Guyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 固原 (Gùyuán).

Guyuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • [1978 July 12 [3 May 1978], Huo, Shih-lien, “Continue to Firmly Grasp and Implement the Party's Policy on Cadres”, in Translations from Red Flag‎, number 5, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 36:

     In Kuyuan Prefecture in the Liupan Mountains, through which the Workers and Peasants Red Army led by Chairman Mao passed during its Long March, revolution and production were in a backward state for a long time because its leading group was disrupted by agents of the "gang of four" in our region.]

   • [1979 March 12, Chün Hsing, “Chinese Bureaucrats Admit Growing Problems in Countryside”, in Intercontinental Press combined with Inprecor‎, volume 17, number 9, ISSN 0162-5594, OCLC 4175202, page 255, column 3:

     Kuyuan County in Ningsia Province, which in the past was famous for food production, with an output of 820 catties per capita in 1949, decreased to a per capita output of 380 catties in 1977.]

   • 2004, Ho, Peter, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture‎, →ISBN, ISSN 1462-219X, LCCN 2003011126, OCLC 493233680, OL 9887791M, page 125‎:

     Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy.

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