Gulou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Xiayi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏邑.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Linying

The child plummeted halfway down the 20-metre water well while flying a kite on farmland in Linying County.

2017 February 8, “Girl rescued after eight hours stuck in well”, in Sky News, archived from the original on 2017-02-08:


Yuanyang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Nanle

zh-l

南樂／南乐 (Nánlè)

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

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

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

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

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

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


Shaoling

The protesters are angry that teachers employed by Luohe municipal government make nearly twice as much money as those in the rural counties and districts of Yancheng, Yuanhui, Shaoling, Linying, and Wuyang.

2014 April 21, Jiang Pei, Lin Jing, Luisetta Mudie, “Henan Teachers Vow to Keep Marching Over Pay Demands”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2014-07-02:

In Shaoling District, there was no soil sample of 3 years of continuous cropping, but there was no significant difference in the acid phosphatase activity in soil samples between 5 years and 2 years of continuous cropping.

2017, Chen Jifeng et al., “Changes in Soil Enzyme Activity and Nutrient Content in Different Years of Continuous Cropping Tobacco Fields”, in Asian Agricultural Research, volume 9, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC:


Luohe

Henan province reported one confirmed case in Luohe city on Saturday. Local authorities said the infected person had been in contact with two doctors based in Jia county who later tested positive for the virus even though they had showed no symptoms.

2020 April 1, Colin Qian, Ryan Woo, “Chinese county says in lockdown after coronavirus cases”, in Catherine Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-04-01, World News:

A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.


Suiyang

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

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


Suiyang

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

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

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

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

中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）

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

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

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

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


Macun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 馬村／马村.

The shallow aquifer water in the areas of Macun, Wangfeng, and Hanwang must be intensively treated before utilization due to contamination. Macun and Hanwang, located in central Jiaozuo mining area, must be treatment with advanced green technology before any domestic use.

2018 March, “Evaluation of hierarchically weighted principal component analysis for water quality management at Jiaozuo mine”, in International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, volume 128, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

This study was conducted at the farmland of Hanwang coal mine (Figure 1), located in Macun district of Jiaozuo city (35°10'-35°21' N, 113°04'-113°26' E), northwestern Henan Province, China.

2018 June, Xiao-ming Guo, Tong-qian Zhao, Wen-ke Chang, Chun-yan Xiao, Yu-xiao He, “Evaluating the effect of coal mining subsidence on the agricultural soil quality using principal component analysis”, in Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 78, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-23:


Yuanhui

Yuanhui district, the only district under the jurisdiction of Luohe City, realized 713 milion yuan of gross national product (GNP) in 1997, up 15.6% over 1996, ranking first in the city; its revenue increased[…]

1999, 郭晓勇, 朱玉生, “河南卷”, in 中囯新兴城市, volume 2, 新华出版社, →OCLC, page 500, column 2:

The case of X is typical. X is a farmer in Dongwang Village, Daliu Township, Yuanhui District, Luohe City, Henan Province. From 1997 to 2003, he constantly tried to petition and to sue the Township government (shangfang) for its mistreatment of a disabled woman, Z, living in the same village.[...]In April 2010, the Yuanhui District party committee and government decided to dismiss three officials from their position because they misused their power to fabricate the certificate to prove X was suffering from a mental disorder.

2014 June, Liu Ran, “Ethical Enquiry into the Conditions under which Involuntary Commitment Can be Ethically Justified”, in Asian Bioethics Review, volume 6, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Villagers watch Henan Opera performance in Qianyuan Village of Yuanhui District in Luohe, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 6, 2017.

2017 February 6, “Henan Opera attracts villagers in C China's Henan Province”, in Xiang Bo, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2021-05-24:

Since it was unable to determine the jurisdictional arbitration institution, Luohe Municipal Yuanhui District People's Court had jurisdiction over this case.

2018, Lin Yifei, Judicial Review of Arbitration: Law and Practice in China, Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, →OCLC:


Jian'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建安 (Jiàn'ān).

Commencing in July 2012, the present study was conducted near Zhangpan Town, Jian'an District, Xuchang City, Henan Province (33°59'N, 113°58'E) in the 2017–2018 growing season.

2020, Lifang Wang, Jutao Sun, Juan Kang, Zhiyong Zhang, Zhouping Shangguan, Chenyang Wang, “Influence of nitrogen addition on the changes in nitrogen and carbon fractions in soil profiles of wheat fields”, in Land Degradation & Development, published 2021, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2541:

In 2018 and 2019 Zhang visited the Henan Province village of Huozhuang in Jian’an District, Xuchang City.

2023 May 8, Faith Sutter, “Changing face of Shehuo festival”, in Harvard Gazette, archived from the original on 2023-05-08, Arts:


Dengfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 登封 (Dēngfēng).

"Dengfeng city has the oldest mountain in China, Mount Song," Mei said. "It is the cradle of Zen in China; it has Shaolin; it has a very profound culture. They wanted to promote it, combining Zen and Shaolin together, to help boost tourism."

2008 August 31, David Barboza, quoting Mei Shuaiyuan, “In the mountains, another big Chinese extravaganza”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.


Wuyang

18,000 workers of Wuyang County in Honan who are now concentrating on building water detention work, in coordinated efforts with hundreds of thousands of workers in the river's upper reaches, have as a result registered an average of 3.8 cubic meters of earthwork per man each day. This is twice last year's rate.

1951 May, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 101-126, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38:

Many books relate how, in 1852, the five major TCC Classics turn up in a salt store in Wu Yang County, Henan, where Yang’s student, Wu Cheng-qing, happens to be the local magistrate.

[2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist, Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:

Rescuers search for survivors in Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County in central China's Henan Province on Friday.[…]The local government in Wuyang county, where the accident occurred, had called off the search by Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

2015 October 31, “Henan horror: 17 builders killed as residential property collapses in central China, 9 people in serious condition”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-31, China:


Jin'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金安 (Jīn'ān).

An official with the education bureau in Lu'an’s Jin’an District in Anhui, where the school is located, told Shanghai Daily on Tuesday that the program had not been registered at the bureau and had falsely claimed to be run by the Maotanchang Middle School, which is famous for gaokao preparation.[…]However, an official surnamed He from the Jin’an District Education Bureau told Shanghai Daily by phone that they had noticed the program and launched an investigation.

2019 July 23, Meiping Yang, “Students warned over cramming risks”, in SHINE, archived from the original on 2022-05-21:


Jiefang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 解放 (Jiěfàng).

Head Tian concluded that he is confident about the promising future of Jiefang District in the 21st century.

1999, “An Interview with Head of Jiefang District of Jiaozuo City”, in 中囯新兴城市: 河南卷 [Zhongguo Xinxing Chengshi: Henan Juan], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 282:

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:


Weidu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 魏都.

The sentence was upheld on Aug. 2 by the Weidu People's District Court in Xuchang. Monday's hearing was the second hearing at a higher level of the same appeal case.

2010 September 20, Qiao Long, Luisetta Mudie, “Christians Appeal Labor-Camp Term”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2010-12-09, China:

Wu Guoyan from Qilidian Village, Weidu District, and Xuchang City, Hunan^([sic – meaning Henan]) Province is known as the "Western Overlord". He had frequent interactions with gang leaders after released from the labor camp.

2017, Ding Guomin, “Necessity and Urgency of Solving "Three Agriculture-related Problems"”, in Gao Jianxun, Liu Yun, transl., Solving the Problem of "Agriculture, Farmer, and Rural Area" by Rule of Law, Hamilton Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

Footage of the fire in Xuchang’s Weidu district shows pedestrians staring up at the woman standing in the window of her burning home as plumes of smoke spew into the air.

2018 August 3, Tom Herbert, “Mother died moments after throwing children to safety during house fire”, in Metro, archived from the original on 2018-08-03:

It can be seen from the calculation results that in the research area of Xuchang City, more than 1/3 of the residents cannot use the function of urban park green space by walking within 30 minutes. It can be seen that the walking accessibility of park green space in Weidu District of Xuchang City is generally poor.

2020, Cui Yage et al., “Analysis of Walking Accessibility of Park Green Space in Weidu District of Xuchang City Based on GIS”, in E3S Web of Conferences, volume 165, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-05, page 3, columns 1, 2:


Dancheng

/(ˈ)dɑnˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

/(ˈ)dænˈt͡ʃɛŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄲城／郸城 (Dānchéng).

