Lüshunkou

旅順口／旅顺口 (Lǚshùnkǒu)

After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Japanese imperialists forced the Qing government to conclude the Treaty of the Sino-Japanese Meeting on the Affairs of the Three Northeastern Provinces and a supplementary treaty, thus replacing tasarist^([sic – meaning tsarist]) Russia as the colonial power in northeast China. Japan then began to station troops in southern Manchuria and established its Kwantung Army headquarters in Lüshunkou.

1999 [1995], Chen Yun, Selected Works of Chen Yun, volume III, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 399:

After the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, Japan occupied China's territory Lüshunkou and Dalian.[...]
The Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) Massacre
On November 21, 1894, the Japanese army seized Lüshunkou.

2005 July 28, Jin Xide, translated by Yuan Fang and Wind Gu, Japanese Wartime Aggressors 'Savage and Cruel' – Why and How, China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2016-08-24:

In the Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 17, 1895), China abandoned its claims to Korea, as well as ceding Taiwan and Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) to Japan.

2006, Alan Armstrong, Preemptive Strike: the secret plan that would have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70:

As Davies and Koo had discussed on the Queen Elizabeth, for the Russians, war against Japan offered an opportunity to regain some of the lands lost by the czar in the 1904-1905 Russo- Japanese War, including the southern half of Sakhalin Island, the Kurile Islands, and the ports of Dairen and Port Arthur (today called Lüshunkou)—exactly those territories the Japanese held out as a lure to Soviet cooperation.

2015, Michael S. Neiberg, Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 235:


Shizhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石柱 (Shízhù).

The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s Longshan county.

1982 February, Huanran Wen, He Yeheng, “China's Forests—Past and Present”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66:

The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.

2018 June 4, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-27, Environment:

The education commission of Shizhu county in Chongqing said the beating was inflicted by the founder of an illegal centre called Liuliu, which the commission last year ordered to close down because it did not have a permit to operate, online news outlet ThePaper.cn reported on Thursday.

2019 August 16, Ann Cao, “Online fury after tutor beats child in class in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-16, Society:

A Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.


Jiangjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江津 (Jiāngjīn).

The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in the Chongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.

2012 April 18, Michael Wines, “Landslide Risk At Reservoir Cited in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-04-19, Asia Pacific:


Xiushan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀山 (Xiùshān).

Ge and others (1979, p. 169) named the Rongxi Formation for red beds lying above the Majiaochong Formation and below the Xiushan Formation. The type locality is about 6 km south of Rongxi, Xiushan County, SE Sichuan.

1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

An explosion hit an unlicensed fireworks factory early on Sunday morning in remote Xiushan county, in southwestern Chongqing, destroyed three nearby houses and left one person missing, the Beijing News said.

2007 October 23, “Blast at fireworks workshops kills 18 in China”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-07, Latest Crisis:

A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.


Youyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酉陽／酉阳 (Yǒuyáng).

The agency said the tree, which is 1,344 metres in diameter, is believed to be about 75 years old, according to the Chinese Academy of Forestry Science. It was found in Youyang county, Sichuan (Szechwan) province.

1979 February, “Biggest Tree in China”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:

Travelling recently in southern, rural Chongqing, I was struck by the sense that something in the atmosphere was different from elsewhere in the mainland. Youyang county is a Tu ethnic area, and even though the Tu look different from Han Chinese - they are darker, with longer noses and diamond-shaped eyes - it was not the physical difference.

2004 June 28, “Rare women”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-02:


Nanchuan

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南川 (Nánchuān).

A specimen collected at Nanchuan, Szechuan, by the two German collectors Bock and von Rosthorn, was named H. xanthoneura.

1957 July, Elizabeth McClintock, “Hydrangeas”, in National Horticultural Magazine, volume 36, number 3, American Horticultural Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277:

Sanquan township in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, has received 305mm of rain in the past three days, the heaviest downpour since records began, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing meteorological authorities.[...]
In Nanchuan district, two road workers were reported missing, while 32 homes collapsed, and 360 were evacuated, Xinhua reported.

2014 August 12, “Floods batter southwestern China”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-05-07:


Yongchuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永川 (Yǒngchuān).

I remember on a summer’s day in 1934 when father told me of his personal experiences as the magistrate of Yongchuan, a county west of Chongqing, in 1917.

1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:

“Don’t simplistically equate ‘nothing has gone wrong’ with ‘nothing will go wrong,’” the local security committee of Yongchuan District in southwest China said last year. “At every moment always act as if we’re walking on thin ice, as if on the edge of an abyss.”

2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, Amy Chang Chien, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-06, ASIA PACIFIC:


Liangping

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 梁平 (Liángpíng).

Ho Yun-kang was a first grader at a junior middle school in Liangping County, Szechwan Province.

1978 August 8 [1978 July 29], “Education Ministry Praises Youth for Saving Collective Property”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, page E 18:

Many of the travelers on the passenger boats and buses leaving Chongqing for towns along the river and interior counties like Kaixian and Liangping are on their way to visit their lao jia, their family's town of origin, a place they may have left for university or which their grandparents fled in wartime.

2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241:

China’s official Xinhua news agency said the deaths occurred when two primary schools toppled in Liangping county of Chongqing, a municipality of 30 million that neighbours Sichuan.

2008 May 12, Lindsay Beck, Guo Shipeng, Darren Schuettler, “China quake kills 5 children, injures over 100”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-10-13, World News:

After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.

