Meaning of Yangqu | Babel Free

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A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

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“In 1945 Hua became the secretary of the Chinese Communist party’s* Chiao-ch’eng County Committee and was promoted two years later to be secretary of the Yang-ch’ü County Party Committee and political commissar of the local Communist forces.”

“The issue of funding temple festivals, however, would not go away; missionaries repeatedly asked the French minister to address this problem. For example, in a letter that arrived in Beijing on 2 December 1861 describing the situation in Yangqu County in Taiyuan Prefecture, a missionary complained that even though the Zongli yamen had sent a document on these matters to provincial authorities, nothing had changed.”

“Local residents hold flags of various nations to form the Olympic Rings to celebrate the Spring Festival and promote the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on the Loess Plateau in Yangqu country, Shanxi province February 16, 2008.”

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