According to Chairman Mao's instruction on having the poor and lower-middle peasants administer schools, the party branch of the (Choulou) production brigade of the (Wuchai) commune in Tancheng County, Honan Province, has grasped 10 things in carrying out revolution in education by relying on the poor and lower-middle peasants since the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

[1975 December 2 [1975 November 25], “Do a Good Job in Carrying Out Revolution in Education in Accordance with Chairman Mao's Instructions”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 232, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from People's Daily and Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page H 1:

The interest rates paid for private credit were extremely high in some areas. One such case was recorded in a study of Dancheng County, Henan Province. The study found that the combined revenues for production teams was 21.76 million yuan between January and September 1979, yet the expenditure was 36.33 million yuan.

1988, Justin Yifu Lin, “Rural Factor Markets in China After the Household Responsibility System Reform”, in Chinese Economic Policy: Economic Reform at Midstream, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190:

Widely shared video footage of Dong Hong, mayor of Dancheng county in Henan province, showed him saying at a meeting that “anyone returning home from medium or high-risk areas will be quarantined and then detained”.

2022 January 23, Phoebe Zhang, “Covid-19: Chinese mayor derided after detention threat for Lunar New Year returnees”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-23, Politics:


Laocheng

On October 20, Zhang Jinxing, a journalist for Cheng Du Shang Bao newspaper, was reportedly assaulted and detained for eight hours by police from Laocheng District, Luoyang, Henan Province, while reporting on a traffic accident.

2010, Serenade Woo, edited by Deborah Muir and Anna Noonan, China Clings to Control: Press Freedom in 2009, International Federation of Journalists, →OCLC, page 15:

A court in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, began hearing a case where 266 households in the city sued their local government over land requisition and violation of regulations on protection of the old town.
The 266 families claimed that the Laocheng (old town) district government began a policy of requisition of land in the ancient town on August 8 last year, ordering the seizure of more than 1,000 mu (66.7 hectares) in a move that contradicts the city's 2011-2020 overall plan and the country's regulation on ancient town protection.

2014 March 28, “Luoyang residents sue gov't over land requisition”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2022-05-15:


Mengjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孟津 (Mèngjīn).

He began the trek from Luoyang train station to his hometown in Mengjin county, central Henan province, on Thursday morning after arriving by train from Shanghai.

2018 January 26, Laura Zhou, “‘I’ll save the cash to buy clothes for my wife’: Chinese migrant worker’s 40km trek home”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-26, Society:

Almost all the households of Mengjin County weaved the cloth, and the merchants of Shaanxi Province participated in it and put the product on the market.

2019, Feizhou Zhou, Institutional Change and Rural Industrialization in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

A district of Luoyang, Henan, China, formerly a county.


Luolong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洛龍／洛龙.

First, inappropriate locations of disclosure of information that affect public access to the information. The assessment shows that some local government have not disclosed different kinds of information in their corresponding columns. For example, on the website of the Government of Luolong District, Luoyang City, Henan Province, the interpretations and explanations of enrollment policies of schools of compulsory education are put not in the column of Policy Interpretations", but in the column "Luolong Today", in which the information is updated more quickly than in other columns, thus making these explanations and interpretations even more difficult to find.

2021, He Tian, Yanbin Lv, editors, Assessing Government Transparency in China (2018), →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 79–80:

As the city of Luoyang is striving to increase its appeal to young people, the program also featured a youth station located in the Luolong District, where young talents coming to the city can not only enjoy comprehensive infrastructures, comfortable environments and considerate services, but also receive employment and daily life guidance.

2022 April 8, “Xinhua Silk Road: Peony-themed live streaming activities kick off in C. China Henan's Luoyang”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2022-04-14:


Xiuwu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 修武 (Xiūwǔ).

THE ancient art, lost for nearly 1,000 years, of blending clays so that the design is embodied in the porcelain article like a colored pattern into woven cloth, has been revived in its original home, Dangyangyu, Xiuwu county, Henan province.

1980 July, Tingjun Hou, “Blended Clay Porcelain”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty.

[1983, Wanda Garnsey, Rewi Alley, “Honan”, in China, Ancient kilns and modern ceramics: A guide to the potteries, Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 20–21:

When women in a Yellow River community of Henan Province fled in advance of a "high tide" last spring, Xiuwu County officials tore off roofs of their houses and knocked down walls with tractors, according to a Chinese medical staffer who witnessed the wrecking.

1985 January 7, Michael Weisskopf, “ONE COUPLE, ONE CHILD: Second of Three Articles Abortion Policy Tears At China's Society”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-03:


Shangjie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上街 (Shàngjiē).

After 1956, insofar as published accounts are concerned, archaeological work at the Shang sites in Cheng-chou became less intensive though still persistent. The only accounts have dealt with excavations at Shang-chieh 上街 in 1957-59,¹⁵¹ Ming-kung-lu West in 1965,¹⁵² a palace foundation site in 1973 and 1974,¹⁵³ and Chang-chai-nan-chieh 張寨南街 in 1974.¹⁵⁴

[1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Prolegomena: Five Doors to Shang”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:

Shangjie District, known as the "capital of aluminum", is situated in the economic golden triangle in the Central Plains. It is 37 km to the west of Zhengzhou City and the first industrial satellite town of Zhengzhou City[…]

1999, 中国新兴城市: 河南卷, volume 2, 新华出版社 [Xinhua], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

On the 18th of November 2003, China Aluminum Company Henan Branch held a foundation ceremony solemnly at Shangjie District of Zhengzhou, called the Aluminium City of China.

2005, Aluminium, volume 81, numbers 7-12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 674:

A cousin of his was a bank manager in the Shangjie area of Zhengzhou, and in the early 1980s Zhang went there in search of work opportunities.

2005 [2000], Jinqing Cao, “An economically important town — Chenliu”, in Nicky Harman, Huang Ruhua, transl., China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on rural society [Huang He Biande Zhongguo], RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 74-75:


Guancheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 管城 (Guǎnchéng).

Dan Ye, who is a committee member of Beida Women's Mosque, is also a member of the Guancheng District Women's Federation in Zhengzhou City.⁶ She took the initiative to report to the Federation the work of the women's mosques, including mediation in neighbourhood and domestic disputes, family planning and legal rights education. Dan Ye appealed to the Guancheng District Women’s Federation to establish a working relationship with the women’s mosques. Despite the praise this report received, Beida Women’s Mosque is still waiting for the Federation to act on its assurances.

2001, Jingjun (水镜君) Shui, “In Search of Sacred Women's Organizations”, in Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Milwertz, Red Chan, editors, Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers, Berg, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:

With a population of approximately 93.6 million, Henan is the second most populous Chinese province after Guangdong. Although the population is highly homogeneous with 98.8% being Han, Henan has the largest Muslim Hui population in eastern China, which constitute approximately 1% and lives mostly in Muslim enclaves in the Guancheng District (in Zhengzhou), the Chanhe District (in Luoyang) and the Shunhe District (in Kaifeng).

2013, Rongxing Guo, “Henan”, in Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:

Located in Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou, the Shang City is the ruins of the early-day capital of the Shang Dynasty.

2021, Wei Ren, Yan He, “Mount Songshan: The Center of Heaven and Earth”, in Historic Monuments of Mount Songshan, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 30:

A Hui district in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.


Xinzheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄭／新郑 (Xīnzhèng).

Chengchow Honan Provincial Service in Mandarin at 1030 GMT 14 February reported that on 10 February, over 150,000 proletarian revolutionaries, revolutionary masses and PLA commanders and fighters in Hsincheng County held an oath-taking rally on "striking down factionalism and strengthening party spirit" presided over by (Chang San), a member of the standing committee of the provincial revolutionary committee and chairman of the Kaifeng Special District revolutionary committee.

[1968 February 15, “Honan Masses Take Oaths Against Factionalism”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 33, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page ddd 14:

A commune member at Hsincheng County, Honan Province, presented two square bronze wine-vessels of 37 catties each, dated the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods (770-221 B.C.), which he came upon while irrigating the fields.

[1972, Li-chuan Chang, Lin Yu-ching, “The Masses Support Archaeological Work”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48:

Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng. [...]The special interest of the Xinzheng bronzes is their diversity.

1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

Xinzheng City, outside Zhengzhou, has built the Xuanyuan Temple and a museum dedicated to the Yellow Emperor, in honour of the time he spent at Xuanyuan Hill, to which he lent one of his names.

