Beaten Track, Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:


Mianyang

The state Xinhua news agency said Tan Li, Communist Party chief of Mianyang in the quake zone, ordered 1.3 million people downstream from Tangjiashan to “evacuate to higher ground”.
But Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official who is a spokesman for the lake relief effort, told Reuters that report was “mistaken”.

2008 May 29, Tyra Dempster, “Chinese battle quake lake amid official confusion”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-08, World News:


Mianyang

(historical) A county of Hubei, China; present-day Xiantao.


Ziyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資陽／资阳 (Zīyáng).

An official at the health bureau of the Sichuan Province city of Ziyang, one of the places where the disease was found, discounted reports that it could be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but he declined to elaborate.[…]
As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.

2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times, sourced from BEIJING, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-30, Health:


Ziyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紫陽／紫阳 (Zǐyáng).

When Tzuyang county in the Tapa Mountains in Shensi province was launching a movement to build irrigation works, the county's art troupe was visiting the Lienho commune. When they saw how hard the commune members worked to dig tunnels through the mountains to bring water from the Pan River for irrigation, and the backbreaking labor necessary to build terraced fields, the troupe members were deeply moved.

[1975 November, “Shoulder-pole Art Troupes”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3:

The Se content of liver in Ziyang County, Shaanxi Province, was significantly high, with a mean level of 3.30 = 1.21 ppm (dry matter), and serious Se intoxication in animals and human beings has occurred.

1987, Xu-Jiu Zhai, Yao-Hua Cheng, Yu-Wen Wang, Xiao-Fen Yan, Yun Cai, Zhi-Ming Qi, Tai Gao, “Selenium Contents of Swine Liver in China”, in Gerald F. Combs, Jr., Orville A. Levander, Julian E. Spallholz, James E. Oldfield, editors, Selenium in Biology and Medicine: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine, Held in Beijing, May 27-June 1, 1984, volume B, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 832:

As just one examples, on the other side of China a parallel occurrence is recorded in the gazetteer published by Ziyang county in Shaanxi Province (Xian: Sangin Chubanshe, pp. 521-26): During the nationwide wave of “power seizures” in early 1967, two antagonistic factions had emerged in the county capital—“Eryipai,” to which the preponderance of teachers and secondary-school students belonged, and “Erliupai,” based more heavily on cadres, peasants and workers. In 1968 the factional fighting in the county escalated, and in April military and police ammunition was seized by the two factions. Members of the weaker Eryipai soon thereafter fled the county and joined their allies in neighboring counties. Amid rear-guard armed fighting, many of the adherents of Eryipai who remained behind were rounded up, along with their families and members of the “bad classes.” Over 400 were tortured and then murdered, including 211 labeled as “bad- class.” By the end of 1968 a PLA unit entered the county to end the bloodshed.

2002, Jonathan Unger, The Transformation of Rural China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70:

Wei was elected to the NPC by the Shaanxi PPC, and to the Shaanxi PPC by the Ziyang County PC through indirect elections.

2008, Ming Xia, The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 233:

A subdistrict of Wuchang district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.


Zhucheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邾城 (Zhūchéng).

A subdistrict of Xinzhou district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.


Zhucheng

Translingual: Zhuchengceratops, Zhuchengtitan, Zhuchengtyrannus

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 諸城／诸城 (Zhūchéng).

Consolidation of land took off around Zhucheng, a thriving town in Shandong Province, in 2007.

2011 April 25, Alan Wheatley, “A Worry for Beijing That Goes Beyond Cities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-04-27, Inside Asia:

A county-level city in Weifang, Shandong, China.


Jiujiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng).

The Yangtze divides Jiujiang in Jiangxi province and Huanggang in neighbouring Hubei, one of the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off from the rest of China to try to contain it.

2020 January 31, Martin Pollard, Thomas Peter, David Stanway, “Travellers beat China virus lockdown via bridge over the Yangtze”, in Stephen Coates, Mike Collett-White, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-02-02, WORLD NEWS:

A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.

A town in Nanhai district, Foshan, Guangdong, China.


Zoucheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄒城／邹城 (Zōuchéng).

In addition, silk fabrics found in the tomb of a local scholar by the name of Li Yu’an in Zoucheng County, Shandong Province, date back to 1231.

2002, 韦黎明 [Wei Liming], 中国的丝绸 [The Land of Silk], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:

In November 2003, thousands of people in Zoucheng, Shandong province, stormed a government building, smashing windows and office equipment, after a sidewalk vendor was accidentally run over when city officials tried to enforce a new policy against such sales.

2006, David J. Lynch, “Discontent in China Boils into Public Protest”, in China (Global Studies), 11th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

The link between man and nature that Mencius made is as valid today as it was more than 2,000 years ago. His home town, a place called Zoucheng in a corner of Shandong province, wears the strain of population upon its sleeve.

2006, James Kynge, China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation, Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 149:

Tsou 騶 is written as 芻 in Han shu, 52.2394. The county of Tsou was about ten miles southeast of modern Tsou-ch'eng 鄒城 county in Shantung.

[2011, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX: The Memoirs of Han China, volume II, published 2019, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page https://books.google.com/books?id=sG6rDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT148:

In a notice reviewed by Reuters, the environmental regulator of Zoucheng city in Shandong, a province known for both its farming and industrial facilities, ordered at least 30 companies to either cut output by 60 percent or shut completely.

2016 December 20, Meng Meng, Josephine Mason, Muyu Xu, Josephine Mason, “City in China's Shandong province orders coal power plants to cut output due to smog -notice”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-10:

In contrast to the official “rites devoid of ritual spirit” (223), during the top-down initiatives celebrating Confucius’s 2,558th birthday in 2007, ritual ceremonies organized by grassroots Confucian activists at the Confucius temple in Nishan and the Mencius temple in Zoucheng a few days after the official festival testified to the existence of a true ritual community, rediscovering or reinventing Confucian rituals, mostly through ancient texts. The authors believe that it is the emergence of this new ritualism among the people that will pave the way for a ritual reconstruction of Confucianism.

