gaoling

Example Sentences

• "On 22 January, 140 young couples held a collective marriage ceremony in Kaoling County.[…] In the struggle to expose and criticize the gang of four, the Kaoling County CCP Committee has resolved to grasp destroying the old and establishing the new, holding thrifty weddings and conducting education in late marriage as a major matter."
• "The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power to the elevator a month ago without checking if anyone was inside In a statement posted Saturday, the Gaoling district government said two maintenance workers turned off the power source on Jan. 30 to the elevator in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch."
• "But now this death in Xi’an — the northwestern city famed for its ancient entombed terra-cotta warriors — has stirred protest and a nationwide roar of anger by people furious that lax building management that can turn trivial acts, like riding an elevator, into fatal traps, news reports and Internet accounts said on Monday. Hundreds of residents in the Gaoling District of the city, where the woman died confined between the 10th and 11th floors of her apartment building, gathered to rally last week, according to photographs and accounts on Chinese websites."
• "In October 2016, authorities cracked down on a citizen protest involving thousands in Gaoling district of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, also over a planned incinerator. Public security bureau officials reportedly took hundreds of participants into custody, beat protestors, did not allow journalists to cover the demonstrations, and censored internet postings (CHRD 2017b)."