2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-11-04, Travel:


Fuling

In 1097 his teachings were prohibited, his land was confiscated, and he was banished to Fu-chou Prefecture (modern Fu-ling County in Szechuan).

[1967, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works Chinese Series), New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxx:

Carved stone inscriptions at Fuling, Szechuan, record low water levels in 72 different years beginning with A.D. 764.

1976 August, Nai Hsia, “New Archaeological Finds Enrich Study of Early Science”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 3:

Pictures of fish carved on stone and inscriptions recording the conditions of the Yangtze during drought years were found by archaeologists on White Crane Ridge in Fuling county of Szechwan province.

1977 August, L. Y. K., “Archaeology and Yangtze Development Scheme”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 8, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

I CAME TO FULING on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing.

2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:

“All we knew was the code name 816,” said Li Tingyong, a local resident and later head of the Fuling tourism bureau, in a 2010 television program about the 816 plant. “But we had no idea what it was a code name for. It was very mysterious.”

2017 January 24, Amy Qin, “A Chinese Nuclear Site, Hidden in a Mountain, Is Reborn as a Tourist Draw”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-25, Asia Pacific:


Sansha

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三沙 (Sānshā, literally “three sands”), from its three component areas of 中沙 (Zhōngshā, literally “central sand (Zhongsha)”), 南沙 (Nánshā, literally “south sand (Nansha)”), and 西沙 (Xīshā, literally “west sand (Xisha)”).

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In 2007 Beijing established the new Sansha municipality in Hainan Province, which has jurisdiction over three islets that Vietnam claims in the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos. This led to large-scale protest demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi.

2009, Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 294:

As recently as June 2012, Vietnam passed a maritime law reasserting its sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands and delimiting its maritime claims for both.²²⁰ On the same day, in response to this challenge to its claimed sovereignty, China upgraded the status of Sansha City. Vietnam and the Philippines expectedly protested but, unusually, so did the United States.²²¹

2014 June, Clarence J. Bouchat, The Paracel Islands and U.S. Interests and Approaches in the South China Sea, Carlisle, PA: United States Army War College Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:

The PRC has also used lawfare to bolster its territorial claims in the South China Sea by designating the village of Sansha, located on the disputed Paracel Islands, as a Hainan Prefecture in an attempt to extend PRC control far into the region.

2020, Kerry K. Gershaneck, Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting”, Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:

On Saturday it said it had established an administrative district on the Paracel islands and another on the Spratly islands. The two districts are under the control of China’s Sansha city, according to China Global Television Network.
“The establishment of the so-called Sansha City and related activities seriously violated Vietnam’s sovereignty,” Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said in a statement.

2020 April 19, “Vietnam protests Beijing's expansion in disputed South China Sea”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-04-20:

A prefecture-level city of Hainan, China.


Sansha

From Mandarin 三沙 (Sānshā) Wade–Giles romanization: San¹-sha¹, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

Sansha Bay, 62 miles north of Foochow, is one of the good harbors on the China coast. It has deep water and is surrounded on all sides by steep precipices.

1945 May, Notes on the China Coast, volume XIV, number 5, →OCLC, page 22:

Shelter port on Fukien coast The Sansha [phonetic] storm shelter port in Hsiapu County, Fukien, was completed in September after several years' work.

1963, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, number 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 30:

In order to receive the Taiwan fishermen compatriots, the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee in early 1978 formally established these reception stations at the four fishing ports of Sansha in Xiapu [Hsiapu],[...]The Sansha reception station in Xiapu received 12 Taiwan fishing boats in 1978 and everytime^([sic]) helped repair the boats and engines, provided fuel and drinking water and purchased grain, meat, vegetables and other foods before they departed.

1979, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 12-22, →ISSN, →OCLC:

I once went to the farther north coast of Fujian Province, our province's northeast part, Sansha Town of Xiapu County, (三沙镇，霞浦县) where, off the coast, the sea water in some place is bluer than it is here. At that time in Sansha Town, after I saw the blue water and an islet which emerges from the blue sea, so bleak, so solitary that I dreamed a fantastic dream at night: I was like a fish in the deep, unfathomable blue.

2015, 高坚辉 [Jianhui Gao], Stories from Fujian, China, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Boats are moored to take shelter in waters off Sansha town in Xiapu county in southeastern China's Fujian province on Monday.

2020 August 4, “Typhoon Hagupit hits east China and heads towards Shanghai”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2020-08-04:


Rongchang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榮昌／荣昌 (Róngchāng).

The Szechuan people's struggle against the activities of the imperialist aggressors in the church had a long history.[…]The people who took part in the uprising, however, broke into the Jungchang County prison and released him.

[1964, Wu Yu-chang [吳玉章], “The Uprising Led by Yu Tung-chen and the Yi Ho Tuan Movement”, in The Revolution of 1911 [辛亥革命], 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 46-47:

Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.

2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere:

A campus violence case was heard in the court of Rongchang District, Chongqing, in which a female student was beaten to Grade 10 disability by five roommates because she was untidy.

2021, Dongping Yang, “Toward Educational Modernization: Strengthening Institutions and Increasing Capacity”, in Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development, volume 5, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:


Hechuan

Translingual: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 合川 (Héchuān).