2017 July, “The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China”, in The Journal of Religion, volume 97, number 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 419:

A county-level city in Jining, Shandong, China.


Jingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 京山 (Jīngshān).

A group of bronzes of the late Western Chou were uncovered in Chingshan County, Hupeh Province, and 25 pieces of stone ching (musical chimes) with a painted design of the State of Chu were found in Chiangling County of the same province.

[1971, “Historical Relic Unearthed During the Cultural Revolution”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:

Given intercropping, says a writer on Chingshan county in Hupei, the natural combined growing season of more than 500 days for a rapeseed-rice-cotton sequence can be compressed into the year.

[1979 May, Frank Leeming, “Progress Towards Triple-Cropping in China”, in Asian Survey, volume XIX, number 5, University of California Press, page 464:

Local farmer Yang Shizhi displays her dead chickens, which were killed by floods, at Jingshan county in central China's Hubei province July 14, 2007.

2007 July 16, “China warns of more flood misery”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:


Yonglong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永漋 (Yǒnglóng).

A town in Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Songzi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 松滋 (Sōngzī).

Songzi, located on Jianghan Plain in southwest Hubei province on the southern side of the Yangtze River, had a population of 896,800 at the end of 1999. Songzi is a relatively well-developed agricultural county with fertile land that has produced the famous “Babao Cotton” for hundreds of years.

2005, Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:

Leonhard and another American took an eerie four-hour drive from Songzi City to Wuhan airport to get out. For hours they were the only car on the freeway, she said, with trucks taking supplies to the idled city.

2020 February 6, Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield, William Wan, “For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of quarantine”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-06, Health:

A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.


Xianning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸寧／咸甯／咸宁 (Xiánníng).

In Hupeh province, the peasants of Tungcheng (in southern Hupeh) began to revolt at the end of August and the uprising spread to Tungshan and Chungyang counties. Later, these peasants joined forces with the peasants of Puchi and Hsienning and bribed with huge amounts of money the bandits under Chang Chao-feng’s command to cut off, on September 9, the Wuchang-Changsha Railway for more than 10 days and attack Hsienning city.

[1978 April, “A Series of Chaos and Uprisings”, in China's Struggle with Red Peril, World Anti-Communist League, China Chapter, →OCLC, pages 96–97:

With the 6th Infantry Division remaining north of the river, the 11th Army deployed two of its four infantry divisions to guard the open flank to the south while it advanced on a double front, securing Wuchang and Hanyang on 26 October and Sienning on 31 October.

[1989, H. P. Willmott, “A New World and a New War”, in The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30–31:

“I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train in Hubei’s Xianning city.
The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business.

2020 March 24, Brenda Goh, “Locked-down no longer, China's Hubei begins return to normal”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-04-28, World News:

A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.


Dunhuang

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

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


Anlu

From the Postal Map romanization of the Mandarin 安陸／安陆 (Ānlù).

In Hupeh District it is at work in fifteen counties :[...]Anlu,[...]So far as the foreign staff is concerned there were no men added in 1915 and only three ladies: Miss Weaver for evangelistic work in Wuchang, Miss Stephenson for the Anlu Hospital, and Miss McCord for evangelistic work at Anlu.

1916, George A. Clayton, “Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (1852)”, in China Mission Year Book 1916, volume 7th, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 119:

Chu conferred with Hsü Ta and Ch’ang Yü-ch’un at Nanking on 23 April. The only ex-Han territories still free from Ming control were the cities of the Han River valley, of which Hsiangyang and Anlu were the most important.

1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352-1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355-1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:

On 16 February Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang ordered General Deng Yu to take the troops in Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei Province) and Anlu (now Anlu, Hubei Province) northward to conquer Henan Province.

2016, Hing Ming Hung, “Zhu Yuan Zhang Founds The Ming Dynasty”, in From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang, New York: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:

Workers work at the construction site of a makeshift hospital in Anlu city, which is under the administration of Xiaogan city, in Central China's Hubei province, Feb 11, 2020.

2020 February 12, “Xiaogan makeshift hospital under construction”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 2022-06-27:

A county-level city in Xiaogan, Hubei, China.


Shishou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石首 (Shíshǒu).

They strafed Shihshou and along the eastern shore of the great Tungting Lake.

[1980, Wanda Cornelius, Thayne Short, “The Twenty-third Fighter Group: November-December 1943”, in Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 377:

Last month, tens of thousands of residents of Shishou, in Hubei Province, clashed with riot police officers over the mysterious death of a hotel chef.

2009 July 17, Edward Wong, “Chinese Question Police Absence in Ethnic Riots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-23, Asia Pacific:


Huilong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 回龍／回龙 (Huílóng).

zh-l

回龍／回龙 (Huílóng)

An official report from General Chan King-ming's headquarters at Ping Shan says that the enemy has been defeated all along the front from Hui Lung to Ku Ling, and that 1,200 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition have been seized.

1924 May 7, “RAILWAY FIGHTING.”, in The Hongkong Telegraph, number 12,478, →OCLC, page 1, column 3:

100. NFRB, Feb. 24, 1980, states that the elections for brigade cadres in Huilong commune, Gaoyao County, held in Oct. 1979 were only the second time that these leaders had been democratically elected. Previously brigade cadres were all appointed by upper levels. Although sometimes “elections” were held, they were little more than formalities.

1988, John P. Burns, Political Participation in Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:

A town in Gaoyao district, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.

A town in Hanchuan, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

A township in Fang, Shiyan, Hubei, China.

