Definition of "Chengkou"

Salt Works CloseHundreds of thousands of workers are report unemployed as a result of the recent closing of the Chengkou saltworks, on the Shensi border of northeast Szechuen, which, closing, many believe, was deliberately engineered by the Kaihsien salt Producers, who were desirous of cornering that market.The trouble is aggravated by the Government's order that only salt produced in Kaihsien is to be sold in Chengkou. Decidedly angry at the state of affairs, the residents of Chengkou have declared that rather than buy Kaihsien salt, they would go without any salt.

1936 October 28, “Resident Deputy of French F. O.”, in North-China Herald‎, volume CCI, number 3612, Shanghai, page 228, column 3

Zhu Zhao-ling and others (1977) report a section at Chengkou County, northeastern Sichuan, and Ni Yu-nan (1978) revised the graptolite zones of the type Lungmachi Formation.

1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China‎, Geological Society of America, page 4

On Aug. 29, party officials from Chengkou county appeared in Pingba, arrested Wei and stopped the vote.

2003 September 27, John Pomfret, “Taking on the Party in Rural China”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 02 April 2023‎

A bus fell into a river ditch in Miaoba Township, Chengkou County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Wednesday, local authorities said.

2022 May 18, “Bus falls into river ditch in southwest China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎, archived from the original on 15 June 2022