Shaptul

Farther on we passed the villages of Kazan Kul and Shaptul ; a weekly market is held at the latter.
"Beyond Fyzabad habitations became scarcer, and ceased altogether at Yengi Awat, forty-six miles from Kashgar.

1876, Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 69:

Officials in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county recently told RFA that they had been ordered to send 40 percent of area residents to re-education camps, and said they were having trouble meeting the quota.
Authorities in Peyziwat’s Shaptul township have said they were informed at an online staff meeting in June that 80 percent of people arrested there were to be “severely punished,” or jailed.
Reports suggest similar orders have been given in other areas of the region, and that authorities are detaining as many Uyghurs as possible in re-education camps and jail, regardless of their age, prior service to the Communist Party, or the severity of the accusations against them.

2017 October 31, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur ‘Political Criminals’ Jailed Without Trial in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture”, in Alim Seytoff, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2017-11-01:

In Shaptul Township, farmers had not yet received their land contracts, and since this situation and farmer's conditions did not see any significant change betwen the two fieldworks, in 2012 the research team decided to choose a random sample of farmers for informal interviews, even if their contracts had not been distributed yet.

2020, Alessandra Cappelletti, Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Disparities and Power Struggle in China's North-West, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 244:

But a Communist Party cadre in Peyziwat’s Shaptul township told RFA on Feb. 17 that area roads had been closed off and local officials have been too busy to bring supplies to families confined to their homes as part of the quarantine there, which went into effect on Jan. 23.

2020 February 26, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur Former Detainee of Xinjiang Internment Camp Denied Treatment Amid Coronavirus Quarantine”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2020-02-27:

A town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township


Yengimehelle

From Uyghur يېڭىمەھەللە (yë'ngimehelle).

The group was set up at the end of January to assist police in their investigation into the flag-burning incident that occurred at Xaniqa mosque in the county’s Yengimehelle township.

2015 April 16, Shohret Hoshur, Roseanne Gerin, “Police Conduct Raids in Xinjiang a Year After Flag Burning at Mosque”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2015-10-24:

A town in Xayar, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.


Aqal

Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria 5+ males holding territory in a popular grove in Aqal town. Described as rare in China (Cheng 1987).

1992, R. Grimmett, H. Taylor, “Recent bird observations from Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, 16 June to 5 July 1988”, in Forktail, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 146:

Separated by the line from Aksu, through Aqal to Markit, a suite of varicoloured mudstone, silty mudstone and sandy conglomerate interbeds with intercalations of andesite, basalt and dacite outcrops in the east, and in the west there is a set of granular carbonate and grey-back sandy mudstone interbeds with the[…]

1996, Field Trip Guide: Stratigraphy, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Petroleum and Coal Geology, volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1112-10:

At Aqal, the Middle Ordovician Qilang and Yingan formations are c. 320 m thick, but are completely absent in the Mystery Canyon, 100 km to the west.

2009, Sebastian Turner, Structural Evolution of the Northwest Tarim Basin, China, Imperial College London, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-02, page 64:

A town in Kalpin, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township


Aqyar

Mehmut Memet, 23, and his mother, Ayturem Hudesh, went missing from their home township of Aqyar, in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Uchturpan (Wushi) county, in 2017, Mehmut’s Turkey-based sister Zeytune Memet recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service.

2020 March 18, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Missing Uyghur Brothers Confirmed Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2020-03-19:

Figure 5: Officials from Aqyar Township, Aksu Prefecture announcing plans to elicit more gratitude towards the party from villagers.

2021, Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, James Leibold, Daria Impiombato, The architecture of repression: Unpacking Xinjiang’s governance, number 51, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-08, page 12:

A town in Uqturpan, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township


Rutog

Shan knew about Rutog. About one hundred twenty miles from Xinjiang. Close to India. A nuclear zone, a missile command center.

2002, Eliot Pattison, Water Touching Stone, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 348:

"Gou shi! Peng, where are they?"
Peng stood at a large wallmap of the region, estimating the intersection of the Harbin's reported sighting."
"The last reported position was in western Tibet," Peng replied, "near Bangong Co. The nearest village is Rutog."

2007, Tom Grace, The Secret Cardinal, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:

A town in Rutog County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Gêrzê

A town in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Toksun

A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China


Jiamao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 加茂 (Jiāmào).