A village in Huilong, Hanchuan, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

A village in Zhonglu, Lichuan, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.


Hanchuan

Hanchuan is a good example of an outstation in the China Mission. This town is in the central point of a large country district. Around it have gradually been opened preaching points in several villages. In Hanchuan a native clergyman resides, while in the more important neighboring village catechists are stationed.

1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China, New York: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 207:

The Chinese press has reported the creation of a girls’ association opposed to traditional Chinese marriage customs in Hupeh Province, thus indirectly pointing to the persistence of the old traditions in rural areas.
A group of 114 unmarried girls from the Jenho Commune in the Hanchuan District of the province, in central China, joined the association, telling suitors they would reject engagement and marriage presents.

1974 January 20, “Chinese Girls Oppose Presents for Weddings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-19, page 8:

In Hanchuan, in Hubei province, patients sat in their cars to receive IV fluids through vehicle windows, footage on Dec. 14 obtained by Reuters showed.

2022 December 23, Farah Master, David Stanway, Siyi Liu, Eduardo Baptista, Albee Zhang, Brenda Goh, Julie Zhu, Selena Li, Stella Qiu, Rocky Swift, Hyunsu Yim, Xinghui Kok, “China lacked a 'zero COVID' exit plan. Its people are paying the price.”, in David Crawshaw, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-12-23, China:


Shayang

From the postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 沙洋 (Shāyáng).

But the greatest catastrophe has befallen the neighborhood of Shayang, about 110 miles higher up the river.

1910 November 11, “Flood Disaster in the Han Valley”, in Victoria Daily Colonist, volume CIII, number 289, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, page 14:

Sha-yang is in the centre of Hupeh and; 120 miles west of Hankow, and has a population of about 60,000.

[1911 March 4, “Trampled to Death in Rush for Food”, in New York Times, volume LX, number 19,397, page 4:

An official newspaper in Hubei reported 230 cases at the Wuhan Women's Prison, whose warden was dismissed, and 41 others at another penitentiary in Shayang county.

2020 February 21, “China reports uptick in new coronavirus cases, South Korea infections spike”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2020-02-21:

A town in Shayang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Dongsheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東勝／东胜 (Dōngshèng).

Most villages subscribe to local newspapers, but when they arrive their contents are no longer news; it takes seven days to deliver newspaper from the League centre, Dongsheng, and more than 20 days for newspapers to arrive from outside the area.

1999, Hong Jiang, “Human driving forces of environmental change”, in The Ordos Plateau of China: An Endangered Environment, United Nations University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:

In empty showrooms of Dongsheng, Ordos' old city, saleswomen immediately offer 30 percent price discounts if a buyer is willing to pay for a property upfront and in cash.

2011 December 2, Lucy Hornby, Langi Chiang, “China's Ordos property bust offers warning sign”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-06-05, World:

In 2006, the headquarters of the local government was moved to Kangbashi from the Dongsheng District, 20 miles north; bus service between Kangbashi and Dongsheng was allegedly cut off so that Ordos’s public officials would be forced to take up residence in the new town.

2015 March 6, Jody Rosen, “The Colossal Strangeness of China’s Most Excellent Tourist City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-17:

A district of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.


Dongsheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東升 (Dōngshēng).

A town in Shishou, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

A village in Dongsheng, Shishou, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.


Honghu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪湖 (Hónghú).

At Honghu
At Honghu, it was a pleasure to meet the same county leader who came around with me here in 1963.

1981, Eastern Horizon, volume 20, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:


Wanquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬全／万全 (Wànquán).

According to the paintings, the tomb’s owner had been an unimportant official attending the emperor; previously, he had been a Duwei (officer in charge of a prefecture’s troops), Changshi (assistant prefect) and magistrate. His highest rank was Shishijie Huwuhuan Xiaowei (an official in charge of the affairs of Wuhuan, Xianbei and other nationalities living along the Great Wall). His office was situated in Ningcheng, or today’s Wanquan County, Hebei Province.

1997, Wenyuan Liu, “Cultural Relics of Great Wall”, in Tales of the Great Wall [长城的故事], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

In his surveys of northern Hebei, Willem Grootaers found an average of 6.8 temples per village in Wanquan County and 4.5 per village in neighboring Xuanhua.

2005, Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

Gujiagou is a small hamlet in Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. Hao, born in the village in 1981, lived there until he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 2001.

2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “Sexual struggle in the countryside”, in Beijing Today, number 543, →OCLC, page 19:

A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.


Yingshan

From the Postal Map romanization of the Mandarin 英山 (Yīngshān).

Extending their gains in a May offensive against Chinese troops. in the hilly “regions of north-eastern Hupeh, Japanese forces yesterday made a surprise attack on a Chinese base at the foot of a mountain north-west of Yingshan and captured it after a brief clash.

1939 May 10, “Fighting Round Yingshan”, in North-China Herald, volume CCXI, number 3744, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 228:

In the northern part of the province, Changshengkwan and Huayuan, north of Hankow, were recaptured by the Chinese, followed by the defeat of the Japanese near Yingshan and the Chinese attack on Macheng.
[...]The invaders' base at Sinyang received reinforcements from Yingshan, north Hupeh, but that failed to prevent the fall of Changtaikwan, and Sinyang itself from being twice raided by the Chinese.

1940 January, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 1 (381), page 22:

In Yingshan county, Hubei, two poor men were hung from a tree after they were found stealing millet.

2011, Frank Dikötter, “On the Sly”, in Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 214:

There is no word on when schools, which have been teaching online and through social media, might reopen in Hubei.
“We still feel it is not the right time to resume classes,” said Li Zhen, a teacher at the Yingshan County Experimental School in Huanggang.

