Meaning of Zuoyun | Babel Free

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A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.

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“Our province has corrected the unitary method of grain management since the third plenary session and has encouraged development of diversification. Now, not only have production brigades and production teams with an average per capita income reaching 300 yuan, 400 yuan and 500 yuan appeared, but counties and suburbs like Zuoyun County which increased their income by 200 percent in 2 years' time have appeared as well.”

山西日報

“In November 2006, explosions at two Shanxi mines, one in Yuanping and the other in Jinzhong, killed 109 people. Earlier in the year, a coal mine flood in Zuoyun county killed 56 miners.”

“The coal mine boss, Li Fuyuan, 45 this year, was found guilty of failing to adopt effective measures after learning of flooding in his mine in Zuoyun county last May 18, the newspaper said.”

“After a flood drowned fifty-six miners at the Xinjing coal mine in Zuoyun county, Shanxi, the operator falsely claimed that only five miners had been trapped inside. The township head and Party secretary both knew the real number of miners trapped underground and aided the mine operator in sending family members of the trapped miners to neighboring Inner Mongolia in order to prevent them from speaking to the press.”

“Across Shanxi in the 1990s, one-sixth of rural income was dependent on coal (Zhang Yanan 2000: 37). In Zuoyun, coal was crucial to income growth in the 1980s.”

“Zuoyunlong huangi was a basal hadrosaurid that lived in the late Cretaceous, in what is now Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China. [...]The genus name Zuoyunlong means "Zuoyun dragon," and refers to Zuoyun, where the dinosaur was discovered. The species names huangi is in honor of Mr. Huang Wei-Long "who excavated the first dinosaurs in Zuoyun County and even Shanxi Province in 1957."”

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