"Hello, hello, hello! What? Hochuan? This is Peipei. Planes over Hochuan? Toward Peipei? No, not here. ... Bombing heard? Where, southward?" Then the man would hang up and turn the crank again, and shout to Chungking or some other place, "Peipei calling, planes over Hochuan, toward Peipei, Peipei." Very soon we would hear planes over our heads.

[1941, Anor Lin, “Sung Dugout”, in Dawn Over Chungking, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 87:

On September 12, a man named Xiao Gang (pseudonym) was walking along BinjiangLu in Hechuan District, Chongqing when he was suddenly grabbed and forced into an abandoned home on the side of the road and sexually assaulted by Xiao Yong (pseudonym).

2014 October 10, Yang Xin, “Outcry as Rapist Walks Free”, in Beijing Today, number 696, →OCLC, page 1:

China Fortune Land Development Co Ltd :
* Says it signs MoU with Chongqing Hechuan district government and Kunshan Bacheng government

2017 April 7, “BRIEF-China Fortune Land Development signs MoU with local governments”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-16:


Qijiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綦江 (Qíjiāng).

In Szechwan UY housing was defined as "a long-term item of capital construction."¹¹⁴ A provincial conference was held in 1973 on the financial problems of UY settlement, in which the county authorities were evidently asked to supply building materials, for the same report goes on to say that "Chichiang County CCP Committee has provided 300 cubic meters of timber for the educated youths to build houses."¹¹⁵

[1973 October 30 [1973 October 29], Radio Chengtu, “Settlement of Young People Underway in Szechwan Countryside”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 209, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 4; republished as “Adapting to Rural Life: Problems and Remedies”, in Thomas P. Bernstein, editor, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 154-155:

Six miners escaped Tuesday's accident in Qijiang county, an official at the Chongqing coal mine administration bureau told Reuters. Thirteen were killed and one was missing.

2003 October 29, “13 dead in China mine accident”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-04-29:

On October 26, 2011, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality instructed the People's Court of Qijiang District to enforce rulings on the case. The People's Court of Qijiang District issued an announcement on December 30, 2011, requiring the tenant to vacate the premises.

2022, L. Jia, “Chongqing Aosi Lidu Entertainment Co., Ltd.”, in Selected Cases from the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, volume 3, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88:


Tongliang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅梁 (Tóngliáng).

Because the hamlet was the home of one of the few priests in eastern Sichuan, Catholics from as far away as Chongqing and the neighboring districts of Yongchuan, Tongliang, He Zhou, and Fu Zhou came to the hamlet seeking Gu to receive sacraments and to participate in worship.[...]The Ma family had migrated to nearby Baxian, the Qius to Fu Zhou, and the Songs to Tongliang.

1996, Robert E. Entenmann, “Catholics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 13, 21:

On April 1, 2008, the Tongliang county water authority in Chongqing, southwest China, approved Zhu Jiaping’s application for water usage.

2012, Jigang Zhou, Peng Guangcan, Ceng Zhen, “China's Water Crisis May Be Helped by Trading Water Rights”, in Noah Berlatsky, editor, Water, Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

In 2020, Liu and his partner began painting walls free of charge and full of love and passion. Their first works were painted on the walls of an ancient town in Tongliang District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. In about three months, they finished seven mural paintings.

2022 April 8, “Muralists decorate countryside with creativity, passion”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2022-04-08:


Shapingba

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沙坪垻／沙坪坝 (Shāpíngbà).

The Institute is re-orienting its program and will endeavor to carry on its training and research along lines originally planned for, though modified by such exigencies as the present national crisis has brought forth. Communications with the Institute may be directed to Shapingpa, Chungking, China.

[1938 December, “Current Items”, in American Sociological Review, volume 3, number 6, American Sociological Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 879:

In the movement to criticize Lin and Confucius, they have seriously read Marxist-Leninist works and Chairman Mao's works. Little Red Soldiers of (Shapingpa) district of Chungking have studied the party's basic line, Chairman Mao's "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" and 7 May directive, and the three main rules of discipline and eight points for attention.

[1974 June 4 [1974 May 31], “Szechwan Little Red Soldiers Join in Criticism of Lin, Confucius”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 108, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 1:

One day I called on a cousin of mine who teaches at the Chongqing Normal College, about 20 miles from downtown. The district, known as Shapingba, has a concentration of eight universities and colleges.

1979 May, Gerald Chen, “'Pilgrimage' to Sichuan”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

The tragedy came during a promotion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the store in Shapingba district in southwest China.
People began queuing in the early hours of Saturday to buy the cooking oil, said Gao Chang, a spokesman for the Shapingba district government.

2007 November 10, “Three killed in stampede in China supermarket”, in Giles Elgood, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-25, World News:


Jiangbei

/ˈd͡ʒɑŋˌbeɪ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江北 (Jiāngběi).

Eight areas had been set aside, he said, for the reception of these refugees in Chungking and Chiangpei, a neighboring town actoss the Kialiang River, a tributary of the Yangtse.

[1938 June 18, “Growing U.S. Sympathy for China Seen in Mounting Contributions for Relief”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 85, number 3, →OCLC, page 84, column 2:

In 1891 she had an urgent message from the chief magistrate in the city of Chiangpei, opposite Chungking at the mouth of the Chialing river. His wife was seriously ill, but he would only allow a woman to help. The city gates were kept open late for her, a special four-bearer chair, with runners ahead to clear the way, swept her through the streets; but it was too late, and although the magistrate was persuaded to let a fully qualified male doctor come, his wife died, and the already strong anti-foreign feeling in Chiangpei was strengthened by the belief that the foreign medicines had killed her.