2020 March 25, Joe McDonald, Yu Bing, Mari Yamaguchi, “China lifting last controls in province at outbreak’s center”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2020-11-27:


Jiangling

/ˈd͡ʒɑŋˌlɪŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江陵 (Jiānglíng).

The three were given jail sentences ranging from one and a half to 3 years for selling bogus vaccine that lead to the death of more than 500 pigs and losses of 328,250 yuan ($44,280) for a company in Jiangling county, in central Hubei province,[…]reported, citing a court official.
Police in Jiangling had also charged a local vaccine inspection official with "dereliction of duty" for his involvement in the case, the paper added.

2007 November 9, “China jails 3 for selling fake pig disease vaccine”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-17, Latest Crisis:


Shangchen

The new finds imply that hominins covered vast distances before 2 million years ago — Shangchen is 14,000 kilometres from the nearest sites in East Africa where other hominins of this age have been found. It’s possible that the Shangchen toolmakers, hunter-gatherers, were simply following their foods, says Vivek Venkataraman, an evolutionary ecologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2018 July 11, Colin Barras, “Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa”, in Nature, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-19:

According to the most recent reports, the earliest evidence of hominins in Asia is in the Shangchen site in Lantian in the northern Qinling Mountains with, and the age range is 2.12—1.26 Ma (Zhu et al., 2018).

2018 October 15, Xuefeng Sun, Huayu Lu, Shejiang Wang, Xinghua Xu, Qingxuan Zeng, Xuehe Lu, Chengqiu Lu, Wenchao Zhang, Xiaojian Zhang, Robin Dennell, “Hominin distribution in glacial-interglacial environmental changes in the Qinling Mountains range, central China”, in Quaternary Science Reviews, volume 198, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48:

At the same time, the earliest hominin evidence outside Africa came from our newly found 2.12-million-year old^([sic – meaning year-old]) stone tools, which were found at Shangchen, a paleolithic locality, in Lantian County in the southern margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau.

2019 August 29, Zhaoyu Zhu, Weiwen Huang, Yi Wu, Shifan Qiu, Zhiguo Rao, Shixia Yang, Yamei Hou, Jiubing Xie, Jiangwei Han, Shuqing Fu, Tingping Ouyang, Houyun Zhou, Shasha Peng, Robin Dennell, “New progress in the geochronology of hominin relics in loess strata of the Chinese Loess Plateau”, in Chinese Science Bulletin, volume 64, number 25, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A village in Yushan, Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.


Lantian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藍田／蓝田 (Lántián).

The Homo erectus cranium, mandible and hundreds of associated lithic artifacts found in Lantian (central China) in the 1960s demonstrate that the area was important for hominin habitation during the early to middle Pleistocene.

20 April 2017, Haixin Zhuo et al., “Lower Palaeolithic stone tools have been found in Lantian County, China”, in Quaternary Research, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-15:


Lantian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嵐天／岚天 (Lántiān).

A township in Chengkou, Chongqing, China.


Yushan

In order to compel him to give up Yenping and retreat to Chekiang, Chiang sent a division from Yushan in Kiangsi to advance into the border of Chekiang.

1937, Hollington K. Tong, Chiang Kai-shek: Soldier And Statesman, volume 1, London: Hurst & Blackett, →OCLC, page 120:

玉山

mythological mountain; highest mountain in Taiwan; county in eastern China; town in western China

A town in Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.


Yushan

A town in Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.


Jianli

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 監利／监利.

Kingcheu commands over thirteen Cities, as Kingcheu, Cunggan, Xexeu, Kienli, Sungki, Chikiang, Iling, Changyang, Itu, Juengan, Quei, Hingxan, Patung.

[1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

Out of the gorges, the river meanders on flat lands in the Middle Yangtse Plain, forming many bow-shaped lakes, particularly near Chienli County, Hupeh.

[1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 116:

Reds control the area bounded by Tsaoshih, Chujushan, Pailochi, Kienli, and Tienmen, with the Soviet located somewhere in Kienli hsien (in the region of Choulaotsui, or Chuho?). The designation of this organization is: "Kienli Hsien Soviet Government (監利縣蘇維埃政府)", with control residing in a presidium.

[1968, O. Edmund Clubb, Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

Chien-li hsien was also a fertile area for chen since it was located by the Yangtze river in an area crossed by numerous rivers and contained a population of 883,000.

[1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:

Beijing estimates that 9.7 million more farmers will be forced to leave the land after accession, but others think that the real number will be four times that. In Huangqiao, a town in Jianli County of central Hubei Province, about 90 percent of the peasants have abandoned their homes and fields. Some have even abandoned their lives; suicides are on the rise, and a whole family drowned themselves in despair.
“I have met old people who held my hands and told me tearfully that they preferred to die early,” wrote a township Party secretary, Li Changping, “and I have seen the sad sight of children kneeling before me saying they want to attend school.” In Li’s Qipan, also in Jianli County, society is failing because of the decline of agriculture.

2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201:

In Jianli County in Hubei Province, where the ship capsized, the authorities have begun lining up special coffins, decorated with flowers, in anticipation of the huge numbers of bodies that are expected to be found in the days ahead.[…]
The confirmed death toll increased to 77 on Thursday, CCTV said, and about 1,200 family members have arrived in Jianli, officials said.
More than 1,100 responders and 100 boats were participating in rescue efforts, the Jianli county chief, Huang Zhen, told reporters at a news conference on Thursday.

2015 June 4, David Barboza, “Relatives of Yangtze Ship Passengers Seek Answers Amid Search for Survivors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-04, Asia Pacific:


Zhaoji

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 趙集／赵集 (Zhàojí).

A village in Wulipu, Shayang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Wulipu

From Mandarin 五里鋪 (Wǔlǐpù, literally “five Li relay station for post horses”).

Zuozhong Chu tombs are located in Wulipu town, 45 km south of Jingmen City, Hubei province.