This variety, sometimes know as [tha:i¹¹], is spoken by about 70,000-80,000 people who live mainly in the Jiamao township, Baoting County, and in adjacent areas of Lingshui and Qiongzhong counties.

2008, The Tai-Kadai Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 639:

In 2017, I visited a survivor, Chen Liancun, at Baoting County of Hainan Island.[...]At sixteen, she was abducted by Japanese soldiers and detained at the Jiamao military stronghold.

2021, Bárbara Mujica, editor, Collateral Damage: Women Write about War, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=4q0BEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT87:


Kümüx

Borrowed from Uyghur كۈمۈش (kümüsh) meaning 'silver', referring to local silver mines.

From the evidence of the latest Ludlovian to Early Devonian ophiolite, which crops out from the northern slope of Mt. Saarming to Kümüx and areas further east (Wang Zuoxun et al., 1986, 1990; Xiao Xuchang et al., 1990), the South Tianshan back-arc basin had already developed into a finite ocean basin along the Hantengri-Kümüx Fault after the Ludlovian.

1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11:

I wheeled down into Kümüx just after sunset and drank three Jianlibau soft drinks straight off in the first shop I came to.

1998, Anne Mustoe, Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:

A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.


Alaqagha

Borrowed from Uyghur ئالاقاغا (alaqagha).

On 29 April 1996, a group of dozen armed men attacked the houses of Qavul Toqa, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and Deputy to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People's Congress at Qunas village of Alaqagha Township in Kuqa County.

2007, Mahesh Ranjan Debata, “Ethnic Separatism in Xinjiang”, in China's Minorities: Ethnic-religious Separatism in Xinjiang, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 168:

In a recent example that demonstrates both of these tendencies, Radio Free Asia reported on 20 May that in Alaqagha township near Aksu, authorities had violently suppressed a protest against the detention of women and schoolgirls for wearing the hijab or headscarves, killing up to four protestors.

2014 May 23, Michael Clarke, “Why is Xinjiang violence escalating?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 2014-05-23:

A Washington Post team was turned away at the one of several checkpoints around Elishku, as army trucks rumbled past, and was subsequently detained for several hours by informers, police and Communist Party officials for reporting from villages in the surrounding district of Shache county; the following day, the team was again detained in Alaqagha in Kuqa county, and ultimately deported from the region from the nearest airport.

2014 September 19, Simon Denyer, “China's war on terror becomes all-out attack on Islam in Xinjiang”, in Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-20, World:

While the Chinese state and international media were probing into the nuts and the bolts of terrorist onslaught on innocent, mostly elderly, citizens of Urumqi, in the same week suppression of civil rights demonstrations by peaceful Uyghur protesters at Alaqagha township in Aksu prefecture's Kucha county went almost unnoticed.

2018, Debasish Chaudhuri, Xinjiang and the Chinese State: Violence in the Reform Era, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Uighur Muslim women visit a market in Alaqagha in western China's Xinjiang province in July.

2020 June 18, “China expressed strong opposition over US' Uighur Human Rights bill”, in The New Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-06-18:

A town in Kuqa, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China.


Barin

Village chiefs from Barin township, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that hundreds of the Islamic holy books printed before 2012 had been seized since authorities issued an order recalling them on Jan. 15.

2017, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Confiscate ‘Extremist’ Qurans From Uyghur Muslims”, in Mamatjan Juma, Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia:

A town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China


Gyantse

A town in Gyantse County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Guiyu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貴嶼 /贵屿 (Guìyǔ).

In Guiyu Township, Chaoyang County, Guangdong, the average yield for potato is 9.75 t/ha and for winter sweetpotato yield is about 17.25 t/ha.

1996, Charles S. Gitomer, Potato and Sweetpotato in China: Systems, Constraints, and Potential, Lima, Peru: International Potato Center, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:

Following up news articles and e-mails from mainland China, BAN was directed to an e-waste processing area known as Guiyu on the Longdong River near the city of Shantou in the northeast [of] Guangdong Province, four hours by car from Hong Kong. In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.

2002, Jim Puckett, 5:35 from the start, in Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia, spoken by Mary Ryan, Basel Action Network, →OCLC:

On a recent morning in Guiyu, in Guangdong province, hundreds of men squatted in concrete-block sheds, sifting through computers and printers and breaking them into scrap with their bare hands.

2003 February 24, Peter S. Goodman, “China Serves As Dump Site For Computers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-01:

The residents of Guiyu, including children, make their living sorting, dismantling and burning computer parts or bathing them in nitric and hydrochloric acids to recover precious metals.

