Youyu
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 右玉 (Yòuyù).
Proper noun
Youyu
- A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.
- , →OCLC, pages 1, 14:
- Shansi. […]
Yuyu County has a population of some 80,000. (NCNA in Chinese 0240 gmt 6 Oct 77) […]
Yuyu County has afforested a total of 640,000 mou since 1971 and, as a result, 40% of the land previously subject to water and soil erosion has now been brought under control. (NCNA in Chinese 0240 gmt 6 Oct 77)]
- 2010, Peter Hessler, “The Wall”, in Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 38–39:
- Having been constructed to keep the barbarians out, the Great Wall was now welcoming the World Bank. I contacted the local government, to see if somebody could give an introduction to the project, and a cadre agreed to meet me. He was the director of the Youyu County tax bureau, and he told me that over the past two years the local government had received nearly three million dollars in loans from the World Bank. […]
Here in Youyu County, the government was proud of their World Bank project, and figures piled up in my notebook. They intended to plant 1,400 hectares of trees around the Ming fort; currently Youyu County had successfully controlled erosion in 28 percent of their target region; their final goal was 53 percent.
- 2018 [2015 January 12], Xi Jinping, “Be a Good County Party Secretary”, in The Governance of China, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:
- In a windswept location in the Mu Us Desert (Ordos Desert), Youyu County of Shanxi Province is a barren land battered by sandstorms and with minimal natural resources. In the early days of the People’s Republic, the county’s first Party secretary led the people to initiate an afforestation project to curb encroachment by the sand.
- 2023 September 6, “China authorities arrest 2 for smashing shortcut through Great Wall with excavator”, in AP News, archived from the original on September 06, 2023, World News:
- The government of Youyu County, hundreds of kilometers (miles) west of Beijing showed a dirt road cut through a section of the wall against a rural landscape, along with the two suspects, identified as a 38-year-old man surnamed Zheng and a 55-year-old woman surnamed Wang.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Youyu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3535, column 3