[1988, Charles Tyzack, “The Liverpool of West China”, in Friends to China: The Davidson Brothers and the Friends' Mission to China 1886 to 1939, York, England: William Sessions Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

Cab drivers in Chongqing, China’s fourth-largest city, staged a rare strike Monday in protest against a series of gripes ranging from the scarcity of fuel to heavy traffic fines, Xinhua news agency said.
Three police cars and more than a dozen other vehicles were smashed by a crowd of about 100 people in the city’s Jiangbei district, the agency said.

2008 November 3, Beijing newsroom, “China city's stressed-out cabbies go on strike”, in Nick Macfie, Paul Tait, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-09, Lifestyle:

On April 2, 2010, the People's Procuratorate of Jiangbei District, Chongqing, initiated a public prosecution of Li Zhuang to the People's Court of Jiangbei District, Chongqing, for the alleged crime of impairing testimony as defender. On April 28, 2011, the People's Court of Jiangbei District, Chongqing decided not to sue Li Zhuang and announced the decision to Li Zhuang.

2016, Jiang Ping, “Dilemma and Breakthrough for China's Rule of Law: Reflection on Several Issues About the Legal System Construction of China”, in Jian Ping, editor, Dreams And Reality: New Era Of China's Reform, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:


Langao

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

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

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

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

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


Baihe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Shiquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石泉.

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

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

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

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


Fengdu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Dianjiang

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

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

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

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

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


Dadukou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大渡口 (Dàdùkǒu).

A louse survey was made among students of primary schools and orphanages in the latter part of March, 1944, at Tatukou area outside Chungking. A total of 1,255 students were examined with 530 girls and 716 boys.[…]
For the sake of convenience, and because of the seriousness of the malaria situation in the area, Tatukou on the outskirts of Chungking was chosen as the site for demonstration.[…]
The survey was followed up by a study of the topography of Tatukou and disease-transmitting mosquitoes in the district.

[1944 November, “Public Health and Medicine”, in China Handbook 1937-1944, Chungking: Chinese Ministry of Information, →OCLC, page 404, column 2:

In the 1930s and 1940s, people from the same province tended to stick together in Chongqing. We moved to Dadukou, about twenty miles from the city, where many people from the Jiangxi Province lived during the war.

2010, Danke Li, Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:

Agile has bought a 119,287-square-metre parcel in Dadukou District at an auction to replenish its land bank in Chongqing, the company said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late Tuesday.

2012 May 8, Alex Frew McMillan, “Agile buys site in Chongqing to replenish land bank”, in Ryan Woo, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-31:

The unnamed burglar twisted his ankle while leaping from the third-floor balcony of a flat to a second-floor landing and then to the ground after a man living in the property in the Dadukou district of Chongqing came home while he was inside on Monday evening,[…]

2016 July 21, Natalie Mu, “Chinese burglary suspect ‘confesses’ after woman victim massages his injured ankle”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-22, China:


Tongnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潼南 (Tóngnán).

A search and rescue operation was launched by the local authorities in Tongnan district, which continued through the night.

2020 June 22, “China: 8 children drown in river near Chongqing”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2020-06-22:

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Chongqing on Thursday morning to assess conditions, visiting the village of Shuangba in Tongnan district, where flooded fields and houses have affected the livelihood of more than 8,000 people there.

2020 August 20, Phoebe Zhang, “Chinese megacity Chongqing braces for record flood”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-20, People & Culture:

In April 2019, at China (Chongqing)-Hungary Automotive Innovation Forum, People's Government of Chongqing Tongnan District and Clive Industrial Design Co., Ltd. held the signing ceremony of “Intelligent Terminal Product Production Project", which was the implementation of the first industrialization project.

2021, 新阶段中国—中东欧国家合作：多维视角的分析 [The China-CEEC Cooperation at the New Stage : A Multi-Dimensional Analysis], China Social Sciences Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GGNgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT436:

The assessment of cultivated land ecological risk in Tongnan district of Chongqing city before and after the farmland consolidation for agricultural mechanization, as well as the analysis of the correlation between ecological risk and cultivated land slope, demonstrate that the farmland consolidation for agricultural mechanization can reduce cultivated land ecological risk, and the proportion of cultivated land slope can be an important basis for precision guidance in the farmland consolidation for agricultural mechanization.

2024 May, Zhang Xingshan [张星山], Yang Heng [杨恒], Ma Wenqiu [马雯秋], Yang Minli [杨敏丽], Wang Haiyi [王海翼], You Yong [尤泳], Hui Yunting [惠云婷], Gong Zeqi [宫泽奇], Wang Tianyi [王天一], “Ecological Risk Assessment of Cultivated Land Based on Landscape Pattern: A Case Study of Tongnan District, Chongqing [基于景观格局的丘陵山区耕地生态风险评价——以重庆市潼南区为例]”, in Smart Agriculture [智慧农业（中英文）], volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68:


Zhenba

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ningshan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ankang

The Shensi Provincial Government has approved the plan of its Provincial Department of Reconstruction for the building of a highway to connect Sian city with Tsoshui, Chen-an and Ankang, in southeastern Shensi and another road from Shang-hsien past Ankang to link up with the Sian-Chingtsukwan and Hanyin-Paiho Highways. Survey work is to be started soon.

