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Lüliang
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Luliang Lu-liang Lǚliáng
English
Alternative forms
en Luliang Lu-liang Lvliang Lyuliang
Etymology
From en cmn 呂梁.
Pronunciation
lüʹlyängʹ
lo͞oʹlyängʹen 1952 Luliang Mountains Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1096 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1096/ 1
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city province/Shanxi c/China.
en 1984 w:Vaclav Smil The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China https://archive.org/details/badearthenvironm0000smil/ 0-87332-230-4 83-14821 421982993 3172582M 42 https://archive.org/details/badearthenvironm0000smil/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).
en 2004 Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ18rrhjNZIC 0-7146-5549-X 2003011126 493233680 9887791M 129 As stated above, Lüliang prefecture in Shanxi province is the region where the first wasteland auctions were organized in the early 1980s
en 2010 Kolya Abramsky Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World https://archive.org/details/sparkingworldwid0000unse/ w:AK Press 978-184935005-1 2009933022 699916858 25160959M 411–412 https://archive.org/details/sparkingworldwid0000unse/page/411/ 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.
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en mountain range province/Shanxi c/China.
en 2000 Aiping Mu Vermilion Gate https://archive.org/details/vermiliongate0000muai/ w:Little, Brown and Company 0316641707 41620255 81 https://archive.org/details/vermiliongate0000muai/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.
en 2009 Zhang Yulin China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives https://books.google.com/books?id=nX-sDAAAQBAJ w:University of Ottawa Press 978-0-7766-0709-2 743212430 24331039M 165 https://books.google.com/books?id=nX-sDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA165 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.
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Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 呂梁 Lǚliáng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Lüliang Mountains 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 1803 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1803/ 2
Anagrams
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