2008 January 12, Jon Mooallem, “The risk-filled afterlife”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-14, International Business:

On seemingly every street, laborers sit on the pavement outside workshops ripping out the guts of household appliances with hammers and drills. The roads in Guiyu are lined with bundles of plastic, wires, cables and other garbage.

2013 May 30, Ivan Watson, “China: The electronic wastebasket of the world”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2013-05-31:

GUIYU, China (Reuters) - The dizzying stench of burning plastic still drifts through the alleys, workshops and warehouses of Guiyu, the southern Chinese town that has long symbolized China’s role as the main recycler of the world’s waste.[...]In the 2000s, Guiyu became a symbol of the environmental devastation caused by recycling hazardous waste with little regulation after being singled out by groups like Greenpeace and featuring in a string of international media reports. Trash is still the mainstay of Guiyu’s economy, but hundreds of recycling businesses have been consolidated or shut completely in recent years and authorities are now cracking down on smuggled waste, further starving small and polluting businesses of supplies. “Although the dismantling of old electronics is the leading industry in Guiyu, we should say it was more a profession than an industry,” said Zheng Jinxiong, vice chairman of a government commission tasked with running the recycling industry park, set up on the edge of town.

2018 January 23, David Stanway, “China trash town's cleanup bolstered by import ban”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-12-24:

For a long time, Guiyu in China was considered the world's biggest electronic trash dumping ground.

2018 February 14, Harald Franzen, “China cleans up electronic recycling”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2018-02-15, Environment:

Before writing his debut novel, The Waste Tide, a 2013 eco-thriller about a workers’ uprising in a futuristic dump called Silicon Isle, Chen spent time in the southeastern city of Guiyu, one of the world’s largest dumping grounds for electronic waste, observing migrant workers toil in the toxin-laden trash.

2021 March 9, Yi-Ling Liu, “Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan”, in Wired.com, archived from the original on 2021-03-09:

A town in Chaoyang, Shantou, Guangdong, China.


Bo'ao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 博鰲 /博鳌 (Bó'áo).

On April 16th, a Japanese landing party, covered by warships and aeroplanes, effected a landing at Poao on the eastern coast of Hainan Island in face of the Chinese force and occupied the port.

[1938, Tokyo Gazette, volume 2, →OCLC, page 35:

Beimen beach is just north of Bo'ao port, seaward of the village.

1988, Susana Salas Frazier, John G. Frazier, et al., “Sea Turtles in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces”, in 两栖爬行行动学报 [Acta Herpetologica Sinica], volume 1, Science Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37:

And a spectacular international conference center in a resort town called Bo'ao is being promoted as China's answer to Davos, Switzerland, where each January the annual World Economic Forum of business leaders, government officials, activists and intellectuals is held.[…]
Investors have taken notice. Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, is scouting development projects here. And Citic Pacific, a huge Hong Kong conglomerate, plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to develop residential and commercial property in Bo'ao.

2005 January 18, David Barboza, “China's Latest Capitalist Beachhead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-29, Business:

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video link to the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Forum For Asia in Bo'ao in southern China's Hainan Province, April 21, 2022.

2022 April 21, “China's Xi says international disputes should be resolved via dialogue, not sanctions”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2022-04-21:


Zurong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 足榮 /足荣 (Zúróng).

The medium-risk zones are mainly located in the western region of DeBao County, which mainly includes JingDe and DongLing. The lower risk zones exist mainly in ZuRong, and the lowest risk zones are in RongHua.

[2017 August 21, Jiajun Zeng, Guoru Huang, “Set pair analysis for karst waterlogging risk assessment based on AHP and entropy weight”, in Hydrology Research, volume 49, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1153:

Officials working in Zurong town’s Bainong village have recently assumed new duties. For example, they deliver fresh vegetables and pork to the Bainong Oil Pressing Plant in the village every day in order to ensure that everyone working there can have a good meal each day.

2020 June 16, Wang Jinli, “Poverty alleviation factories resume operations in Guangxi”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2021-04-29:

The content of soil organic matter is between 12.1 and 49.3 g/kg, with an average value of 27.5 g/kg, which is moderate, while the average content of organic matter in Najia Town, Zurong Town and Du’an Town is 38.0, 33.5 and 32.5 g/kg, respectively, which is within the high range.