2009 January 14, “Excavation Report on Zuozhong Chu Tombs in Jingmen”, in The Institute of Archaeology CASS, archived from the original on 2022-02-05:

At midnight on March 1st, Liu, a bee farmer born in Hubei, and her family finally arrived in the hometown, Wulipu Town, with over 500 boxes of honey.[...]Although the driver is Hubei native, the authority of Wulipu Town insists that only when the driver obtains an effective health certificate can he leave.

2020 March 6, Yanqing Wang, “第一户湖北籍蜂农已顺利返乡，其他近200户有望近期全部返回 绿会复工部 [The First Beekeeper from Hubei Province Has Returned Without a Hitch, And Nearly 200 Others Are Expected to Return Soon CBCGDF Anti-Epidemic and Resumption Working Group]”, in China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, archived from the original on 2020-04-13:

The village of Chenchi is located in the town of Wulipu, Hubei province in central China, with the163 coordinates 111° E and 30° N (Figure 3).

2020, Fan Yang, Guangqing Chi, Ge Wang, Shirui Tang, Yunting Li, Cong Ju, “Untangle the complex stakeholder relationships in rural settlement consolidation in China: a social network approach”, in Land, volume 9, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

The Commercial Press
Wulipu
Xiandai Hanyu Cidian


Wangshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 網市／网市 (Wǎngshì).

網市／网市 (Wǎngshì)

7. [Jingzhou City, Hubei Province] Police Seize Mr. Peng Hongdao of Wangshi Town, Jianli County, Who is Still Missing
Mr. Peng Hongdao is a 35-year-old resident of Wangshi Town, Jingzhou City, Jianli County, Hubei Province. In April 2005, personnel from the Jianli County 610 Office and the local police station in Wangshi Town arrested him. He is still missing.

2005 June 19, “Latest News from China”, in Falun Dafa - Minghui.org, archived from the original on 2021-08-19:

A town in Jianli, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.


Chengbei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 城北 (Chéngběi).

城北

a subdistrict in central China; a village in central China

A subdistrict of Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

A village in Zhucheng, Xinzhou district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.


Chengbei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 埕北.

(The Chengbei oilfield in the western Bohai Sea covered a small area of 24 km2.)[...]The issue of contractual format did not arise with regard to Chengbei because there was no risk in developing a previously verified oilfield.

1984, Chae-Jin Lee, China and Japan: New Economic Diplomacy, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 84–85:

The Chengbei oil field contains reserves adequate to produce at a peak rate of 10,000 barrels per day.

1986, Shengzhen Zhao, “Energy and Society”, in Stephen E. Guisinger, editor, The United States and China: A New Era in Economic Relations, Auburn House Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:

In February 1980 another agreement was signed between the two countries for the development of the Chengbei oil field in the western Bohai Gulf where the Chinese had done earlier exploration work.

1990, Alfred K. Ho, Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: Can Capitalism and Communism Coexist?, Praeger, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:


Chengzhong

/ˌt͡ʃʌŋˈd͡ʒɒŋ/

/ˌt͡ʃʌŋˈd͡ʒʊŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 城中 (Chéngzhōng).

The party members of the Nantan office in Chengzhong District of the city of Xining, in their educational activities, carried out criticism and self-criticism in a side-by-side comparison with the standards for party members.

1982 October 15 [1982 July 21], Weihai Yu, “PARTY EDUCATION EMPHASIZED IN QINGHAI PROVINCE”, in CHINA REPORT POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, number 350, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 54:

The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. local time on a heavily trafficked street in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, state media reports. It marks the latest instance of a sinkhole opening around busy or rapidly developing parts of China.
Video from the scene captured by CCTV and circulating on Chinese social media showed people gathered at a bus stop outside the Great Wall Hospital in the city’s Chengzhong District when the road suddenly buckles, sending people on the street running.

2020 January 14, Kim Bellware, “Huge sinkhole swallows bus in China and explodes, killing at least six”, in Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-14; republished as Bus falls into China sinkhole (Stars and Stripes), volume 78, number 193, 2020 January 15, →OCLC, page 12:


Dongbao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東寶／东宝 (Dōngbǎo).

Jingmen City is actually an administrative amalgamation of two districts: the larger Sha-yang District with 914,000 residents and the Dongbao District with 590,000.

2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

A total of 10 serum samples were collected by the community service center of Dongbao District in Jingmen. All subjects were over 65 years old (10 subjects divided into non-AD patient and AD patient groups).

2019 June 30, Dan Tao et al., “Development of a Label-Free Electrochemical Aptasensor for the Detection of Tau381 and its Preliminary Application in AD and Non-AD Patients’ Sera”, in Biosensors, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

Liu Yanli was sentenced to four years' imprisonment by the Dongbao District People's Court in Hubei's Jingmen city, which found her guilty of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a public order charge frequently used to target peaceful critics of the regime.

2020 May 6, Gao Feng, “China Jails Hubei Bank Clerk For Critical Social Media Posts”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2020-05-06:


Wudian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳店／吴店 (Wúdiàn).

A town in Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, China.

Good Planning
Wudian Town in Zaoyang City is well laid out, with 18 roads dividing it into different parts where various special areas, such as the industrial district, commercial zone, residential quarters and tourist area[...]

1999, Beijing Review, volume 42, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

In September~December 2002, the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the Nos. 1 and 2 Chu State tombs and the horse-and-chariot burial pits auxiliary to them in the Jiuliandun cemetery of Wudian Town in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province.

2003, 考古, numbers 7-12, 科学出版社, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

Guojiamiao cemetery is located in Dongzhaohu Village, Wudian Town, Zaoyang City, with an area of 1,200,000 square meters, which is divided into Guojiamiao Tomb Area and Caomenwan Tomb Area.

