Definition of "Dongsheng"

Most villages subscribe to local newspapers, but when they arrive their contents are no longer news; it takes seven days to deliver newspaper from the League centre, Dongsheng, and more than 20 days for newspapers to arrive from outside the area.

1999, Hong Jiang, “Human driving forces of environmental change”, in The Ordos Plateau of China: An Endangered Environment‎, United Nations University Press, page 80

In 2006, the headquarters of the local government was moved to Kangbashi from the Dongsheng District, 20 miles north; bus service between Kangbashi and Dongsheng was allegedly cut off so that Ordos’s public officials would be forced to take up residence in the new town.

2015 March 6, Jody Rosen, “The Colossal Strangeness of China’s Most Excellent Tourist City”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 September 2015‎