Meaning of Lüliang | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A county of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
2. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
3. A mountain range in Shanxi, China.

Examples

“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).”

“As stated above, Lüliang prefecture in Shanxi province is the region where the first wasteland auctions were organized in the early 1980s”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

““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.”

“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.”

“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).”

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