zhidan

Example Sentences

• "Pao-an was a county in the northwestern part of Shensi Province. It is now called Chihtan County. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had its headquarters there from early July 1936 to January 1937. Later it moved to Yenan."
• "With so many able-bodied men and women fighting in guerrilla units, old women and children had to work. For example, in “Chih-tan county of district one, a 52 year old woman in Ts’ai-she-p’ing village had reclaimed about two acres of land within only one month.”"
• "The work team announced that the provincial CCP Committee has approved the Yenan Prefectural CCP Committee's massive soliciting instructions. It also announced that the provincial CCP Committee has approved several important decisions of the Chihtan County CCP Committee which had already been approved by the Yenan Prefectural CCP Committee."
• "A PetroChina unit in Shaanxi has been shut down after oil from a ruptured pipeline contaminated a source of drinking water for 200,000 residents of the city of Yanan. The 100-kilometre pipeline, which runs upstream of the Wangyao Reservoir in Zhidan county, was damaged during a landslide sometime before Monday, when the leak was discovered, the local government said.[…] The landslide that ruptured the pipeline was one among many caused by days of torrential rainfall during the past two weeks. Zhidan county received more than 20cm of rainfall - or 4½ times the rainfall in the same period last year."
• "Those county leaders who resisted were soon removed. For example, the county leaders in Zhidan county in Shannxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) province (Zweig, 1983) and Jimo county in Shandong province (Han, 2008) were replaced by those who supported decommunization."