Luliang

Luliang

1. Alternative form of Lüliang (prefecture-level city)
   • 2002, Sam Daley-Harris, Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families‎, Kumarian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:

     China’s remaining poverty is primarily rural, mainly scattered among remote, mountainous, and minority nationality areas in the northwest and southwest. To address this challenge China is shifting from regional development projects to household-based initiatives that are increasingly directed at women. One especially successful example has been the poverty alleviation program sponsored by the Luliang Prefecture Women’s Federation (LPWF) in Shansi province.

   • 2004 August 6, Zhang Huan, “Saved by Music”, in Beijing Today‎, →OCLC, page 9:

     Gao comes from the mountainous area of Luliang, in Shanxi Province.

   • 2009, George C. S. Lin, Developing China: Land, politics and social conditions (Routledge Contemporary China Series)‎, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 159:

     In recognition of the special nature of wasteland, local peasants in Luliang prefecture of Shanxi Province took a bold initiative that deviated from the norm of the household responsibility system and sold the rights to use collectively owned wasteland through a competitive bidding process and for a term of longer than thirty years.

   • 2018 July 26, Muyu Xu; Josephine Mason, “China's Shanxi rolls out regional environmental checks, mills cut output”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 11 May 2022, Environment:

     “Inspectors must keep high standards and not let violators pass the surprise checks,” said a statement from the environmental bureau of Luliang city, adding that anyone who is found forging emission data will be given a heavier punishment.
     Seventy inspectors in Luliang have been dispatched to carry out checks up until Aug. 19. The Beijing-lead inspections are slated to start in Shanxi province from Aug. 20.
     An official from the Luliang environmental bureau told Reuters a meeting was held by the Shanxi provincial government several days ago that gathered representatives from all cities to discuss the regional checks.

   • 2023 May 14, Chan, Minnie, “Chinese police detain suspect after 7 dead in home and car attacks”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 14 May 2023, Politics‎:

     Police in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have detained a 27-year-old man accused of killing at least seven people, four of them by driving into a group of pedestrians and cars.
     Authorities in the city of Luliang said on Sunday that the suspect, identified only by his surname Guo, allegedly went to the home of a 21-year-old married woman in Xing county at around 2pm on Saturday, killing her husband, son and mother-in-law.

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2. Alternative form of Lüliang (mountain range)
   • 1981 July, Wen, Tianshen, “Shanxi Province- China's Largest Coal Base”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXX, number 7, →OCLC, page 16:

     In Taiyuan, the provincial capital, I was told that a new field of high-quality coking coal was being developed in Gujiao, 56 kilometers away.[...]This was intriguing, and I left for Gujiao by bus, accompanied by a comrade from the provincial coal bureau. We first crossed the Luliang mountains, 1,800 meters above sea level. In the valley, a 47-kilometer electric railway has been built, running through 18 tunnels and over seven bridges across the winding Fenhe River.

   • 2006, Chen, Hao; Karen R. Polenske, “Alternative Cokemaking Technologies in Shanxi Province”, in Karen R. Polenske, editor, The Technology-Energy-Environment-Health (TEEH) Chain in China: A Case Study of Cokemaking‎, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

     By 2005, most of the indigenous ovens in Shanxi Province are closed, although Xinhua News posted an article in October 2003 showing the pollution from indigenous ovens still in use in the Luliang Mountain area in Shanxi Province (Xinhua News, 2003 21:58, accessed December 2003, http://www.sina.com.cn).

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