2022 December, Zhipeng Liang et al., “Evaluation of Soil NutrientStatus Based on LightGBM Model:An Example of Tobacco Planting Soilin Debao County, Guangxi”, in Applied Sciences, volume 12, number 23, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-09:


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:


Shilong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石龍 /石龙 (Shílóng).


Tingri

As we approached Tingri, the valley widened out and bent round to the South. Tingri itself was situated on the side of a small hill in the middle of a great plain, from which, looking to the South, was visible the wonderful chain of snowy peaks, many of them over 25,000 feet in height, which extends Westwards from Mount Everest. We crossed the Ra-chu—a tributary of the Bhong-chu, partly by bridges and partly by fords ; it was split up into a number of small and very muddy channels that took their rise from the Kyetrak Glacier. Tingri was to be our first base for reconnoitring^([sic – meaning reconnoitering]) the Northern and North-western approaches to Mount Everest.

1922, C. K. Howard-Bury, “From Khamba Dzong through Unknown Country to Tingri”, in Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 70:

Tingri lies at the edge of a vast plain. There are great views of the Himalayan giants to the south, assuming there's no cloud cover. Everest, or the uppermost part of it, is visible to the far left, but from this distance it doesn't look like a mammoth. However, Cho Oyu, straight ahead, looks stunning. It's worth taking a short hike to the south of Tingri for better views; another viewpoint is from the top of the hill above the village, where there are some old fort ruins.

2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:

From there they would literally walk off the map, following a route that in seven days promised to reach Tingri Dzong, the Tibetan military garrison and trading depot that had long been anticipated as the base for the initial explorations of the northern approaches to the mountain.

2011, Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, The Bodley Head, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

Climbers say that China seems committed to avoiding the mistakes made by the Nepal government by issuing too many permits and increasing traffic. According to reports, China issued permits to only 22 Chinese nationals this year, out of the total 180 permits issued, in a bid to control traffic. The Chinese are also trying to boost their domestic tourism with a new mountaineering center in Tingri.

2018 May 16, Pradeep Bashyal, Annie Gowen, “Climate change, crowding imperil iconic route to top of Mount Everest”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2018-05-17:

A town in Tingri County, Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Houjie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 厚街 (Hòujiē).

In the Tungkun, Sheklung, Yashan and Lungkang areas, they encountered and defeated many groups of 200 to 300 Chinese soldiers and reached the line connecting Howkai, Talanghu, Changmutow and Pingshanhu on the evening of November 23rd.

[1938, Tokyo Gazette, volume 2, →OCLC, page 42:

The township of Houjie, for example, had an official population of 75,000, but was also home to another 100,000 migrant workers who kept its 900 factories producing. Because of this new supply of inexpensive labor, most Houjie natives had given up farming to become managers and entrepreneurs with a lifestyle and level of material consumption unimaginable under Mao. As Nicholas Kristof discovered when he visited the township shortly after my own trip, the local Party chief had long since abandoned ideology in favor of the affectations of a tycoon. Rather than making his appointed rounds in a Chinese-made Liberation-brand truck, he was ensconced in a chauffeur-driven air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz 300SEL complete with a bibiji and dageda. Towns like Houjie were commercial free-fire zones that moguls from postindustrial countries could only dream about.

1994, Orville Schell, Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders, Touchstone Books, published 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 337:

According to the peasant workers, Huang's body floated up six days after the incident. As for Li's body, it was discovered 8 km to 9 km downstream at Houjie township. Huang's body was cremated on February 23 at Dongguan Crematorium and Li's was cremated on February 25. Their relatives from Guangxi did not get to Dongguan until February 27 and March 1, respectively. So they did not have a chance to bid farewell before the cremation.

2001, Anita Chan, China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:

The city is divided into thirty-two towns, and each one specializes in manufacturing. Chang’an produces electronic components, Dalang is famous for sweaters, and Houjie makes shoes.

2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:

The town of Houjie was one of the first within Dongguan prefecture to receive Taiwanese investment.

2010, Karl Gerth, As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers are Transforming Everything, New York: Hill and Wang, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:

In a rundown mall in Houjie, a factory town in the urban sprawl of Dongguan, the HSBC branch stands out with its bright posters and smiling receptionist, but only a handful of customers an hour crossed the threshold during a Reuters visit last week.

