Lüliang
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Lüliang
- A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
- 1984, Vaclav Smil, The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:
- The annual losses of topsoil are now over 10,000 tons per km² in Yulin and Yan’an prefectures in Shaanxi and in Lüliang and Xinxian prefectures in Shanxi, and they average 4,000-5,000 tons per km² a year throughout most of the region, whose most eroded parts are now just a lifeless maze of deeply cut narrow and steep-sided gullies (Figure 8).
- 2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World, AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 411–412:
- Ten counties around Lüliang in Shanxi have been designated national-level or county-level poverty-stricken counties. In all of them, coal accounts for 70-75 percent of government revenues.¹⁹ According to SAWS statistics, between 2003 and 2006 there were 15 mine accidents, which killed 155 people, in Lüliang.
- 2018 March 28, Zhao Yusha, “Former deputy mayor of North China city sentenced to immediate death”, in Global Times, archived from the original on March 28, 2018:
- Zhang Zhongsheng, ex-deputy mayor of Lüliang, was sentenced to death for accepting bribes and seeking illegal benefits for others with a severe impact on the local economy, according to the Intermediate People's Court in the nearby city of Linfen, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lüliang.
- A mountain range in Shanxi, China.
- 2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:
- My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.
- 2009, Yulin Zhang, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:
- An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lüliang.
Translations
prefecture-level city
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Luliang Mountains”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1096, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lüliang Mountains”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1803, column 2