2015 May 26, Sascha Matuszak, “Cradle of civilisation”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-27:


Zhongmu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中牟 (Zhōngmù).

Kuantu was in the northeast of the present Chungmou County, Honan Province, and the scene of the battle between the armies of Tsao Tsao and Yuan Shao in A.D. 200.

1966 [1954], Mao Tse-tung, On Protracted War, 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1967, →OCLC, page 115:

Cao Cao’s army, one fifth the size of Yuan Shao’s, resisted the enemy at Guandu (Kuantu, now the northwest of Zhongmu County, Henan Province).

2004, Charles Xingzhong Li, “Cao Cao”, in Christina A. Salowey, editor, The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. (Great Lives from History), volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:

The rival villagers failed to settle their dispute, which quickly grew to involve thousands of people in Zhongmou County, located between the cities of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, according to two accounts of the incident.[…]
One person briefed about the clashes said that authorities may have been particularly alarmed after police stopped a 17-truck convoy carrying Hui men to the area from other counties and provinces as it passed through Qi County, near Zhongmou.

[2004 October 31, Joseph Kahn, “Ethnic Clashes Erupt in China, Leaving 150 Dead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-12-06, Asia Pacific:

A local community health center in the county of Zhongmu in Henan, on Thursday. Such rural facilities are the first line of defense in a triage system to prevent overcrowding of county hospitals, but many are under pressure.

2023 January 6, David Pierson, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, Olivia Wang, Qilai Shen, “China’s Covid Surge Threatens Villages as Lunar New Year Approaches”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-06:


Chanhe

Police and firefighters rushed to the scene but were prevented by thick smoke from entering the dance hall. Some of the trapped victims jumped from the building onto air mats put out by the rescuers. Most of the 309 dead came from urban Laocheng, Chanhe, and Xigong districts of Luoyang: they were suffocated by the fumes.

2005, Sandra Forty, “Luoyang Fire, China, 2000”, in Disasters, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 190:

[…]Chanhe District, Luoyang City, the guild hall started to be built in the 9th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1744 AD) in the Qing Dynasty, with the donations made by merchants from Luding Prefecture (present-day Changzhi) and[…]

2007, 河南文化遗产: 全国重点文物保护单位, 文物出版社, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Although the population is highly homogeneous with 98.8% being Han, Henan has the largest Muslim Hui population in eastern China, which constitute approximately 1% and lives mostly in Muslim enclaves in the Guancheng District (in Zhengzhou), the Chanhe District (in Luoyang) and the Shunhe District (in Kaifeng).

2013, Rongxing Guo, “Henan”, in Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:

Allegedly, Yue confessed that he himself went to a Luoyang local scoundrel named Ma Tulong (also nicknamed Ma Longzi) in Dongguan in today's Chanhe district of Luoyang and asked Ma to have the work done at the price of 5,000 Chinese yuan.

2020, Dong Wang, “Blighted Beauty: Longmen and Cultural Heritage Law in Early Twentieth-Century China”, in Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

A Hui district in Luoyang, Henan, China.


Erqi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 二七 (Èrqī, literally “February Seventh”).

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Zheng Jianjun, the man offering the reward, is a self-employed truck driver from Yangduo, a village in the Erqi District of Zhengzhou.[…]
Zhu Guanjun, chief of the political section of Erqi District Branch of Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau told Beijing Today, “To push investigation work by economical tools is a good thing.[…]
In response to the pressure of public opinion, the Erqi District Branch of Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau has formed a special work team to re-investigate Zheng Yanshuan’s case.

2004 May 21, Chu Meng, “Papers Say 'No' to 200,000 Yuan Reward Ad”, in Beijing Today, number 155, →OCLC, page 1, columns 1, 2, 5:

Zhai Zhenfeng, former director of the housing bureau in Erqi District in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, was found guilty of embezzling 37 million yuan (6 million U.S. dollars) of public funds, according to the Zhenzhou^([sic – meaning Zhengzhou]) Intermediate People's Court.

2014 December 18, Ben Blanchard, Sui-Lee Wee, “Housing official jailed 25 yrs over corruption”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2014-12-18; republished as Clarence Fernandez, Robert Birsel, editors, China police chief who let off drunk son charged with graft, Reuters, 2014 December 18, archived from the original on 2023-03-20, Top News:

Erqi District of Zhengzhou City is located in the southwest of Zhengzhou City, the capital of Henan Province.[…]
Erqi District has the advantage of location development. It is the commercial and trade center of Zhengzhou City and an important transportation hub. Erqi District has a long history and rich culture.

2020, Dina Pei, Dongming Bao, “Decision-Making Power and Top-Level Design of Regional Promotion of Basic Education”, in Zhenjun Yao, transl., Constructing a Future Development Model for China’s Basic Education, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162:


Gongyi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鞏義／巩义 (Gǒngyì).

Gongyi City, in central China’s Henan Province, adopted a model housing program which emphasized pooling funds for housing construction. Over the past four years, the city has collected over 88.29 million yuan, including 54.54 million yuan from individuals, and has completed residential construction of over 370,000 square meters.

1992 April 21 [1992 April 14], “Burden Sharing as Transitional Measure”, in Daily Report: China, number 77, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:

A 19-year-old man in Gongyi, in Henan Province, entered a room where 21 children were having classes, locked the door, ignited a can of gasoline and set the room on fire, killing at least three 5-year-olds and injuring 14 others, a local official and state news media said. A teacher was also injured.

2006 May 9, “World Briefing Asia: China: Arson Attack On School Kills 3 Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-16:

Gongyi City (Gǒngyì Shì), formerly called Gongxian County, is between Zhèngzhōu and Luòyáng and is home to a fascinating series of Buddhist caves and tombs built by the Northern Song emperors (c AD 517). More than 7700 Buddhist figures populate 256 shrines.

2015, Damian Harper et al., China (Lonely Planet), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 432:

"This is the heaviest rain since I was born, with so many familiar places flooded," said an internet user in the inundated city of Gongyi on Chinese social media.

2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-20:


Bo'ai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博愛／博爱 (Bó'ài).

HONAN COUNTY GRAIN -- Since 1965, Poai County has exceeded every year the grain output target set by the national agricultural development program. Grain and cotton output in 1969 set new records. Spring farming is now in full swing.

[1970, Daily Report People's Republic of China, numbers 42-62, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

28. In February 1939, wealthy leaders in Kaifeng were beaten and executed by the Japanese for refusing payment. The entire business community in Bo'ai county was locked up until they paid their taxes. Li and Jiang 1987: 61.

1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 426:

ReTo was awarded contracts covering 4 villages in Bo’ai County, Jiaozuo City, located in Henan province.

2020 August 27, “ReTo Eco-Solutions Completes Henan Province Sewage Treatment Projects”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2022-06-20:

A sprinkler irrigates a corn field to mitigate the impact of drought brought by high temperatures, in Xiliangshi village of Boai county in Jiaozuo, Henan province, China June 20, 2022.

[2022 July 5, Albee Zhang, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “Heatwaves expected to sweep northern China in next two weeks”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-07-11, Asia Pacific:


Xinmi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新密 (Xīnmì).

The participants stressed that they must apply to the building of the regime Mao's Army-building line and Lin's principles and politices, laying stress on building the Army politically. PLA representatives [not named] stationed at the (Hsinmi) mining bureau, Chengchow motor vehicle plant and Chengchow coal-mine machinery factory "have done well in this respect". (Chengchow, Honan provincial service 23.30 GMT 22.11.70)

[1970, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

The poor and lower-middle peasants of the Kuanyintang production brigade of Mihsien county, Homan province, used indigenous methods to produce well over three hundred loudspeakers, and rediffusion reaches every household.

[1978 [1971 September 21], James C. Y. Chu, “People's Republic of China”, in Broadcasting in Asia and the Pacific: A Continental Survey of Radio and Television, Temple University Press, sourced from New China News Agency, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 28–29:

The children are dressed in their Sunday best when "Grandma Jane" arrives at the orphanage in rural Xinmi County.[…]
Until 1994 Marcum, now 58, taught high-school biology in Mound City, Kans. Then one day "God told me to move to China," she remembers. A self-described "spiritual Christian," she took early retirement, told her husband and two grown children she'd see them during summer holidays and journeyed to Henan province, where friends introduced her to Xinmi officials

1998, George Wehrfritz, Lynette Clemetson, “Missionaries Flock to China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2008-08-29, Religion:

By the end of November 1958, incidences of peasants starving to death were reported in the Mi County of Henan Province.

