yongshan

Example Sentences

• "The party committee of Yungshan County wanted 500 militiamen from five slightly affected communes to bring relief materials to the seriously struck communes."
• "A STRONG EARTHQUAKE of 7.1 magnitude struck the high mountains and deep valleys in southwest China at 03.25 hours on May 11, 1974. Five counties, Yungshan, Takuan, Yenchin and Suichiang in Yunnan province and Leipo county in Szechuan province, were affected.[…] Travelling with the delegation, I arrived at the Unity People’s Commune in Yungshan county, the most heavily-hit area, early on the morning of May 14."
• "Du, the Party boss of Yongshan County in Yunnan Province, went drinking one afternoon and evening in July 2000 in the town of Jingxin with other cadres after finishing a Three Stresses meeting, held to improve internal Party discipline. He and his colleagues spent in one afternoon and evening what the average household of four in his poor rural county earns in a full year."
• "Plans have been drawn up to build a hydropower station in Xiangjiabain (a location between Yunnan Province’s Shuifu County and Sichuan Province’s Yibin City) in 2004, and a power station in Xiluodu in the upper reaches of Xiangjiaba (a location between Yunnan Province’s Yongshan County and Sichuan Province’s Leibo County) in 2006."
• "Sometimes wives were sold for similar sums: for example, in a 1798 case from Yongshan County, Yunnan, a man pressed by poverty sold his wife (aged 25 sui, with a proven record of fertility) for just five taels of silver."