Meaning of Xiaoyi | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

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“But amongst our party was an official who had been magistrate at Hsiaoyi, a day's journey further north in the mountains, who affirmed that compared to the latter district, Chenan was a garden; for Hsiaoyi, it seems, has no land tax receipts, and practically no population.[…] A road runs due south from Hsian, the provincial capital, through the Ch’inling Shan via Hsiaoyi and Chenan to Hsingan on the Han River, being the most direct route between these two important cities, but it is so rough as to be little used.”

“After the re-capture of Fenyang and Shanchuantseng by the Government troops in Shansi Province, the Communists have retreated to Hsiaoyi. Under the personal direction of the Communist leader, Mao Tze-tung, the Communists are engaged in a serious fight with the Shansi troops near Hsiaoyi, reported Shun Pao March 6.”

“Investigations into the gas explosions at the Mengnanzhuang coal mine in Xiaoyi city, Shanxi province, which killed seventy-two miners on 22 March 2003; at the Baixing mine in Jixi city, Heilongjiang province, which killed thirty-seven miners on 23 February 2004; and at the Xiangyuangou mine in Jiaocheng county, Shanxi province, which killed twenty-nine miners on 9 March 2005, revealed four common denominators.”

“Jointly held by Lvliang government and CEIS, the 3rd Belt and Road Seminar on Green Development of Coal Coking Industry kicked off on Saturday in Xiaoyi, a county-level city of Lvliang, north China’s Shanxi province.”

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