[2003, Yanlai Wang, “Legacies of Mao Zedong: Constraints and Opportunities”, in China's Economic Development and Democratization, Ashgate, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:

Zhang Haichao was twenty-eight when he got pneumoconiosis. He was fit and well before he started working at an abrasive-materials factory in Xinmi, not far from Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, where he comes from. On the job, he inhaled a huge amount of dust every day. In the second half of 2007, he began to cough and felt short of breath.

2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:


Jiyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 濟源／济源 (Jǐyuán).

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濟源／济源 (Jǐyuán)

The River Ch'in, he explains, rises in Shansi and after entering Honan at Chi-yüan continues its course through the two districts of Ho-nei and Wuchih until it joins the Tatan River and eventually empties itself into the Yellow River.

[1891 January 2 [1890 November 29], “River Administration in Honan”, in North-China Herald, volume XLVI, number 1222, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].

2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:

Three lead smelters in Jiyuan city in Henan, China’s top lead producing province, phased out 150,000 tonnes a year of capacity in the first half of the year on environment issues, sources at two of the smelters said on Wednesday.

2010 June 30, Polly Yam, “Three lead smelters in China Jiyuan phase out capacity -sources”, in Ed Lane, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-01, MINING & METALS - SPECIALTY:


Jinshui

/d͡ʒɪnˈʃweɪ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金水 (Jīnshuǐ).

In a closed trial on December 24, 2004, the People’s Court of Jinshui District in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, convicted Zhang Ruquan, along with his associate Zhang Zhengyao, in a public prosecution on charges of defamation that “seriously undermined social order or the state interest.” The two were sentenced to three years in prison for defaming former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

2005, “Journalists Imprisoned in 2004”, in Bill Sweeney, editor, Attacks on the Press in 2004, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 251, column 2:

In the city of Zhengzhou, the vice premier inspected the Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, the Zhengzhou City Center for Disease Control and a community public health service station in the city’s Jinshui District.

2004, Guomei (夏国美) Xia, HIV/AIDS in China (艾滋病在中国）, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 104:

Officers in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, said on Wednesday they received a complaint about an “online celebrity who planned and filmed a car crash video in the street that seriously disturbed the traffic order”.[…]
At about 6pm, Chao entered the intersection of Nongye Nan Lu and Yongping Road in Jinshui district in his blue Lamborghini and pretended to collide with Cao’s electric scooter, the report said.

2019 August 23, Sue Ng, “Chinese ‘humour blogger’ and his crew detained and fined after police fail to see funny side of car crash stunt”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-23, Society:

Li Yongsheng was found Friday afternoon in a garage under the Jincheng International Plaza in Zhengzhou’s Jinshui District, The Paper said. It said he was trapped when the garage flooded Tuesday and lay on a ventilation duct surrounded by floating cars.

2021 July 24, Dake Kang, “Man in central China survives 3 days in flooded garage”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-07-24:


Huixian

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

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

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

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

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

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


Zhongyuan

/ˈd͡ʒɔŋ.juˌɑn/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中原 (Zhōngyuán).

On the night of 19 April, Hou Zongbin, secretary of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, Zhang Zhigang. member of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, and leaders of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department and Zhengzhou City went to Zhongyuan District Public Security Bureau, Ludong Village Police Substation, Zhengzhou Railroad Public Security Bureau, Erqi District Public Security Bureau, Dehua Street Police Substation, and some other police substations in Zhengzhou City to inspect work and see police officers and policemen on duty there.

1990 April 25 [1990 April 20], “Henan's Hou Zongbin Inspects Police Substation”, in Daily Report: China, number 080, sourced from Zhengzhou Henan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59, column 1:

As early as 2002, the People's Court of Zhongyuan District in Zhengzhou, He'nan^([sic – meaning Henan]) Province, a court at the basic level, issued Several Provisions on the Application of the Precedent Decisions Mechanism (Guanyu Shixing Xianli Panjue Zhidu de Ruogan Guiding), under which the adjudication committee of the court selected and issued precedent decisions.

2012, Zhenbao Jin, “From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker—On the Role of the Supreme People's Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China”, in Lei Chen, C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, editors, Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

The lockdown in Zhengzhou began early last week when people in more than a dozen neighborhoods in the central Zhongyuan district, west of the Foxconn factory, were told to stay at home, according to an official notice.

2022 October 27, Chang Che, Amy Chang Chien, “China’s Latest Covid Lockdown Affects a Major iPhone Factory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-27, The Coronavirus Pandemic:


Qinyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁陽／沁阳 (Qìnyáng).

A group of eleven inscribed tablets of jade and stone, dating from about the sixth century B.C., is said to have been discovered around 1940 at Ch’in-yang, Honan.

[1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, “Engravings on Stone and Jade”, in Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

In Chinyang County, compared with 1965 the grain yield per mou this year was up by 49.5 percent and the "contribution to the state" by 54 percent. Winter work now in progress includes building water conservancy projects, afforestation and roadbuilding.

[1970 January 7 [1969 December 30], “Honan Grain Production”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 4, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page D 6:

“I don’t regret what happened. We heard that after we were arrested they improved conditions,” Mr. He, 32, said by telephone from his home in Qinyang city near Jiaozuo, in Henan Province, where he returned to his wife and 5-year-old daughter after receiving a seven week jail term in Singapore.

2013 April 1, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Back in China, Bus Driver Doesn’t Regret Singapore Strike”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-19, View from Asia:

In the central province of Henan, the town of Qinyang has almost completely locked down its nearly 700,000 residents from Sunday, with one person from each household allowed out every two days to get groceries.

2022 July 11, By Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Shanghai braces for more mass COVID testing amid fresh curbs across China”, in Marius Zaharia, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-07-11, China:

A county-level city in Jiaozuo, Henan, China.


Shanzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陝州／陕州 (Shǎnzhōu).

This paper focuses on the sunken courtyard, a typical vernacular architecture that utilizes underground space, carries out field investigation and questionnaire survey in villages of Shanzhou District, China.

2022, Fang Wang, Shunyi Wang, Beijia Cheng, Wanjing Wang, “To inhabit, retain or abandon? Adaptive utilization of energy-efficient sunken buildings by rural households in Shanzhou, China”, in Energy and Buildings, volume 255, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-21:


Mianchi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 澠池／渑池 (Miǎnchí).

澠池／渑池 (Miǎnchí)

Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.

1991 [1987], Zongxu Zou, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:


Jili

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉利 (Jílì).

In March this year when production of the factory was in full swing, four procuratorial personnel of Jili District took away account books of a service company at the factory’s dormitory in Xigong District of Luoyang City. Four days later the procuratorate sealed two safes belonging to the company, forcing the company to stop doing business.

1988 June 29 [1988 June 20], Chen Chaozhong (7115 2600 0022) [陳朝中], “District Party Committee Secretary Causes Production at a Chemical Works To Be Partly Stopped Because He Fails To Extort What He Wants”, in Daily Report: China, number 88-125, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO, p1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 25, column 2:

These businesses, usually small and weak, were often forced by corrupt officials to engage in bribery in order to stay in business. For example, as revealed by the People's Daily (June 22, 1988), Gao Yuncong, secretary of Jili District Party Committee of Luoyang City, Hunan, forced the Jili Chemical Factory to buy houses, cars, and color TV sets for him.

1994, Ting Gong, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes, Praeger, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

In the freer political atmosphere before the 1989 repression, peasant protests against the Party in Henan were sometimes openly discussed. A transcript of a meeting between peasants and cadres in Jili district near Luoyang published in the Peasants’ Daily recorded some vivid complaints.

1996, John Gittings, “Peasants in Revolt”, in Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke, Pocket Books, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:

(7) Wetland eco-geological environment system: This system is mainly distributed along two banks of the Yellow River in Jili District, Luoyang, with an area is 15.72 km², 0.1% of the total area.

2019, L. Yang et al., “The Regionalization of Eco-Geological Environment System”, in Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 199:

(historical) A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.


Zhongzhan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中站 (Zhōngzhàn).

The Chungchan Coal Mine People's Commune in Chiaotso municipality of Honan Province has built a chain of auxiliary and processing workshops to serve[…]The Chungchan Coal Mine People's Commune embraces three large coal mines and 16 collieries which account for two-thirds of the coal output in Chiaotso municipality.[…]For more than a year, thanks to the close cooperation with State-owned factories and mines, and Chungchan Coal Mine People's Commune has gained an all-round and rapid development of production in all fields.

