Huaning
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Huaning
- A county of Yuxi, Yunnan, China.
- 1987, Wolfgang Bartke, “Pu Chaozhu”, in Who's Who in the People's Republic of China, 2nd edition, K. G. Saur, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 364, column 1:
- Pu was born in 1929 in Huaning County, Yunnan Province. After graduation from senior high school in 1948, he joined the CCP and was sent to rural areas to engage in underground work.
- 2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:
- More than 6,500 Adu people live in central Yunnan Province in southwest China. Approximately 3,500 live in Huaning County within Yuxi Prefecture. Their village names in Huaning are Songzichang, Xinzhai, Keju, and Chengmentong.
- 2006, Carol Holtz, Suzanne Grisdale, “Global Health in Reproduction and Infants”, in Global Health Care: Issues and Policies, Jones and Bartlett, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 449–450:
- According to a study conducted by Lofstedt, Shusheng, and Johansson (2004), in China high gender ratios of males at birth are due to abortion practices. Between 1984 and 1987 rates of abortions for female fetuses in Huaning County, Yunnan Province, in China increased, creating a ratio of 107 males to 100 females, while between the period from 1988-2000 the ratio rose again to 110 males to 100 females.
- 2018 August 14, “Earthquake in China: Magnitude-5 jolt hits Yunnan Province, 18 injured”, in The Financial Express, archived from the original on 14 August 2018, World News:
- The quake damaged over 6,000 homes and affected more than 48,000 residents in Tonghai and Huaning counties and in the district of Jiangchuan, all administered by the city of Yuxi, the provincial civil affairs department said in a statement.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huaning.
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- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwaning or Hua-ning”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 2: “Until 1913 called Ningchow; later, briefly, Ninghsien; and, 1914-31, Lihsien.”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huaning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1323, column 2