Lankao

English Lankao County Alternative forms en Lan-k'ao Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn 蘭考, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin. Pronunciation län′kou′ en Lan kao Proper noun en county prefecture-level city/Kaifeng province/Henan c/China. en 1966 May Mu Ching County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1966-05-OCR/ XV 5 7513641 6 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1966-05-OCR/page/n4/ IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history. en 1969 Michel Oksenberg Michel Oksenberg Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment w:A. Doak Barnett Chinese Communist Politics in Action https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist00barn/ w:University of Washington Press 69-14203 185952435 160–161 https://archive.org/details/chinesecommunist00barn/page/161/ He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County. en 1973 w:Rewi Alley zh:中国见闻<t:Travels in China, 1966-71> https://archive.org/details/travelsinchina1900allerich/ Peking w:New World Press 462299220 6 https://archive.org/details/travelsinchina1900allerich/page/6/ Lankao County in HonanIn the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan. en MARCH 18, 2014 China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system https://web.archive.org/web/20220515124252/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption-idUSBREA2H0NS20140318 15 May 2022 w:Reuters Emerging Markets “The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said. en Translations county Chinese: Cantonese: yue 蘭考 Mandarin: cmn 蘭考 Japanese: ja Further reading en 1998 Lankao Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1684 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1684/ 1