2017 April 27, “Empty Pearl River Delta branches a check on HSBC's China plan”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-25, Breaking City News:


Xinchengzi

/ˌʃɪnˈt͡ʃʌŋ(d)zɪ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新城子 (Xīnchéngzi).

In Xinchengzi, the rural township north of Miyun, farmers are no longer able to draw water from wells, forcing them to buy water from trucks.

2000 May 31, “Capital's main dam shrinking fast”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2023-06-18:

Two macaques, the only species of monkey native to Beijing municipality, have made surprise appearances this year in Yaoqiaoyu Village, Xinchengzi Town of Miyun County.

2004 February 13, Zhang Ran, “Monkeys Return to Miyun”, in Beijing Today, number 141, →OCLC, page 5:

A town in Miyun district, Beijing, China.


Jartai

Here the Alxa Platform Uplift needs a special explanation. Some Chinese geologists consider that it is not a platform but a part of a Paleozoic geosyncline. Here we still believe that it represents a platform uplift. This is supported by the following lines of evidence:[...](4) there occurs the high-grade metamorphic Alxa Group north of Jartai, which is intruded by 1365-my-old gabbro and overlain by the Late Proterozoic metamorphic rock series; and[...]

1987, “Brief Description of the Main Tectonic Units of China”, in Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51:

Going to Jartai by Mistake
[...]At last, we saw lights up ahead and stopped our car to make inquiries. We were told that in fact this was not Linhe but Jartai, a name entirely unfamiliar to us.[...]
Jartai, the site of China's first mechanized saltworks, is not a big town, but all its hotels were packed with tourists.

1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, edited by Tu Nai Hsien, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 101, 102:

To evaluate the stability of the NOAA Pathfinder data set, a window containing mobile sand dunes without vegetation—visited during fieldwork in September 1995—was chosen north of Jartai in the Ulan Buh Desert (Eval-site in Fig. 9).

2000 December, Micael C. Runnström, “Is Northern China Winning the Battle against Desertification?”, in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, volume 29, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 471:

In this aerial photo taken on April 16, 2021, workers water sacsaoul trees in Gobi desert areas around Jartai Township of Araxan Left Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

2021 April 17, “Xinhua Photos of the Day (April 17)”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2021-04-17:

A town in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia, in northern China.


Dazhai

/ˌdɑːˈd͡ʒaɪ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寨 (Dàzhài).

As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.

[1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], “Shansi Article Accuses 'Gang' of Sabotages Tachai”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4:

In 1964 a new policy emerged, which continued until about 1978 within the context of greater state support to agriculture. The origins of the policy go back to February 1960 in Hsi-yang county and the small village of Ta-chai. In that year Ch’en Yung-kuei, the production team leader of Ta-chai, reported to the Shansi Communist Party Congress how his village had raised crop yields to unprecedentedly high and stable levels through a new kind of team spirit and organization.

[1980, Ramon H. Myers, “The Development of the Socialist Economy”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 216:

The term “shanzhai” also riffs off a popular Cultural Revolution era slogan about a model village, Dazhai, which has been changed to read: “In agriculture learn from Dazhai, in industry learn from Shanzhai.”

2009 February 6, Tyra Dempster, Ben Blanchard, “"Sham glam" sweeps China as fakes get trendy”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-26, Lifestyle:

A town in Xiyang, Jinzhong, Shanxi, China, formerly a township


Xinan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西南 (Xīnán).

A resident of Shangdaimei village, also near Shanwei city, said hundreds of villagers had marched to local government offices in Xinan township on Sunday to protest the sale of their farmland.[…]
An official who answered the phone at the Xinan township government confirmed the protest had taken place.

2011 December 19, Fung Yat-yiu, Wen Yuqing, Luisetta Mudie, “Villagers Defy Threat of Force”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2015-09-10:

A town in Lufeng, Shanwei, Guangdong, China.


Dasi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寺.

The rain, which started on Wednesday evening, hit the northern part of the city the hardest. Dasi township in the suburban Xiqing district was the worst-affected area, receiving 34.5 centimeters of rain, according to the Tianjin Meteorological Bureau.

2012 July 27, “Tianjin hit with heavy rainfall”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2012-07-28:

A town in Xiqing district, Tianjin, China.


Xibaipo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西柏坡 (Xībǎipō).

On April 22, 1948, P'eng Teh-huai's troops recovered Yenan. In May, Mao Tse-tung and the headquarters of the CCP Central Committee moved from northern Shensi to Hsipaipo Village, Pingshan Hsien, Hopei Province in anticipation of an early nationwide victory.

