North China Plain

English Etymology en Proper noun North China Plain 1 A large alluvial plain of northern China, bordered to the north by the Yanshan Mountains, to the west by the Taihang Mountains and Funiu Mountains, to the southwest by the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains, and to the east by the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and merging with the Jianghuai Plains to the south. en June 12, 1948 Lewis Clark The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Butterworth) Foreign Relations of the United States 1948 VII https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0007unit_y9v3/ 1973 Nanking w:Government Printing Office 17188358 296 https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0007unit_y9v3/page/296/ It is probable that, as the campaign progresses, the Manchurian Communists will be able to secure a foothold on the North China Plain. en 1956 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/ New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 55-11530 633834569 6179148M 99 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/page/99/ The predominantly calcareous alluvium of the North China plain and the summer rainfall have made the region one of the most important agricultural areas of China. en September 28, 2007 Jim Yardley Jim Yardley Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20081209043537/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html December 09, 2008 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific The North China Plain undoubtedly needs any water it can get. An economic powerhouse with more than 200 million people, it has limited rainfall and depends on groundwater for 60 percent of its supply. Other countries, like Yemen, India, Mexico and the United States, have aquifers that are being drained to dangerously low levels. But scientists say those below the North China Plain may be drained within 30 years. en April 20, 2022 Echo Xie Dead heat by 2050: massive North China area to be hotspot for killer mix of heatwaves and surface ozone, study finds https://web.archive.org/web/20220420124812/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3174916/dead-heat-2050-massive-north-china-area-be-hotspot-killer-mix 20 April 2022 w:South China Morning Post The North China Plain, extending across 14 million hectares (35 million acres), was a hotspot for extreme heat and ozone pollution in China, wrote the Chinese and US researchers behind the study. en Translations plain located in northern China Catalan: ca Gran Planúria del Nord de la Xina f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 華北平原 waa4 bak1 ping4 jyun4 Mandarin: cmn 華北平原 Huáběi Píngyuán French: fr grande plaine de Chine du Nord f German: de Nordchinesische Ebene f Korean: ko 화베이 평원 Russian: ru Великая Китайская равнина f Vietnamese: vi bình nguyên Hoa Bắc Further reading North China Plain en 1998 North China Plain 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 2210 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2210/ 2 en Places in China