[1960 [1960 April 19], “Chungchan Coal Mine's People's Commune in Chiaotso Serves Big Factories and Mines and Promotes Production”, in Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 2248-2268, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong, China), →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 12, 14:

The Chung-chan Coal Mine, under the reflection of the Party's socialist construction general line and the greater understanding of the staff and workmen in Communist thinking, has made great progress in raising production. In mid-September, the Chung-chan Coal Mine People's Commune eliminated the wage system and started to try out the "supply system."

[1960 August 11 [1958 November 19], Chiao-tso City Commission, “Chung-chan Coal Mine People's Commune Tries Out the Supply System”, in Chinese Communist Coal Mining Continues Technical Advance, →OCLC, page 6:

At last, the paper points out the location of five logistics parks in Zhongzhan district, Macun district, High-tech Zone, Qinyang city and Xiuwu county and obtains the best layout program of logistics parks in the method of AHP comprehensive evaluation.[…]and districts in Jiaozuo city. In terms of the comprehensive level, Zhongzhan district owns the highest[…]The above shows that Zhongzhan district owns the highest comprehensive level of[…]

2011, Zhongmei Guan, Hongwu Niu, “Study on the site selection of logistics park based on the AHP method: Take Jiaozuo city for an example”, in 2011 International Conference on Multimedia Technology, →DOI, archived from the original on 2023-04-11:

What she was doing was always supported and guided by the New Education tream in Jiaozuo. She also moved the directors, principals, and headmasters in her district. In May 2009, the Rural School Seminar on New Education in Zhongzhan District was hosted in her school, and with her encouragement, a group of teachers formed a team of[...]

2015, Zhu Yongxin, On the Way to the New-Style Education (Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 196:

Henan Sanmu Surface Material Industrial Park is located in the Jiaozuo City Zhongzhan District Western Industry Cluster Zone. The project is led by China Coating Industry Association and the leading enterprise is Jiangsu Sanmu Group, one of China 500 manufacturers. It is key construction project of Henan Province and one of ten key construction projects of Jiaozuo City. The project is the industrial park introduced through industry association investment attraction, industrial chain investment attraction and industrial park investment attraction of Zhongzhan District.

2015 October 14, “Sanmu Industrial Park—Henan Jiaozuo”, in Sanmu Group [江苏三木集团有限公司], archived from the original on 2017-03-19:

Collapse geological disasters are widely distributed in the city. Among them, there are more coal mines and more goafs in Macun district, Sizhuang and Zhongzhan district, and the collapse is serious.

2018 January, Chi-feng Wang, You-li Feng, Hao-jie Tian, Pei-yang Wang, “Status of Geological Disasters in Jiaozuo City and Countermeasures for Prevention and Control”, in International Journal of Scientific and Technical Research in Engineering, volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, page 9:

The original coal yard was located in the southwest of Zhongzhan District, Jiaozuo, with a designed annual coal preparation capacity of 30 × 104 t. Raw coal was from Gaoping, Shanxi Province, dominated by powder anthracite.

2022, Yuan Wang, Cuifeng Du, Jiuzhu Wang, Huaiyu Li, “Field Application of Mine Dust Suppression”, in Chemical Dust Suppression Technology and Its Applications in Mines (Open-pit Mines), →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 274:


Lu'an

Chen Shaoyu was born on 9 April 1904 into a landlord family of Lu'an (Anhui).

2000, Thomas Kampen, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of the Chinese Communist Leadership, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:

In March of 2000, Lu'an City was put under the direct administration of Anhui Provincial Government.

2008, State of the World's Cities 2008/2009: Harmonious Cities, Earthscan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

We recently investigated fields planted with F. anhuiensis in Lu'an city and Huaibei city of Anhui Province and found that the leaves of most plants exhibited mottle and mosaic symptoms, which are typical of potyvirus infection. These symptoms were thought to be caused by a virus similar to TFMV.

2012 March 15, Wei Chuanbao, Wu Qiyao, Yang Yu, Liu Chunyun, “Prokaryotic expression of a Thunberg fritillary mosaic virus CP gene and antiserum preparation”, in Canadian Journal of Plant Science, volume 92, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

She worked in the foreign trade sector in Lu'an, Anhui for five years before engaging in legal translation for six years with both Chinese and international law firms in Beijing.

2013, Josh Stenberg, Irina's Hat: New Short Stories from China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 345:

Close to Hefei is this tiny city called Lu'an, but after that? Nothing.

2015, Mary Peart, Her Asian Billionaire, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 224:

Xiong Zhengqing, the father of an 18-month-old boy who suffered brain damage in Lu'an, Anhui Province, had seen his application to euthanize his child declined, Guangzhou-based Nandu Daily reported on Wednesday.

2015 February 2, Chen Heying, “Euthanasia advocates press cause despite official caution”, in Global Times, archived from the original on 2015-04-22:

Since February 11, Chongqing has welcomed the most returnees home.
The most traveled route is from Shanghai to Lu'an in Anhui Province (a 550-kilometer journey).

2015 February 18, “What does the biggest human migration on earth look like on a map?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2015-04-22:

But in a twist worthy of the movie “Babe,” many of the pigs won a reprieve on Tuesday. The government of Lu'an, a city in Anhui, mobilized workers to help relocate the pigs, reported The Paper, a Chinese news website.

2016 July 5, Chris Buckley, “Amid Floods in China, Stranded Pigs Are Thrown a Lifeline”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2016-07-05:

The pair told police in Lu'an in Anhui province that they had collided with another truck, but did not want to stop as they were in a hurry to get home for the Lunar New Year holiday, the China Youth Daily reported.

2017 January 26, Stephen Chen, “Chinese truck drivers press home for the holidays after top of their cab sheared off in accident”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2017-01-26:

Lu'an guapian tea (LAGP), produced in Lu'an, Anhui Province, and the top 10 most famous teas in China (Bai et al., 2017), is the only tea in which tender leaves are processed without any buds or stems (Heiss, 2001).

2019, Huan Su, Weiquan Wu, Xiaochun Wan, Jingming Ning, “Discriminating geographical origins of green tea based on amino acid, polyphenol, and caffeine content through high‐performance liquid chromatography: Taking Lu’an guapian tea as an example”, in Food Science & Nutrition, volume 7, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-22, page 2167, column 2:

Recently, the HIV/AIDS epidemic situation in Lu'an city (Anhui province, China) has remarkably increased. Our earlier studies showed that the HIV transmission rate among discordant couples was 30% in Lu'an, accompanying by a higher rate of male-to-female transmission rate compared with the female-to-male transmission rate [11].

2019 May 29, Gongyan Ma, Haiyan Chen, Jin Chen, Zhenghao Jiang, Tai Ma, “HIV transmission between spouses living in Lu'an city, Anhui province, China: a longitudinal study”, in Epidemiology and Infection, volume 147, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-13:

Decapitation is an ancient practice in Asia with inadequate research. The present study reports on the osteological examination of a headless skeleton excavated from a high-status tomb in Chu State style dating back to the late Warring States Period (ca. 3th century BC) in Lu'an, Anhui, China.[...]In 2011, a high-status tomb dating back to the Bronze Age is scientifically excavated in Lu'an, Anhui province, which is the last capital of the Chu State called “Shou Chun” during the Late Warring States Period in China (Qin 2012).

2020 August 23, Yawei Zhou, Shuang Lin, Rangping Qin, Hui-Yuan Yeh, Qun Zhang, “Winner takes all: reconstructing the decapitation of a warrior in Bronze Age China from osteological evidence”, in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, volume 12, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

The campaign was given additional momentum last Friday when Lu'an, a city in east Anhui province, recorded four locally transmitted cases, China’s first in 20 days.

2021 May 21, Christian Shepherd, “China's Lu'an reports 1 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 case”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2021-05-21:

Lu'an City of east China's Anhui Province on Saturday reported one new confirmed locally-transmitted COVID-19 case, according to the municipal health commission.

2021 May 23, “China's Lu'an reports 1 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 case”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2021-06-10:

As an automatic badminton pitching machine works, Wang Li keenly observes the flight and placement of each newly produced shuttlecock at a workshop in Xin’an town, Yu’an district, Lu’an city, east China’s Anhui Province.[…]
Statistics show that Lu’an city raises nearly 15 million Wanxi white geese, a local species, each year. The geese provide a solid foundation for the development of the feather and down industry in Yu’an district.