[1967, Franklin W. Houn, “The Final Conquest of Power: 1945-1949”, in A Short History of Chinese Communism, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:

On the eighteenth of April, Chou En-lai, who had been away on another mission, arrived at Hsi-pai-p’o, a small community a few miles northwest of the city of Shih-chia-chuang in Hopeh province. The Chairman did not join him there until the twenty-seventh of May, whereupon they settled into Hsi-pai-p’o for what turned out to be ten months. Then the Chairman moved on to their final destination, the ancient capital of Peking, less than two hundred miles to the northeast. At Hsi-pai-p’o the Chairman continued to write prolifically (on land reform, Party discipline, military strategy, and the KMT).

[1977, Roxane Witke, “On the Road to Peking”, in Comrade Chiang Ch’ing, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 217–218:

In a square in front of a Communist Party memorial hall at Xibaipo in northern China, row upon row of party members stood, raised their fists and chanted the party oath in unison.[...]
Xibaipo was an important Communist Party base during China's civil war, which ended in 1949 with the victorious communists sweeping to power.[...]
Party researchers and officials told Reuters the large numbers of visitors at Xibaipo reflects a national push to get people, especially party members and cadres, to get involved with the upcoming anniversary.
Schools are also taking part. At Xibaipo, in Hebei province, a large group of students was lined up, given small national flags and told to recite their Communist Youth League oaths, just as the senior party members were doing.

2021 May 25, Martin Pollard, “Chinese visit 'red' sites ahead of 100th Communist Party anniversary”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-25:

A town in Pingshan, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, in northeastern China.


Seriqbuya

Borrowed from Uyghur سېرىقبۇيا (sëriqbuya).

Details of the assault were sparse, but the news agency said the attackers in Selibuya had been armed with knives and axes. Calls to the authorities in Kashgar, about 100 miles from the police station, and in the nearby town of Bachu were not answered.[…]
The deputy chief of the police station at Selibuya, Hesen Ablet, told Radio Free Asia that when he got to the station after being summoned to assist, “there were already four or five bodies lying on the ground.”

[2013 November 17, Jane Perlez, “9 Attackers and 2 Officers Reported Killed in Tense Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-11-18, Asia Pacific:

As with the Baren incident, there are official and alternative accounts of the events reported in Seriqbuya Town, Maralbeshi (Ch. Bachu) County, Kashgar Prefecture, on 23 April 23 2013.

2019, Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino, “Old ‘counter-revolution’, new ‘terrorism’: historicizing the framing of violence in Xinjiang by the Chinese state”, in Central Asian Survey, volume 38, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:

Prison authorities transferred the prisoners’ bodies to police stations in various Maralbeshi townships, including Seriqbuya, about one week prior to Eid, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, said a source in Maralbeshi.
The residential committee employee contacted by RFA said she visited Metniyaz’s family about 40 days ago to monitor his funeral.
The delivery of the body created a stir in Seriqbuya town, witnesses said.

2023 May 24, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur motorcycle repairman’s corpse released by prison in Kashgar prefecture”, in Roseanne Gerin, Malcom Foster, editors, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2024-02-01, RFA Uyghur:

A town in Maralbexi, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.


Gaotian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高田 (Gāotián).

Compared With the scenery of Xingping that of Gaotian is more colourful. Gaotian lies In the south of the town of Yangshuo. Along both sides of the rivers, rice fields and villages form into a pastoral scene, which changes its colour in different seasons.

2004 March, Li River: A Photographic Collection of Teng Bin, Jieli Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:

Gaotian is located in the Yueliang (Moon) Hill scenic area in Gaotian Township, Yangshuo County. The Jinbao River, Yulong River, both branches of the Lijiang River, merge here as the Tianjia River and flow back into the Lijiang River.

2006 May/June, Teng Bin, “10 Best Views in Yangshuo”, in China Tourism, number 303, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:

Gaotian Town[…]高田镇[…]
The attached Yangshuo Village Inn has delectable rooms too, if you need somewhere to kip after your fill. It’s not easy to find, in a village called Li Village (历村 Lì Cūn), before you reach Gāotián Town.
Minibuses (¥2) run from Yángshuò to Gāotián. Before Gāotián, disembark at Li Village and it’s a five-minute walk to the restaurant.

2017, Damian Harper et al., “Guǎngxī”, in China (Lonely Planet), 15th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 626, column 1:

A town in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China.