1934 August 11, The China Weekly Review, volume 69, number 11, →OCLC, page 432, column 2:

The Han Shui valley in the extreme south, with the subregional towns of Hanchung and Ankang, and the entire northern section of Shensi remain without rail transportation.

1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230:

Hornet attacks have been reported elsewhere in China as well. Last month, a swarm attacked a primary school in the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China, injuring 30 people, including 23 children. But the most serious attacks, according to the state-run news media, have taken place in rural areas near Ankang City, in the southeastern part of Shaanxi Province.

2013 October 3, “Giant Hornets Kill Dozens in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-10-06, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.


Dazu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大足 (Dàzú).

Similarly there had been a break in the supply of small hardware from Tatsu county to its traditional markets in Tahsien, Mienyang, and Wenchiang, which was now restored as a result of the exchange fair.

[1967, Gargi Dutt, “Recent Developments, 1963-64”, in Rural Communes in China, Organizational Problems, New York: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, page 174:

A new chapter in the study of Chinese sculpture in the Sung Dynasty opened with the discovery of the Mai-chi-shan caves already referred to and the publication of a little-known sculptured cliff at Ta-tsu in Szechwan, dating chiefly from the Sung. The lively realism of the Ta-tsu high relief figures, some of which resemble the clay figures at Mai-chi-shan, others reminiscent of mediaeval European sculpture, is further proof that beside the courtly and scholarly arts for which the Sung is famous there flourished a vigorous school of popular Buddhist art of a very different character.

[1973, Michael Sullivan, “Sung Dynasty (960-1279)”, in Chinese Art: Recent Discoveries, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:

The year 1898 brought uprisings of the Tien Ti Hui (Heaven and Earth Society), a popular anti-Ching secret organization in Kwangsi Province, and of the peasants in Tatsu County, Szechuan.

[1976, Compilation Group for the "History of Modern China" Series [《中国近代史丛书》编写组], “Unprecedented National Crisis”, in The Yi Ho Tuan Movement of 1900 [义和团运动], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 13:

Emei Shan is one of Buddhism’s four sacred mountains, while Baoding Shan (Precious Mountain) at Dazu is one of China’s four great centers of Buddhist sculpture. These sacred carvings are located in Sichuan Province in western China, in Dazu District, about halfway between the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing.

1998, J. D. Brown, Frommer's China: The 50 Most Memorable Trips (Frommer's), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:

Dazu District is located in the west of Chongqing, 55 km away from the central downtown of Chongqing in the east and 155 km away from Chengdu in the west. Dazu has been world-known for the world cultural heritage Dazu Rock Carvings.

2022 March 31, “A Creative Slogan Worths 100,000 Yuan - Dazu of Chongqing solicits promotional slogans from all over the world”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:


Xunyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旬陽／旬阳.

In (Chialu) commune, Hsunyang County, the summer grain procurement quota has been overfulfilled. In addition, 66 production teams in the commune have put grain aside for reserves.

[1971 July 15 [1971 July 13], “Shensi Peasants Fulfill Farm Procurement Quotas”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 136, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

Minghsing Brigade of Changsha Commune in Hsunyang County, Shensi Province, has encouraged amateur literary and art activities for about a decade.

[1973, “New Upsurge of Mass Literature and Art”, in Chinese Literature, number 7, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 104:

Local authorities sometimes are brutal in their efforts to crush the underground Christian church in peasant areas. In March 1993, for example, police attacked a religious meeting in Taoyuan village in Shaanxi Province’s Xunyang County.

1994, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 475:

Streets and buildings were submerged by floodwaters in Xunyang in northwestern China on September 28, 2021, after heavy torrential rains lashed the area in Shaanxi province. Firefighters and army troops have been helping as more than 7,000 people were forced to evacuate. Xunyang is home to about 450,000 residents.

2021 September 29, Carol Mang, “More than 7,000 people forced to flee floods in city of Xunyang in northwestern China”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2021-09-30:

A county-level city in Ankang, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.


Hanbin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 漢濱／汉滨.

Shaanxi's Huazhang Daily newspaper said the wasps had been attacking people in the Ankang region since 2002. Hundreds had been stung and at least 30 had died.
Local police and firemen teams are being deployed to track and destroy the pests, but no significant improvement had been made because there were no wasp experts in the region, the newspaper said.
Some people said the problem was worse this year. In the Hanbin district alone this year, five villagers have been killed by the wasps, while the number of hives has increased from one in 2002 to more than 40 this year.

2005 November 1, Minnie Chan, “Wasp attacks kill 10 farmers in Shaanxi”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-18:

The second evaluation also looked at NCMS payment reform and took place in the Hanbin District of Shaanxi Province. In 2010, Hanbin District launched a reform of NCMS payment methods, replacing the fee-for-service with prospective payment with a global budget for outpatient care and mixed payment methods for inpatient care.

2017, Mo Yu, Xiaoyan He, Yunxin Hou, Xue Li, “Lessons Learned from Evaluating China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme”, in Building Capacities to Evaluate Health Inequities: Some Lessons Learned from Evaluation Experiments in China, India and Chile, number 154, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:

Finally, the regional green poverty reduction effect was divided by the method of inter group connection and Chebyshev distance, to directly display the green poverty reduction effect of counties in southern Shaanxi. The results showed there was only Hanbin district as the dominant area for poverty alleviation and development, Zhenba County was the dominant area for economic and green development, and the other counties were all under the pressure of green development. Overall, the effect of green poverty reduction in southern Shaanxi was still not ideal.