2024 August 12, “White-goose industry prospers in Yu’an district, China’s Anhui”, in Xian Jiangnan, Liang Jun, editors, People's Daily Online, archived from the original on 2024-08-12:

A prefecture-level city in Anhui, China.


Huoqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 霍邱／霍丘 (Huòqiū).

An example of success through relying on the masses was our problem of cutting a canal through Pingkang Hill in Huochiu county.

[1974 December, Chih-chang Chen, “Dry Hills into Water Country”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1:

One phase of Maoist land reconstruction policy for which nobody now has a good word to say is the reclamation of lakes. In Huoqiu county in western Anhui, Chengxi Lake was partly reclaimed, reducing its area by two-thirds and its capacity of 700 million cu m by nine-tenths. As a direct result, the lake could no longer accommodate the flood waters resulting from heavy rain, and flood danger in the whole area was sharply increased.

1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:

Lu Qianrong was visited in his home in Linshui township, Huoqiu county by a group of officials from the local government, as well as higher-ranking officials from nearby Changzhou city, he told RFA on Monday.

2018 July 9, Gao Feng, “Officials in China's Anhui Target Xi Jinping Critic For 'Psychiatric Treatment'”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2018-07-09:

Tai, Ching-nung was born in Huochiu in Anhui province.

[2001, “Tai, Ching-nung [臺靜農]”, in Highlights from the Permanent Collection [北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展], Taipei Fine Arts Museum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

北美館二〇〇一 : 典藏常設展


Xigong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西工.

In March this year when production of the factory was in full swing, four procuratorial personnel of Jili District took away account books of a service company at the factory’s dormitory in Xigong District of Luoyang City. Four days later the procuratorate sealed two safes belonging to the company, forcing the company to stop doing business.

1988 June 29 [1988 June 20], Chen Chaozhong (7115 2600 0022) [陳朝中], “District Party Committee Secretary Causes Production at a Chemical Works To Be Partly Stopped Because He Fails To Extort What He Wants”, in Daily Report: China, number 88-125, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing RENMIN RIBAO, p1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 25, column 2:

Xigong, a district of Luoyang in the central province of Henan, paid out more than 1,000 yuan (65 pounds) for about 2,000 dead flies on July 1, the day it launched the scheme with the aim of encouraging cleanliness in residential areas.

2007 July 10, “City suburb puts a bounty on flies”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-19, Oddly Enough:

In another example which took place in 2006, the People's Court of Xigong District, Luoyang City, and Henan Province accepted and tried the first case that a driver filed a suit against the traffic police authorities for traffic signs that were in violation of his rights.

2009, The China Legal Development Yearbook, volume 2, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 219:

In an effort to promote public hygiene, a Chinese city recently offered to buy dead flies from residents at the equivalent of 0.06 cents per fly.
Officials in the Xigong district of Luoyang city instigated the plan. According to Hi^([sic – meaning Hu]) Guisheng, the district’s administrative director, ‘We think giving people money will be more effective than fining them to keep the city clean.'

2013, Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, The Unbelievable Truth, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:

Researchers at Luoyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology were excavating a group of more than 300 ancient tombs in Luoyang's Xigong district when they made the discovery.

2018 November 9, Tracy You, “Vintage wine, anyone? 2,000-year-old alcohol is found inside a lavish ancient tomb in China”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2018-11-09:


Hubin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 湖濱／湖滨 (Húbīn).

湖濱／湖滨 (Húbīn)

The monk who performs the dance of the top light is not a true Buddhist disciple, but a farmer in Xiangyang Village, Yadi Township, Hubin District, Sanmenxia City.

(Can we date this quote?), Ni Hao, Travel Guide of Henan, China, DeepLogic, page https://books.google.com/books?id=ftGJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT189:

[…]in Hualong District of Puyang City (8.44/105), followed by Hubin District of Sanmenxia City and Luoyang City. In females, it was the highest in Luoyang City (5.22/105), followed by Hebi City and Hubin District of Sanmenxia City.

2020, 张建功, 张韶凯, 2019河南省肿瘤登记年报, →ISBN, page 273:


Luanchuan

Translingual: Luanchuanraptor

Luanchuan County of Loyang Special District is abolished. The administrative area of the former Luanchuan County is transferred to Sung County.

1960, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volumes 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 10:

In Luanchuan County, Henan Province, for example, people subsist on 0.052 ha per capita. Government subsidies and cheap loans for agriculture are the only vehicles to keep the area afloat. Annual per capita income is approximately RMB 230 yuan. One of the three largest mines in the world—the Luanchuan molybdenum, lead, and zinc mine—attracted a deluge of miners.

1994, Geping Qu, Li Jinchang, translated by Jiang Baozhong and Gu Ran, edited by Robert B. Boardman, Population and the Environment in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:

Another 19 people were still missing, the local Dahe newspaper reported on its website, www.dahe.cn, after a 153-meter-long bridge in mountainous Luanchuan county in the central province of Henan collapsed on Saturday afternoon.

2010 July 26, Huang Yan, Ken Wills, “Flooding causes China bridge to collapse, killing 37”, in Andrew Marshall, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-12, Asia Crisis:


Neixiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 內鄉／内乡.

A drone image shows Muyuan Foods newly built multi-storey pig farm in Neixiang county, Henan province, China November 6, 2020.

2020 December 7, Dominique Patton, “Flush with cash, Chinese hog producer builds world's largest pig farm”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-12-07, Change Suite:


Yima

On the mainland, Yima city, a coal-mining center in central China’s Henan Province, had the highest sex ratio of 153.18 among China’s cities, while Tumeng^([sic – meaning Tumen]) city in Jilin Province had the lowest sex ratio of 99.15.

1988, “Sex and Age Composition of China's Population”, in New China's Population, Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112, column 2:

The Friday evening explosion in Yima city in Henan province shattered windows 1.9 miles away and knocked off doors inside buildings, Chinese state media reports said. Yima is part of Sanmenxia city.

2019 July 19, “At least 10 killed in explosion at gas factory in central China”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 2019-07-20:

The explosion on Friday evening, in the city of Yima in Henan Province, sent a ball of fire and thick plumes of smoke into the air, according to local state media.

2019 July 20, Jane Perlez, “Gas Plant Explosion in Central China Kills at Least 10”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-20, ASIA PACIFIC:

A county-level city in Sanmenxia, Henan, China.


Lingbao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靈寶／灵宝 (Língbǎo).

A total of 31 pottery kilns were found at the Chengyan ruins in the county-level city of Lingbao, which is under the jurisdiction of Sanmenxia City, said Wei Xingtao, deputy head of the provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology.

2020 May 24, “China Focus: Rare pottery kiln unearthed at 6,000-year-old ruin”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2020-08-04:


Lushi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盧氏／卢氏 (Lúshì).

Damage Control
On August 10, 2001, the weekend edition of Gongren Ribao (Workers’ Daily) in Lushi County, Henan Province, published a long lead story exposing redundant and extravagant projects pursued by the county Party secretary.

2007, Qinglian He, “Media Control in China”, in Sharon Hom, Stacy Mosher, editors, Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change, The New Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39:

Wang Fengying, 48, told her victims she was Princess Changping, a descendant of China’s Aisin Gioro, the family name of the Manchu emperors that ruled the country during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the Huashang Daily reported.
Yet in reality she was just an unemployed farmer from Lushi county, in Henan province.

2015 September 8, Alice Yan, “Royal aspirations: fake Chinese Qing dynasty princess jailed after 2.3 million yuan scam”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2015-12-16:


Yuzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禹州 (Yǔzhōu).

JU-CHOU is in the province of Honan, in the valley of the Ju River, some fifty miles west of the Ching-Han Railway line and to the southeast of Honan Fu. It is in the same general keramic district as Yü-chou, where the famous Sung Chün wares were made.

[1914, Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries, New York: Japan Society, →OCLC, page 18:

The curbs in the city of Yuzhou, in the central province of Henan, are similar to those imposed for nearly two weeks in the industrial hub of Xian, which has become China's latest COVID-19 epicentre.[…]
"So far, the source of the virus is unknown, the number of cases is unclear ... the virus control and prevention situation in our city is very severe," authorities in Xuchang city, which has jurisdiction over Yuzhou, said in a statement on Tuesday.