Lenghu

At Niubiziliang we returned to the embrace of the Altun Mountains, then turning eastward we soon reached Lenghu, an oil city in Qinghai Province.
The city of Lenghu was originally a salt lake. Located at a high altitude and in a frigid zone, it has no vegetation. The discovery of oil, however, has brought both people and vitality to this barren area. Today there are shopping arcades, cinemas, a TV station and hotels, but still one sees neither animals nor plants anywhere.
Departing from Lenghu our car climbed up Dangjin Pass, the main passage leading to Gansu Province.

1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, “Buried Cities and Shifting Sands — Onward to Dunhuang”, in Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

A number of oil fields are in operation, notably in the Mangnai area in the western part of the basin. A large oil refinery has been constructed at Lenghu, southwest of Dangjin Pass, and another has been built at Mangnai.

2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes, 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

Spanning 32 hectares (80 acres), the base is situated 60km (37 miles) from the town of Lenghu near the upper reaches of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, an arid desert region dubbed “the place on Earth that is most unlike being on Earth”, according to camp manager Gao Junling.[…]
But the “Mars village” was originally proposed by the local government in 2017 as a cultural and educational centre for science, popular science and science fiction, according to Ma Wenwu, a member of the Mangnai city committee, which oversees Lenghu.

2019 March 4, Laurie Chen, “China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2019-03-03, Science:

A town in Mangnai, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.


Sizhou

From Hanyu Pinyin Sìzhōu, from the Mandarin pronunciation of both Chinese 泗州 (Sìzhōu, “zhou on the Si River”) and 肆州 (Sìzhōu), used as both the name of the prefectures, subprefectures, &c. and their seats of government.

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(historical) A town in Sizhou, Jiangnan, in Qing-era China

The Eastern Wei wanted to annex the Western Wei by launching wars for many times, and at the same time dispatched civilians to build the Great Wall for the base of attack and defense. In 543, Gao Huan supervised the construction from Sizhou (today’s Xinzhou of Shānxi Province ) to Malingshu in the west (today’s Jingle of Shānxi Province) and to Tudeng in the east (today’s Dai County in Shānxi Province).

2008 September, Yaohui [董耀会] Dong, “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:

(historical) A town in Sizhou prefecture, Shanxi, in imperial China


Zhenbeipu

jǔnʹbāʹpo͞oʹ

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮北堡 /镇北堡.

The Movie-TV Center is situated at Zhenbeipu. This place was formerly an important strategic stronghold on the frontier, it has been kept in its natural and undeveloped state making it a prime location for outdoor film settings of ancient China's Western regions.

2002 October, “A Trip to Ningxia”, in Traveling the Silk Road in China, Xinjiang People's Publishing House (新疆人民出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:

Take the coach from Nanmen Square, Yinchuan, to Zhenbeipu Town and then take a taxi from Zhenbeipu Town to Helankou, which will cost you about 15 yuan.

2006 August 11, Jackie Zhang, “Ningxia — a cool journey to ancient ruins”, in Beijing Today, number 271, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 20, column 2:

I even found it difficult to walk up the stairs at the Gulous Restraunt in Yincuan^([sic – meaning Yinchuan]). So I decided to stay on level ground and visit Zhenbeipu fortress.[…]
Leaving boisterous Zhenbeipu, we headed west. The road climbed uphill some 10 km as we moved over the alluvial plain created by the glaciers of the Helan Mountains.

2007, China Tourism, numbers 307-309, →OCLC, pages 125–126:

A town in Xixia district, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.


Yesheng

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葉盛／叶盛 (Yèshèng)

The key projects which will be or may be carried out include the Huang He water diversion project for helping the poor and irrigation, the new Yinchuan airport, the Yaofu-Yesheng first-grade highway, the second-phase construction project of Daba Power Plant, the third-phase construction project of Qingtongxia Aluminum Plant, and the second chemical fertilizer project of Ningxia Chemical Industrial Plant.

1996 February 1 [1996 January 3], Huang Huang, Daily Report China, number 96-022, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, translation of original by Ningxia Daily [宁夏日报], →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 53, column 2:

Highway 307. It starts from Yesheng of Qingtongxia City and ends at Wangquanliang in Yanchi County, the total length is 134 kilometers. It was reconstructed section by section to class 21 asphalt highway.