2020, Yingjuan Yang, Huifeng Xue, “Evaluation of Green Poverty Reduction in Southern Shaanxi Based on Comprehensive Weighting TOPSIS-Clustering Analysis”, in 2020 16th Dahe Fortune China Forum and Chinese High-educational Management Annual Academic Conference (DFHMC), →DOI, page 128:

The Hanbin district police department in Shaanxi's Ankang city said on May 19 that it had fined a local man 500 yuan for scaling the Great Firewall, a complex systems of blocks, filters and human censorship that limits what Chinese users can see online.

2020 May 21, Gao Feng, “Fine For VPN Use Sparks Rare Backlash on Chinese Internet”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2020-05-21:


Beibei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北碚 (Běibèi).

"Hello, hello, hello! What? Hochuan? This is Peipei. Planes over Hochuan? Toward Peipei? No, not here. ... Bombing heard? Where, southward?" Then the man would hang up and turn the crank again, and shout to Chungking or some other place, "Peipei calling, planes over Hochuan, toward Peipei, Peipei." Very soon we would hear planes over our heads.

[1941, Anor Lin, “Sung Dugout”, in Dawn Over Chungking, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 87:

2. Szechwan, Peipei, a town north of Chungking, has been selected as a model district for the creation of independent farmers. With the cooperation of the Municipal Bureau of Peipei, land survey has been completed and plans have been made for the establishment of farm units to be given to the farmers after the completion of procedures for land expropriation.

[1943, The Chinese Ministry of Information, “Agricultural Economy”, in Hollington Tong, editor, China Handbook 1937–1943: A Comprehensive Survey of Major Developments in China in Six Years of War, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 619, columns 1–2:

Jinyun Mountain Scenic Area is located along the banks of the Jialang River at Wentang Gorge in the Beibei District, 37 miles from downtown Chongqing.

2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:

Mao Jianping, the deputy director of the municipal procuratorate, and Zhao Wenrui, the head of the Beibei district, were detained at the same time on suspicion of conspiring to protect Chongqing’s network of gangsters.

2012, Andrew Wedeman, Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 169:

Late last year, graphic video footage of the party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district in a rendezvous with a young woman was widely circulated on the Chinese internet. The official, Lei Zhengfu, was later sacked.

2013 January 25, Lucy Hornby, “China busts sex video blackmailers who targeted officials”, in Jon Hemming, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-22, World News:

On May 16, 2013, the government in Xiema Town in Beibei District, Chongqing, had over 100 police officers forcibly demolish my home. My mother was injured so badly that she’s now in the hospital.

2013 June 16, Flourishing Musical Goddess_76635, quotee, “Chinese Voice Anger and Nostalgia Over Urbanization”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-11, Asia Pacific:


Hanyin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Jiulongpo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 九龍坡／九龙坡 (Jiǔlóngpō).

In February 2005 the developer appealed to the Jiulongpo District Housing Administration Bureau for permission to demolish the building.

2009, 申宏磊 [Sheng Honglei], “Link II: Chongqing's "Nail Household"”, in 李洋 [Li Yang] et al., transl., 新闻发布与阳光执政 [Press Release & Sunshine Government], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:

A store in the Jiulongpo district was caught by a local market regulator selling smoked tea ducks using the meat.

2011 March 12, Melanie Lee, “Wal-Mart apologizes for duck meat past expiry date in China”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-09-20, CYCLICAL CONSUMER GOODS:


Zhenping

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

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

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


Zhenping

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

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

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


Lüeyang

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

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

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

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

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


Bishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 璧山 (Bìshān).

These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions.

[1940, “Report of Work in China”, in The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1939, New York, page 363:

When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."

[1979, Lynn T. White III, “Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, editors, Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102:

The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

2018 December 18, Tom Daly, “China agriculture ministry confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Chongqing”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-20, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:

In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.

2020, Namrata Goswami, Peter A. Garretson, Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:


Pengshui

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭水 (Péngshuǐ).

Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.

1949 November 15, Strong, “The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1949, volume VII, Chungking: Government Printing Office, published 1978, →OCLC, page 596:

In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.

2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211:

Dr Balakrishnan said in a separate post that both leaders had a fruitful discussion on bilateral relations, and discussed regional and global developments in a post-coronavirus world.
They also witnessed a cheque presentation ceremony for a charity project initiated by the Singaporean community in China to help alleviate poverty in Chongqing's Pengshui County.

2020 August 21, Linette Lai, “China's top diplomat calls on PM Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Heng Swee Keat during visit”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 2020-08-21:

A Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.


Liuba

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

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

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

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

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


Lintong

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

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

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

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

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


Chenggu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城固.

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

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

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

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

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

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


Linyou

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

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

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

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


Changshou

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃoʊ/

"The refinery will be in Changshou (district), and investment will be $3 billion. CNPC is working with us," Huang said.

2007 October 15, Huang Qifan, quotee, “China's Chongqing plans 10 mln t/year CNPC refinery”, in Reuters:

Heavenly-blessed Changshou, a book on travel, culture & history compiled by the members of the CPPCC of Changshou District, is original in conception, accurate in content, informative with both text & photos, detailed and concise. This book provides a systematic introduction to the natural sceneries, history & culture, folk customs and eco-environment of Changshou, which is exhaustive & fascinating and serves as a historical reference, and displays collectively the tourism culture of Changshou for the first time.