2022 January 4, Ryan Woo, Roxanne Liu, Gabriel Crossley, Ella Cao, “China's Xian vows strict implementation of COVID curbs even as cases decline”, in Jacqueline Wong, Michael Perry, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-01-04, Asia Pacific:

China ordered the nearly 1.2 million residents of the city of Yuzhou in Henan Province to stay home after three asymptomatic cases of the virus were discovered in recent days.

2022 January 4, Austin Ramzy, John Yoon, Karan Singh, “Hong Kong expands its vaccine requirements as it fights to control Omicron.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-04, Global Roundup:

A county-level city in Xuchang, Henan, China.


Yanshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 偃師／偃师 (Yǎnshī).

Continued excavation at the Shang dynasty site at Erlitou in Yenshih county, Honan province, has yielded more finds of importance.

[1975 November, Nai Hsia, “The Slaves Were the Makers of History—New archaeological finds on ancient Chinese slave society”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 2:

Another small plant in Yenshih County, Honan, reportedly raised daily output of vertical kilns from 80 to 140 tons while cutting its work force in half, through lengthening air-blast pipe and installing simple mechanical discharging devices.

[1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

At present the direct antecedents of the sophisticated cast vessels from Erlitou-period tombs excavated at Yanshi near Luoyang remain undiscovered. Traces of earlier metal-working at Yanshi are hinted at in remains of crucibles and metal fragments, but much more information is still required.

1987, Jessica Rawson, “Introduction”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

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


Tanghe

Feng Yuan-chun was born in 1900 in Tangho County, Honan Province. She graduated from the former Women’s Normal University in Peking and obtained the degree of Doctor of Literature at the Soibonne.

[1958, Feng Yuan-chun, “About the Author”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., A Short History of Classical Chinese Literature (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 124:

The afternoon of August 23rd in Tanghe County during a Bible study at a farmer's home, 31 house church leaders were arrested.

2006, Michael D. Suman, “Churches Established after the 1979 Revision”, in The Church in China: One Lord Two Systems, Bangalore, India: SAIACS, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 339:

In Nanyang Prefecture's Tanghe County, party secretary Bi Kedan was an enthusiast of the Great Leap Forward. In the autumn of 1958, Tanghe County set up 4,617 steel furnaces, and hoes, shovels, and other farming implements were sent to the smelters.

2012 [2008], Jisheng Yang, “The Epicenter of the Disaster”, in Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, 1st American edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:


Xinye

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新野 (Xīnyě).

In the first year of [the period] Yung-shih,⁶ he enfeoffed [Wang] Mang as Marquis of Hsin-tu with an estate of fifteen hundred households in the Tu District of Hsin-yeh [County] in Nan-yang [Commandery].⁷

[1970, “From the History of the Former Han Dynasty (Han Shu) by Pan Ku”, in William H. McNeill, Jean W. Sedlar, editors, Classical China, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 159:

Four macaque circus trainers charged with illegally transporting rare wildlife were acquitted on January 20 when an appellate court overturned guilty verdict in Xinye County, Henan province.

2015 January 30, Yang Xin, “Macaque Circus Trainers Cleared of Wildlife Transport Charges”, in Beijing Today, number 712, →ISSN, →OCLC, News, page 3, column 1:

Performance monkeys on break near their trainer during a daily training session last week at a monkey farm in Xinye County in China’s central Henan Province. In an area known for producing the animals and their trainers, the grizzled masters hope the Year of the Monkey brings new respect for their centuries-old tradition.

2016 February 8, Jason Lee, “Performance Monkeys in the Year of the Monkey”, in The New York Times, Reuters, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-09:


Pingdingshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山／平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān).

The explosion rocked a coal pit in the city of Pingdingshan, in Henan Province, about 1 a.m. on Tuesday, a city spokesman told the official Xinhua news agency.

2009 September 8, Mark McDonald, “Gas Explosion Kills 35 Miners and Traps 44, China Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-27, Asia Pacific:

Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.

2013, Xun Zhou, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:


Sheqi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 社旗.

Honan Province
Established Shechi County under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Special District.

[1966 March 24 [1966 March 22], “Changes of Administrative Divisions Listed”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 57, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China National Affairs, page CCC 3:

In 1988 he did so, but it was risky. Foreigners at that time were able to travel to Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, but were normally prohibited from traveling farther into the countryside. Ding Hei and others arranged for a motor-powered three-wheel taxi to pick Balcombe up in Zhengzhou and drive him several hours through the night to Macheng village in Sheqi County, next to Fangcheng County.

2003, David Aikman, “Foreigners”, in Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275:

Students attend class at a rural primary school in Sheqi county, in China's Henan province.

2021 June 13, Jay Matthews, “Big hole in popular view that China beats U.S. in education”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-13, Education:


Zhengyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 正陽／正阳 (Zhèngyáng).

In Zhengyang county in May 1923, for instance, local gentry in the southern district built a county militia in response to rampant banditry.

1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:

An investigation uncovered evidence of an organized crime group. According to police, some 40 local villagers from Zhengyang county in Henan applied for passports in this context over the past three years. Three organizers were soon detained while 21 passports were revoked and 28 people were prevented from leaving the country.

2013 March 20, Liu Dong, “Beggars’ world tour”, in Global Times, archived from the original on 2013-03-26:


Luoshan

Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power. Gentry militia in Luoshan county, for instance, reportedly refused to help the Guangshan gentry when it was under attack by the Communists.

1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:

Jin said Jiang’s sister visited him earlier this month and reported that he was in poor health. His skin tone was darker, he appeared gaunt, and his lips were cracked, Jiang’s sister told Jin. He requested that his sister pick him on his release date and bring him to their ancestral home in Henan’s Luoshan county.

2019 February 28, Yanan Wang, “Chinese rights lawyer disappears on prison release date”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-16:


Wancheng

Mr. Li Yansen, 67, is a retired engineer from Bayi Manufacturing in Nanyang City. During the morning of March 5, 2004, five police officers from Wancheng District came to his home and illegally searched it without showing a warrant or identification.

2004 November 16, “Five People Recently Abducted and Tried in the Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province”, in Falun Dafa - Minghui.org, archived from the original on 2022-08-16:

In Henan province, in the Wancheng District of Nanyang City, another house church was raided. All occupants of the church were arrested except for one elderly woman. Two foreign pastors, one from the United States and the other from Russia, both present at the time of the raid, were arrested along with their translator. Ma Hanzhong, a member of the house church and arrested with the others was beaten. The location of the two foreign pastors are unknown at this time (p.4).

2012 July, Emeka C. Ekeke, “Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians in the Roman Empire from AD54 to 100: A Lesson for the 21st Century Church”, in European Journal of Scientific Research, volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 185:


Shangcheng

For one learns that the first conference ever held on local methods of steel smelting has just taken place in Shangcheng county in Honan and has approved two native methods out of the dozens shat have been used.

1958 November 24, Anna Louise Strong, “China's newest crusade: Home-made steel”, in National Guardian, volume 11, number 6, New York, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3:

The court in Shangcheng county, a remote rural region of Henan province, ruled that Liu Mingju was not fit to raise the children, who are left solely in his care because his wife, Li Shaoju, is mentally disabled.

2018 October 9, Alice Yan, “China’s worst father? This ex-PLA soldier beat his six children and rented them out to criminal gangs”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-09, China:


Xichuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān).

Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down.

[1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305; republished as “China in Chains”, in The Truth About Communism, number 8, Milwaukee, Wis.: THE TRUTH, Inc., 1961, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

The revolutionary masses of Hsichuan County have completed, three months ahead of schedule, the construction of a bridge across the (Huang) River.

[1969 February 4 [1969 January 30], “New Honan Bridge”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 23, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 7:

"Owing to poor living adjustment, as well as the climate and poor acclimatization, not only is the spread of epidemics extremely serious, the death rate is about 30 percent," stated one 1961 government report from Xichuan County, Henan, which sent the dam migrants to Qinghai.

2009 February 27, Chris Buckley, “China farmers recall bitter days of famine for dam”, in Megan Goldin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-12-23, ワールド:


Changge

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋ(ˈ)ɡʌ/

In 1958 a production brigade in Changko county, Honan province, improved its soil by deep plowing and greatly increased its grain output. Chairman Mao recommended its experience to the whole country and called on all the communes to do the same.

