Zhongyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 中原 (Zhōngyuán).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔŋ.juˌɑn/

Zhongyuan

1. A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • 2012, Jin, Zhenbao, “From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker—On the Role of the Supreme People's Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China”, in Lei Chen; C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, editor, Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives‎, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, ISSN 2213-4875, LCCN 2012037345, OCLC 1268116393, page 48:

     As early as 2002, the People's Court of Zhongyuan District in Zhengzhou, He'nan^{[sic – meaning Henan]} Province, a court at the basic level, issued Several Provisions on the Application of the Precedent Decisions Mechanism (Guanyu Shixing Xianli Panjue Zhidu de Ruogan Guiding), under which the adjudication committee of the court selected and issued precedent decisions.

• Central Plain