1999, 中国交通五十年成就 : 宁夏卷 [50-Year Achievements of Communications in China: Ningxia Volume], China Communications Press (人民交通出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53, column 2:

The biochar and nitrogen (N) amendment study was conducted at Yesheng Town, Qingtongxia City, China (106°11′35″E, 38°07′26″N). The study area has a temperate continental monsoon climate with an average temperature of 8.9°C.

2022, Jiali Sun, Hongbo Li, Yanan Wang, Zhangliu Du, Zed Rengel, Aiping Zhang, “Biochar and nitrogen fertilizer promote rice yield by altering soil enzyme activity and microbial community structure”, in GCB Bioenergy: Bioproducts for a Sustainable Bioeconomy, volume 14, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-02-26, page 1268, column 1:

A town in Qingtongxia, Wuzhong, Ningxia, China.


Yanghe

楊和／杨和 (Yánghé)

The 1982 average per capita annual income in Yongning County was substantially higher, 539 yuan according to the Population Census Office (1987:206).[…]
In terms of the small food industry, eight households opened small restaurants in Yanghe Township with several others selling yang zasui — a traditional Hui spicy stew made from the internal organs of sheep.[…]
Before 1949, Hui proclivity for growing cash crops in this area was noted by Fan Changjiang. He observed that the opium produced by Han and Hui peasants in the Yanghe area was of a very high quality, but the Han could not make much of a profit from it: They smoked too much of it themselves and were too weak to gain financially from it.

1998, Dru C. Gladney, “Getting Rich is Not So Glorious: Contrasting Perspectives on Prosperity Among Muslims and Han in China”, in Robert W. Hefner, editor, Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 110–111:

Na Homestead is part of Yongning county, Yang He township, fifteen kilometers south of Yinchuan city in central Ningxia.¹[…]
1. Najiahu, which I translate “Na Homestead,” is a brigade (dadui) belonging to Yanghe commune (gongshe). Now that Yanghe has become a township (xiang), Na Homestead can be considered a large village, comprising eleven teams (xiaodui).

2002, Dru C. Gladney, “Ethnoreligious Resurgence in a Northwestern Sufi Community”, in Susan D. Blum, Lionel M. Jensen, editors, China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 108, 348:

Najiahu Grand Mosque
Located in Najiahu Village, Yanghe Town, Yongning County, in Yinchuan City, the Najiahu Grand Mosque boasts a time-honored history of over 480 years, as well as its distinguished style which combined the architectural art of Tang dynasty and[…]

2015, Ningxia Travel Guide, China National Tourism Administration, →OCLC, page 27:

Borehole YNZK01 (38◦16′43′′ N, 106◦12′49′′ E) is located in Dongquan Village in Yanghe Township, Yongning County, Yinchuan Municipality, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China (Fig. 1-B). The orifice elevation was 1115.972 m above sea level based on real-time kinetic (RTK) measurement.

2022, Ma Xuedong et al., “High-resolution late Pliocene-quaternary magnetostratigraphy of the Yinchuan Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau”, in Quaternary International, volume 607, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

A town in Yongning, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.


Anbu

Along with the new hospital, dispensaries were opened at Ampow (菴埠) and Tat-hau-pow (達濠埠), 9 miles distant from the city; each one was visited every alternate week. They were kept open until 1872; the dispensary at Tat-hau-pow was again started in 1875.

[1936, K. Chimin Wong [王吉民], Wu Lien-teh [伍連德], “Period 1866-1879. Adoption of new methods for medical work”, in History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period, 2nd edition, Shanghai: National Quarantine Service, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 423:

Chen Bo'er, originally named Chen Shunhua, was born to a wealthy merchant’s family in Anbu, a small town in Chaoan County, Guangdong, in 1907.

2017, Wang Zheng, “Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film”, in Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:

A town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.


Aigun

North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900).

1905, Archibald Little, “The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 158:

Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.

1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:

Tsitsihar, or Pukwei, is the capital of Heilungkiang, its chief mart being Aigun, on the Amur.

1917, “The Provinces and Dependencies”, in W. Feldwick, editor, Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent & Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad, →OCLC, page 164, column 3:


Tiantai

A town in the county-level city of Chishui, prefecture-level city of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.

A town in the Yuanzhou District, prefecture-level city of Yichun, Jiangxi, China.

A town in the county-level city of Dehui, prefecture-level city of Changchun, Jilin, China.


Boketu

A town in Yakeshi, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China.