luliang

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1. A county of Qujing, Yunnan, China.

   “The regional paper Yünnan Daily also carried a report in this respect, as follows: "The Party committee for the Ch'aot'ieh commune in Luliang county, Yünnan province, has been educating the Party members in Party policy, fundamental Party knowledge and current situation, thereby raising their ideological and policy level, through such methods as the opening of training classes...”

   “Yunnan. Since the cultural revolution, this province has completed 31 medium-sized and small chemical fertilizer plants;[…]Luliang County chemical fertilizer works was founded by 39 poor and lower-middle peasants with five earthen jars;[…]”

   “Many areas have not had rain since at least October. Here in Luliang County, about 70 miles east of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, no rain has fallen since August.[…] In mid-March, China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, made a three-day tour of Yunnan, including Luliang County, to pledge government help and urge new water-conservation efforts.[…] A several-hour tour of Luliang County on Sunday suggested the drought had struck in patchwork fashion.”

   “In particular, my trip to a Sierbao village in Luliang county, Yunnan province, left a deep impression. Luliang is about 135 kilometres northeast of the provincial capital Kunming. This is one of China's major tourist routes, served by a brand new national highway. It took me just two hours by bus from Kunming to Luliang county.”

   “The bureau in September said Luliang County in Yunnan province had inflated its first-half industrial output and fixed-asset investment data by more than 100 percent.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Lüliang (prefecture-level city)

   “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.”

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

   “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.”

   “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.”

3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Lüliang (mountain range)

   “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.”

   “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).”