[1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 29, column 3:

In the village of Pohu in Changko county, four children, left alone to play, fell into a well and were drowned. Accidents of this type, however, were not the only cause of infant and child mortality. Disease was the greatest killer.

[1980 [1951 October], Carolyn Teich Adams, Kathryn Teich Winston, “Social Policies for Working Families: A Comparative Inventory”, in Mothers at Work: Public Policies in the United States, Sweden, and China, New York, London: Longman, sourced from "Farm Nursery in Honan," China Monthly Review, 121, no. 4, 207, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:

The bowl and dish (Nos. 82-83) were intended for culinary use. They are two of six vessels unearthed in flawless condition from a cache in Changge County, Henan Province.

1988, Robert L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150:

Those convicted were hired by authorities from Changge city in central Henan province to stop petitioners airing their grievances in Beijing, the People’s Daily said on its website, citing a Beijing newspaper.

2012 December 2, Chen Aizhu, Niu Shuping, “In rare case, Beijing court sentences petitioner interceptors”, in Ben Blanchard, Daniel Magnowski, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-08-29, World News:

“It’s been difficult for companies to resume work and production,” Zhang Yongchao, the office manager of the veteran affairs bureau of Changge, a city an hour from the Foxconn plant, told The Times.

2022 November 18, Chang Che, John Liu, “An iPhone Factory Needs Workers. The Chinese Government Wants to Help.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-31, Business:


Shihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 溮河／浉河.

Public education centres will be set up in Xinyang city's Shihe district and in Maidian city's Shangcai county under an agreement reached by Unicef and officials from the Health Ministry and their colleagues in the provincial Government.

2001 November 2, “UN enlisted to tackle HIV-baby crisis”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-26:

On June 9, diplomats and reporters from many countries embarked on a journey of "Discovering the Most Beautiful Tea Village on the Silk Road". They came to Shihe District, Xinyang City, Henan Province to explore the secrets of Chinese tea, according to Shihe District Bureau of Culture, Radio & Television and Tourism.[...]
Only lush mountains and clear rivers can produce good tea. Shihe is located on the division line of north and south, with forest coverage rate of 70%. It is in the hinterland of China, with villages dotted among the mountains and waters, displaying leisure and tranquility. With a contiguous tea plantation of 100,000 acres, it is the origin and main producing area of Xinyang Maojian, China's "Top Ten Famous Teas". Haojiachong village in Shihe is a representative of the beautiful countryside. Villagers grow tea for generations.

2021 June 11, “Shihe: Dialogue with the World in "Tea Language"”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2021-06-11:


Zhumadian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 駐馬店／驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn).

The Chumatien prefecture is 14,710 square kilometres in extent. It has 773,330 hectares of arable land, 4,000 hectares of which is. in hilly country, 66,670 in marsh, and 166,670 in plains. Its two main rivers are the Hung and the Ju, which join together at the Anhwei boundary, and flow into the Hwai River.

[1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:

The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.

[1981, Dan N. Jacobs, “Going Home”, in Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272:

The size of the protest in Suixian County is extraordinary, but it is not an isolated phenomenon. Recently, farmers from the villages of Chenglao and Wenlou have been detained in the city of Zhumadian, where they went to press local officials for more help.
Wenlou, the only village in Henan that the government has acknowledged by name to have an AIDS problem, has become something of a showcase for the disease, its AIDS victims visited by officials from Beijing and given a clinic and a modicum of free medical care.
But villagers say the drugs dispensed there are worthless against their disease, and at the end of November eight villagers with H.I.V. marched into the Zhumadian health office and refused to leave without a promise of more help.

2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World:

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


Ruzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝州 (Rǔzhōu).

Ju-yao or Juchou porcelain.—Chinese authors state that the porcelain manufactured at Tingchou (see p. 402), being unfit for presentation to the emperor, the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of more suitable articles was ordered at Juchou, in Honan province.

[1890, Alfred E. Hippisley, A Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains, with a Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 399:

The Ju Yao of the Sung dynasty was made at Ju-chou, the modern Ju-chou-fu, in the province of Honan.

[1908, Yuan-p'ien Hsiang, translated by Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese ms. Text, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 12:

Ruzhou, a town surrounded by coal mines in Henan Province, borrowed and spent in line with China’s government-driven fads, which helped guarantee that Beijing would pay for much of it.

2019 November 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Cao Li, “How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-10:

In Ruzhou, a city southwest of Zhengzhou, streets have been turned into torrents, sweeping away cars and other vehicles, footage on social media showed.

2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-20, Environment:

A county-level city in Pingdingshan, Henan, China.


Zhanhe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛河 (Zhànhé).

Located in the southern part of Pingdingshan City, Zhanhe District covers an area of 123.5 sq km with a population of 210,000. It is made up of one township and one town and 71 administrative villages.

1999, 中国新兴城市: 河南卷, volume 2, 新华出版社 [Xinhua], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 242, column 1:

The Pingdingshan City Labour Dispute Arbitration Committee rejected Zhou Xianghua's appeal. Subseuqently, Zhou sued her work unit in court. On 9 December 2005, the case was tried by the Zhanhe district court of Pingdingshan. After hearing both sides of the argument, the collegiate panel delivered the verdict: Zhou lost her case.

2009, Xinyu Wang, “A Study of Current Employment Discrimination against Women”, in Yuwen Li, Jenny Goldschmidt, editors, Taking Employment Discrimination Seriously: Chinese and European Perspectives, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:

Note: 1. The Government of Zhanhe District is located at Shuguang Street, Xinhua District, Pingdingshan City;[…]

2010 May 31, “Appendix A The Seismic Precautionary Intensity, Basic Acceleration of Ground Motion and Design Earthquake Groups of Main Cities and Towns in China”, in 建筑抗震设计规范 [Code for Seismic Design of Buildings], Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186:

Objective: To analyze the epidemiological factors, epidemic law and change trend of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) in Zhanhe District of Pingdingshan City, provide scientific basis for making the prevention and control strategies. Methods: The epidemic data of HFMD in Zhanhe District from 2008-2011 were analyzed with descriptive epidemiology. Results: A total of 1 956 HFMD cases were reported in Zhanhe District from 2008-2011, the average annual incidence rate was 192.21/lakh, the severe rate was 8.08%, and there was no death case.

2013, Chen ShengLi, Wang XiangLi, Li XiaoYan, Luo Jun, “Epidemiological analysis on hand-foot-mouth disease in Zhanhe District of Pingdingshan City from 2008-2011.”, in Occupation and Health [职业与健康], volume 29, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-11:

A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.


Xin'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新安 (Xīn'ān).

One village in Xin’an county in Henan province has 120 women of childbearing age. Except for five women who are sterile, the rest each have three, four, or even five children. The husbands of these women are prosperous, and willing to accept financial penalties in order to have more children. “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs. We don’t mind paying,” say the village farmers.

1989 December, Shulin Deng, “Sound the Alarm on Population Growth”, in Current World Leaders, volume 32, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1038:

During the Jin Dynasty, a woodcutter by the name of Wang Qiao lived at the foot of a mountain in Xin’an County of He’nan^([sic – meaning Henan]).

2001, “The Legend of Mt Lanke”, in 韩玉 [Y N Han], transl., edited by 李小香 [Li Xiaoxiang], 中华文化的故事 [Origins of Chinese Culture], Asiapac Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 145:

At midday Wednesday, a few hours after the video began circulating online, the government of Xin’an County, in the city of Luoyang, announced that Mr. Si had been suspended from office and that the county discipline inspection commission had begun an investigation into his conduct.

2015 July 29, Austin Ramzy, “After Appearing Drunk on Television, Chinese Official Faces Inquiry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-17, Sinosphere:

The Hong Kong region belonged to Xinan county, under the charge of the county magistrate, whose yamen or official office was located in the walled city of Nantou within present-day Shenzhen.

[2001, James Hayes, “Shaping Village Culture: Imperial Government and Local Self-Management”, in South China Village Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 12:

In China, the compilation of local chronicles has a history for more than 2,000 years and can be traced back to the Qin dynasty. The last chronicles to include Hong Kong were completed in 1819, when it was still part of Xinan county during the Qing dynasty.

[2020 December 28, Ng Kang-chung, Jeffie Lam, Robbie Hu, “First volume of ‘Chronicles of Hong Kong’ launched as part of HK$780 million, eight-year project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-28, Politics:

(historical) A former county Guangdong, China.