2013, Zhang Mingsheng et al., editors, 天赐长寿 [Heavenly-blessed Changshou], Beijing Book Co. Inc., →ISBN:


Huyi

In Shijing town in Xi’an’s Huyi district, authorities tore down a Catholic church at the end of December, sparking a protest by around 300 church followers who gathered later in front of district government offices with banners calling for the right to religious freedom, local sources said.

2018 January 8, Qiao Long, Richard Finney, “Chinese Authorities Demolish One Church, Close Another, in December”, in Chen Ping, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2018-01-09:

To improve our understanding of PTE accumulation in peripheral areas of cities, soil samples from different parts of Huyi District, Xi’an city were collected, and the concentrations of As, Pb, V, Cr, Cu, Mn, Co, and Zn were determined through X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.

2021 August 23, Xiuduan Chen, Xinwei Lu, “Contamination characteristics and source apportionment of potentially toxic elements in the topsoil of Huyi District, Xi’an City, China”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 80, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

I want to put into relief here one single aspect of that which creates the abyss between us and the villagers of Huxian⁴: Chinese women, the Chinese family, their tradition, their present revolution.

2022, Kerry Brown, Gemma Chenger Deng, “Feminine China: Julia Kristeva”, in China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter, World Scientific, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:


Weiyang

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

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

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

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

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

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


Taibai

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

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

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

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

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


Shangnan

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

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

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

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

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

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


Nanzheng

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Qianyang

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

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

[1971 August 20 [1971 August 14], “Shensi Water Conservancy”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 162, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

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

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

大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗

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

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


Linwei

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

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

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

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

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

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


Chencang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陳倉／陈仓 (Chéncāng).

Ch’en-ts'ang, an ancient name for Tang Feng-hsiang, the modern Pao-chi (Precious Pheasant) county, Shensi. The name derives from the story Wei alludes to: In ancient times, Duke Wen of Ch'in was hunting at Ch'en-ts’ang and encountered the magic bird on the north slope of Ch'en-ts'ang Mountain. It seemed like a stone and was the color of liver. When he returned, he sacrificed to it. It was thought to come from the southeast and possessed a voice like thunder which made all the wild pheasants call.

[1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:

A gold tiger fitting from Weijiaya, Chencang District, Baoji City, dating to the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), has decorative spirals on its haunches very much like many of the animals found in Early La Tène contexts—the dogs on the rim of the Basse-Yutz flagons and the hybrid creature on the lid of the jug in Grave 2 at the Glauberg, for example.

2012, Peter S. Wells, “Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns”, in How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 204:

The main objective of this study was to apply a statistical (information value) model using geographic information system (GIS) to the Chencang District of Baoji, China.

2014 March 27, Wei Chen et al., “Landslide susceptibility mapping based on GIS and information value model for the Chencang District of Baoji, China”, in Arabian Journal of Geosciences, volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC:

He Zun, an early Western Zhou bronze vessel was unearthed from Jiacun Town, Baoji prefecture in Shaanxi Province (now known as Chencang District of Baoji) in 1963.

2022, Qingzhu Liu, “Archaeological Discoveries and Studies About the Ancient Capitals”, in Jing He, transl., A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation, Springer, Sichuan People's Publishing House, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 216:


Gaoling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Wangyi

A district of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.


Shangzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 商州.

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

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

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

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

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

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


Baqiao

/ˌbɑːˈt͡ʃjaʊ/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Fengxiang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Ningqiang

/ˌnɪŋˈt͡ʃjɑŋ/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Jintai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金台 (Jīntái).

Among the 922 cases investigated as listed in Table 5, 43.28 percent had second births within two years, and 67.03 percent within three years. And those who had second births when their first born children were only one year old accounted for 15.47 percent in Yang County, 30 percent in Yanchuan County, 15.68 percent in Mizhi County, and 20.41 percent in Jintai District of Baoji.

1986, Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey, with Analysis, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 353:

In Baoji Prefecture, Fengxiang, Qishan, Longxian, Qianyang, Meixian and Linyou counties as well as the Jintai and Weibin districts of Baoji City all hold large and small spring welcoming carnivals after the Spring Festival.

1997 January, Shi Baoxiu, “Celebrating Spring and the New Year - the Traditional Way”, in China Tourism, number 198, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:

In this category, there is also Donglingcun 东岭村, a village of the Chencang Town 陈仓镇 of Jintai District 金台区 of Baoji 宝鸡 City of Shaanxi 陕西 Province which is a replica of Huaxicun in western China.

2015, Tan Chung, Himalaya Calling: The Origins of China and India, World Century Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 311:

Prior to the Experimental Zones, Jintai District of Baoji City in Shaanxi Province became a pilot zone for the scheme.[…]
Zhang Hongsheng is a villager in Dahuashu^([sic – meaning Dahuaishu]) Village in Panlong Town of Jintai District. When his son was due to marry, he was prepared for a big operation.

2021 April 12, Frank Hossack, “Vulgar Marriage Customs to be Outlawed by Nanjing District”, in The Nanjinger, SinoConnexion Ltd., archived from the original on 2021-04-12:


Baishui

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

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

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

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

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


Chengcheng

/t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

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

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

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

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

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

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


Pucheng

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

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

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

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

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

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


Huazhou

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

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

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

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


Huazhou

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

A villager selects Chinese prickly ashes at Daming Town of Huazhou District in Weinan City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, July 30, 2020. Local authorities encourage Chinese prickly ash planting in Huazhou District and help farmers raise their income.