2015 June 4, “New Music Archaeological Discovery Found in Guojiamiao, Zaoyang, Hubei Province”, in Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, archived from the original on 2015-06-14:

A town in Zaoyang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.


Sanhe

In the country, the counties of San-ho, Huai-jou, Pao-ti, to the north and east of Peking, are also understood to be distinctively Presbyterian ground. San-ho County alone is said to have 1,200 towns and villages, while the other counties are also very populous.

[1904, Arthur Judson Brown, “Comity and Cooperation”, in New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening, 2nd edition, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 293:

The German crew, working for the broadcaster ARD, said the episode took place in Sanhe, a city in Hebei Province, roughly 30 miles east of Beijing.

2013 February 28, Andrew Jacobs, “China: German Journalists Say They Were Assaulted for Filming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-03-01, Asia Pacific:

Two counties under Langfang's jurisdiction that border Beijing - Guan and Sanhe - had already announced home quarantine measures. Guan reported one new COVID-19 case but Sanhe did not say whether any of its residents were diagnosed with the disease.

2021 January 12, Jing Wang, Andrew Galbraith, Se Young Lee, “Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat”, in Kim Coghill, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-17, China:

A county-level city in Langfang, Hebei, China.


Sanhe

三合

a town in central China; villages in central China

A town in Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

A village in Sanhe, Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

A village in Dongjin, Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.


Pidu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 郫都 (Pídū).

Linwan neighborhood is located in the Pidu district, a suburban district in Chengdu. In 2017, the GDP of Pidu district was 52.5 billion yuan, ranking the 10th among 22 district and counties in Chengdu.

2020, Bo Qin, Jian Yang, “Access of Low-Income Residents to Urban Services for Inclusive Development: The Case of Chengdu, China”, in Shabbir Cheema, editor, Governance for Urban Services: Access, Participation, Accountability, and Transparency, Springer, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:

Second dissident prosecuted
Meanwhile, authorities in Chengdu's Pidu district have moved ahead with the prosecution of veteran dissident Chen Yunfei, who was detained by police four months ago on the same charge as Xie.
Chen is currently being held at the Pidu District Detention Center, awaiting trial for "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble" after he wrote an online article based on visits to Sichuan schools during the past two years.

2021 July 15, Gao Feng, “Police in China's Sichuan Formally Arrest Veteran Rights Activist”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2021-07-15:

Pidu District of Chengdu is located in the central part of the Western Sichuan Plain, which is a national demonstration area for rural revitalization, and the "rural new community Pidu model" has been extended to the whole Western Sichuan Plain.

2022, Artificial Intelligence in China, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 410:


Duodao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 掇刀 (Duōdāo).

The factory owner and Deng are not likely to face criminal charges as police denied any form of slavery existed in the factory and the employees were not forced to work and their freedom was not restricted, said Qin Shaoxiong, an official with the human resources and social security bureau in the Duodao District, where the factory is located.

2012 August 31, “Mentally ill toiled in poor conditions”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2002-08-31:

Caiyuan village is under the jurisdiction of Macheng town, Duodao District, Jingmen City, Hubei Province

2017, Fu Fangyu, Cao Yu, “Study on the "3F-in-1" Sustainable Reconstruction of Rural Architecture from Placeality Perspective--A Case Study of Caiyuan Village in Jingmen City, Hubei Province”, in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

Located at Jingmen High-tech District (Duodao District), Jingmen Vehicle Production Base is made up of Jingmen Vehicle Factory and Spare Parts Industrial Park, which are modern intelligent factories established by Jingmen Municipal Government in an earlier period.

2020 October 21, “With New Production Base Settled in Jingmen, GWM Expands Its Global Production”, in Great Wall Motor News, archived from the original on 2020-12-02:

To evaluate the clubroot disease-resistant and agronomic characteristics of 16 rapeseed varieties at Duodao District of Jingmen City, factor analysis was performed in this study.

2022, Xiao-jing (侯晓静) Hou, 龙永红 [Long Yong-hong], 龙飞 [lóngfēi, Long Fei], 王瑾 [Wang Jin], 许强 [Xu Qiang], “基于因子分析的抗根肿病油菜品种（系）综合评价——以荆门市掇刀区根肿病发病区为例 [Evaluation of clubroot-resistant of rapeseed varieties based on factor analysis--A case of clubroot diseased areas in Duodao District of Jingmen City]”, in 中国油料作物学报 [Chinese Journal of Oil Crop Sciences], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-21, page 183:


Macheng

The Postal Map romanization romanization of the Mandarin 麻城 (Máchéng).

Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.

[1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

A Chinese Communique reports that the Japanese have captured Macheng in eastern Hupeh.

1943 January 4, “JAPS CAPTURE MACHENG”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXI, number 2, Bombay, page 1:

The minibus was hit by a truck loaded with bricks in Macheng in Hubei province, Xinhua said. Fourteen children were injured.

2007 May 28, “China bus plunge kills seven children”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-10, Latest Crisis:

A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.

麻城

a county-level city in central China; a town in central China

A town in Duodao district, Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Zhongxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鍾祥／钟祥 (Zhōngxiáng).

The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu.
THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.

[1738, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99:

Days after dozens of Hubei teachers were attacked by angry students whose attempts at cheating on China’s highly competitive national college entrance exam were foiled, the nation is struggling to understand what exactly went wrong.[…]
The attack happened on Saturday afternoon outside a school in Hubei’s Zhongxiang city. After the exam, students besieged teachers who had reportedly imposed strict measures and stopped students from cheating.

2013 June 12, Amy Li, “China grapples with attacks on teachers after cheating halted on college exam”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-06-13, News China:

In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei.[…]
She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.

2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific:

A county-level city in Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Xinshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新市 (Xīnshì).

A town in Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China.


Xiantao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 仙桃 (Xiāntáo).

Wuhan grows steadily, changing its face quite a bit each year one comes. Hanyang spreads out, and Mianyang, where we halted for a meal and rest, at its county town of Xiantao, which is now becoming a modern city.

1981 July, Rewi Alley, “Flood Strikes again in Hubei”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XX, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

Residing on the banks of the Hanshui River in south-central Hubei Province are more than 1.8 million inhabitants of Xiantao City. The central city area itself may only have about 250,000 people, but Xiantao has jurisdiction over a number of sprawling suburbs and surrounding villages which pushes its population up. Because of improved roads, Xiantao is now only a 50-minute drive from the provincial capital, Wuhan.

2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:

The mayor of a city in central China made a rare public address calling for calm after thousands of people protested against a waste incineration project over fears it would damage the environment and residents' health.[…]
The city of Xiantao, in Hubei province, said on Sunday it would suspend the project but protests continued on Monday.

2016 June 27, Megha Rajagopalan, “China city shuts down waste-burning plant project over protests”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-06-28:

仙桃

sub-prefecture-level city in central China


Tuanfeng

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 團風／团风 (Tuánfēng).

On May 14 the Fourth Field Army led by Lin Piao, Lo Jung-huan and other comrades forced the Yangtse on a front of more than one hundred kilometres in the Tuanfeng-Wuhsueh sector east of Wuhan.

1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 388:

The 38-year-old from Tuanfeng county, in Huanggang x , then drove to a hotel in Wuhan x where he cut his wrists.

2015 March 25, Angela Meng, Nectar Gan, “Around the nation: Chinese policeman's looks bring female marathon runners to standstill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-03-26, China Insider:

The disease, which kills almost all pigs it infects, occurred on a farm of 102 pigs in Tuanfeng county in the east of the province.

2019 July 11, “China reports African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-16, Healthcare & Pharma:

團風

county in central China; a town in central China

A town in Tuanfeng, Huanggang, Hubei, China.


Tianmen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天門／天门 (Tiānmén).

This interaction between popular suspicions and rumors generated by inflammatory literature was clearly noted by Li Hung-chang in connection with the Tienmen, Hupeh, missionary case of 1869.

[1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 303:

Conscripted and entered the barracks November 2, 1939. He was killed in action March 17, 1942, in Tienmên Hsien in Hupei-Shêng. Army lieutenant. He was twenty-five years old.

[2000, “Takaaki Ishigami”, in Listen to the Voices from the Sea: Writings of the Fallen Japanese Students, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

City officials in Tianmen in Hubei Province in central China are being punished and investigated for their role in the killing of the man, Wei Wenhua, the general manager of a construction company, and the beatings of five villagers during a dispute on Jan. 7, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

2008 January 18, David Barboza, “Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-12-24, ASIA PACIFIC:


Xiangyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄陽／襄阳 (Xiāngyáng).

On conferring with the great pioneer, Dr. Griffith John, they were advised to locate in Northwest Hupeh. Accordingly, in the spring of 1892, Mr. H. N. Ronning and Mr. D. Nelson, together with Mr. P. Matson of the Swedish American Mission Covenant, and Mr. J. B. Brandtzaeg of the China Mission Society of Norway, set sail up the Han River on a tour of investigation. They went as far as Fancheng, Siangyang, and Laohokow. An account of their trip tells that when they came to the twin cities of Fancheng and Siangyang the men climbed up a small mountain overlooking the two cities, for a quiet time with God.

[1934, “The History of the Lutheran United Mission”, in White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934, →OCLC, page 14:

The tunnel has been lined with reinforced concrete, the work over each of the first two winters taking 200,000 commune folk of Kwanghua and Hsiangyang.

[1974, Rewi Alley, “Two Ancient Strategic Cities—Chinchow and Laohokow”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XIII, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, column 1:

For Mr. Huang and his family, their journey began on Sunday in the city of Xiangyang in Hubei Province, about three hours away from Wuhan, the Chinese city hardest hit by the virus. They had been visiting relatives during the Lunar New Year holiday last month when the authorities locked down Xiangyang as part of a security cordon to contain the epidemic.

2020 February 6, Isabella Kwai, “What It’s Like to Be Quarantined on an Australian Island”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-06, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.


Nanzhang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南漳 (Nánzhāng).

Hubei initiatives included one far from the capital, about 145 miles upriver on the Han at Nanzhang county, where there were self-government educational activities as well as one in Yun county, far away in Hubei’s northwest corner.

1995, Roger R. Thompson, “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200:

NANZHANG COUNTY IS SITUATED in the northwest of Hubei province, south of the Han River, neighboring Yi Cheng in the east, Bao Kang in the west, Xiangfan in the northeast, Gu Cheng in the northwest, Yuan An to the south, and Jing Men to the southeast.

2015, Jack R. Lundbom, “A Brief Introduction of Christianity in Nanzhang County”, in Cao Jing, transl., On the Road to Siangyang: Covenant Mission in Mainland China 1890-1949, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 212:

Traffic police officers push a car on a snow-covered road in Nanzhang county, in Hubei province.

2018 January 7, Kinling Lo, Mimi Lau, “China braces for another wave of snowstorms, issues sleet alert”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-07, People & Culture:


Baokang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保康 (Bǎokāng).

7. The river Chü 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang 漳.

[1967, J. D. Frodsham, “Notes to the Poems”, in The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo, volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, →OCLC, page 192:

We also found the individual plant from which the type specimen of P. baokangensis was collected. This peony, cultivated beside a farmer’s house in Huoping Township, Baokang County, turned out to be a hybrid between P. rockii subsp. rockii and P. qiui.

2010, Hong De-Yuan, “Introduction”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:


Echeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 鄂城 (Èchéng).