2020 July 31, “Chinese prickly ash planting encouraged in Weinan City, NW China to help farmers raise income”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2020-08-01:

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


Hantai

Qi Jianwen, the chief inspector of the Hanzhong Public Security Bureau and head of its party discipline committee, personally met with police in Hantai District, who reportedly issued a decision on November 4 to revoke the residential surveillance order against Han, stating that the 'investigation had concluded' (Huashang News, 2009; Zhou Ze, 2009).

2013, Joshua D. Rosenzweig, “Resolving the 'endless narrative': criminal defamation and expression rights in China”, in Mike McConville, Eva Pils, editors, Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, sourced from Huashang News (2009), “Twists and Turns in Hanzhong Defamation Case’ [Yibo sanzhe de hanzhong ‘feibang’an’), Huashang News [Huashang Bao], 12 August, available at http://hsb.hsw.cn/2009-08/12/content_7421548.htm (accessed 1 April 2011).; Zhou, Ze (2009), ‘After Filing Appeal, Defendant in Hanzhong “Internet Defamation Case” Mysteriously Withdraws It’ [Hanzhong ‘wangluo feibang’an’ beigao shangsu hou qiqiao chesu], in Zhou Ze Discusses Cases and Explains the Law (blog), 8 December, available at http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4bdb1fa00100gnth.html (accessed 30 March 2011)., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 380–381:

Tourists play in the flower field in Xujiaying village of Laojun town in Hantai district of Hanzhong city, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, March 23, 2018.

2018 March 24, “People enjoy blossoms across China”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

In April 2010 he was appointed pastor of West Street Cathedral, in the Hantai district. In December 2015 he became a member of the Catholic Provincial Committee ("the two sessions": Patriotic Association and Council of Bishops).
In 2012, and in 2017, he was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Consultative Political Conference in the district of Ren Hantai. On 11 April 2019, he was chosen as bishop of the Diocese of Hanzhong.

2019 August 28, “China, second bishop consecrated under Sino-Holy See agreement”, in Vatican News, archived from the original on 2019-09-15:

It is unknown how the mechanism of land use affects the landscape pattern at different scales. The Hantai District, a typical human settlement in the mountain area in Shaanxi, China, was chosen as the study area.

2021 February 20, Lei Wang, Lian Wu, Wei Zhang, “Impacts of land use change on landscape patterns in mountain human settlement: The case study of Hantai District (Shaanxi, China)”, in Journal of Mountain Science, volume 18, →DOI, archived from the original on 2022-02-01:


Yanta

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.

It was an unusual case for Yanta District People’s Intermediate Court in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 25. The suspect was standing in court wearing a white mask and rubber gloves and the bailiffs were keeping their distance. It was because the defendant, Mu, had AIDS.

2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today, number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:

It’s cloudy at dusk at the Xi’an Huoche Zhan, 6:40PM Monday evening, when they step out into the night.[…]
FONG takes them to his cousin’s Hupan Hostel, a 1980s row house conversion in the Yanta District.[…]
The Xi’an gang driver, Jinfeng, follows Henry FONG with DONG ZhiWei and WEI ZengJiu in a black Brilliance.

2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:

On Sunday, Xi'an announced that two senior Communist Party officials from the Yanta district had been removed from their posts, according to local media, in a bid to "strengthen the work of epidemic prevention and control" in the area.

2022 January 3, “China removes two officials in locked-down Xi'an”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-01-03:

Officials have been put on notice that they will lose their jobs if they don’t bring the numbers of new cases down. Already, the top two Communist Party officials in Yanta district, where half the city’s cases have been recorded, have been sacked and the deputy mayor placed in charge.

2022 January 4, Ken Moritsugu, “Conditions hard for 13 million under China virus lockdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-01-04:


Lianhu

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

蓮湖／莲湖 (Liánhú)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Yaozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 耀州.

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

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

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

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


Mizhi

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

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

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


Beilin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北林 (Běilín).

The Chinese state news media identified the man as the deputy director of a government poverty alleviation agency in the Beilin district of Suihua, a city in Heilongjiang Province.[…]
Government offices in the city of Suihua and the district of Beilin, as well as the Beilin district police, did not respond to requests for comment.

2021 April 14, Tiffany May, “Her Boss Sent Harassing Texts. So She Beat Him With a Mop.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-14, Asia Pacific:

A district of Suihua, Heilongjiang, China.


Beilin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 碑林 (Bēilín).

Downtown Xi'an is divided between two districts, Beilin and Lianhu. The vibrant Beilin District comprises the core downtown area within the city wall and some territory east and south of it. Beilin has more than it: fair share of ancient sites, but it's modern as well, home to upscale malls high-end hotels, and 17 universities.

2006, Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 390:

A gathering place for intellectuals in the past, the antique bookstore located in Xi’an’s Beilin District has become a part of the life of some old local residents and an almost spiritual place among intellectuals. Covering about 900 square meters, the bookstore also collects and preserves old books.

2020 October 14, Information Office of Xi'an Municipal Government, “A city steeped in literary tradition is writing a new chapter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-22, #Paid Content:


Jingbian

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

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

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