Japanese warships were said to have passed the boom at Hwangkang and Ocheng, 95 kilometres downstream below Hankow, and to be about to break the boom at Twanfeng, 70 kms. down river from Hankow.

[1938 October 23 [1938 October 22], “Rumors of Advance”, in Hong Kong Sunday Herald, volume XII, number 764, sourced from Hankow, →OCLC, page 4, column 6:

Along the 60-mile railroad from the Tayeh iron mines to the Wuhan plant, another small integrated iron and steel complex, with a capacity of 100,000 to 200,000 tons, began to arise in 1958 at Ocheng. This hsien was actually raised to the status of municipality in 1960, but the level of development evidently did not justify such a high administrative level, and Ocheng was returned to hsien status in late 1961.

[1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Middle Yangtze Plain”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 157:

Yesterday Ms Yuan recalled how she was forced to become what the Japanese called a 'comfort woman' when she left her family in Hankou to work at a Japanese hostel in Echeng in July 1940.

2005 August 11, “Former sex slave still fighting for apology”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-16:

The Chinese take training in information warfare very seriously. The PLA has conducted several field exercises in recent years. An informaticised people’s warfare network simulation exercise was conducted in the Echeng district of Hubei province.

2007, John R. Vacca, “How Masqueraders Infiltrate a System”, in Practical Internet Security, Springer, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 217:


Songbei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 松北 (Sōngběi).

松北

a district in northeastern China; a subdistrict in northeastern China

On August 30, 2007, 172 drivers submitted a petition to the Harbin Songbei District People's Court; when court proceedings were held on June 20, 2008, only 38 plaintiffs were present (of which 30 were professional lawyers). The Songbei District People's Court submitted a judicial suggestion to the related competent administrative department.

2010, Jinrong Huang, “Public Interest Law in 2008”, in Lin Li, editor, The China Legal Development Yearbook, volume 4, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 284:

Thirteen practitioners were arrested by the Songbei District Police Department in Harbin City on January 18, 2017.

2018 January 5, “Twelve Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced to Prison in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province”, in Minghui.org, archived from the original on 2018-01-08, Accounts of Persecution:

Between 2010 and 2015, the outer boundary expanded out to the Harbin Ring Expressway and sections surpassed the administrative boundary and spread over the northern border of Songbei District, constituting a significant change in the outer boundary. These changes reflected the growing effects of the Harbin urban core.

2021 August, Yuan Wang, Yilong Han, Lijie Pu, Bo Jiang, Shaofeng Yuan, Yan Xu, “A Novel Model for Detecting Urban Fringe and Its Expanding Patterns: An Application in Harbin City, China”, in Land, volume 10, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-17:

A district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

A subdistrict of Songbei district, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.


Laohekou

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 老河口 (Lǎohékǒu).

In 1897 Ku-ch'eng Hsien, a city lying some fourteen miles below Lao-ho-k'eo, was opened as an out-station, and an evangelist sent down for permanent work.

[1903 March, Miss Black, “The Work at Lao-ho-k'eo.”, in China's Millions, volume XI, number 3, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 34, column 2:

A middle school under construction on the outskirts of Laohekou, Hubei Province, China

2018 April 3, Emily Feng, “Chinese developers seek piece of booming education market”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2021-11-02, Education:

A county-level city in Xiangyang, Hubei, China.


Gucheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古城 (Gǔchéng).


Gucheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 穀城／谷城 (Gǔchéng).

Here we may cite the example of the Tungsheng Agricultural Producers’ Co-operative in Kucheng County, Hupeh Province. Nine crops, mostly vegetables, were planted in 1954 on each of the twenty-eight mou singled out. The per-mou yield was 20,000 catties for vegetables and 500 for maize, a yield that could only be obtained from as many as eleven “1,000-catty” mou.

[1959 September, Tung Ta-lin [董大林], “Co-operation Preceding Mechanization”, in Agricultural Co-operation in China [中国农业合作化的道路] (China Knowledge Series), 2nd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 45:

The industrialization of tea production in Wushan Town of Gucheng County, Xiangfan City, provides another example of the benefits generated by improved rural roads. The dispersed tea-growing fields in the area are now linked by modern roads, allowing the formation of an integrated tea growing base of 1,700 hectares.

2007 December, Huanzhi Liu, “New Roads to Prosperity in Central China”, in China Today, volume 56, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78:

The Party Secretary and the Mayor of Gucheng County, Hubei Province were removed from their positions for using public funds to buy expensive cars within their administrative jurisdictions.

2014, Qingli Meng, “Findings: The Three Stages of Corruption in China”, in Corruption in Transitional China: A 33-Year Study, Wolf Legal Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:


Hebi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴壁／鹤壁 (Hèbì).

But she said authorities in her native Henan province seized her passport this week, visited her home several times and told her not to leave the city of Hebi, where she lives. Officials also told her to inform her hosts that she is “too sick to attend” the meeting, she said.

2014 October 23, Simon Denyer, “China bars AIDS activist from traveling despite talk of ending discrimination”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-24, Asia & Pacific:

Beijing resident Hu Yongwei bought more than a dozen apartments in the small central Chinese city of Hebi for about $31,000 in all, betting they will be financially more rewarding than other investments.

2023 June 16, Liangping Gao, Marius Zaharia, “Cheap 'like cabbage' apartments in some Chinese cities draw buyers, and caution”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING/HONG KONG, archived from the original on 2023-06-16, China:

A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.


Zaoyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 棗陽／枣阳 (Zǎoyáng).

Seven people have died and seven were injured on Thursday after a car drove into a crowd in Central China, local media reported.[…]
The incident occured^([sic – meaning occurred]) in Zaoyang City in Hubei Province.

2019 March 22, “China: Car drives into crowd killing multiple people”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-03-22, News: