Definition of "Fangcheng"

The raid was conducted in a village about 27 miles south of Fangcheng, a city in Henan province in central China.

1994 February 16, Daniel Southerl, “CHINESE DETAIN 7 CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS -- 3 FROM U.S.”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 29 October 2023‎

Quan Zhaoquan remembers that period well. A resident of Guan Zhuang village in Yangji Township, in Henan’s Fangcheng County, he was the village leader in 1968, a position frequently targeted by Red Guards looking for “capitalist-roaders,” as followers of Mao’s political target Liu Shaoqi were often called.

2003, David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power‎, Regnery Publishing, page 75

Guangdong Chant Group Inc. :* Says it signed biomass power project with investment at about 320 million yuan in Fangcheng County, Henan Province

2016 November 23, “BRIEF-Guangdong Chant Group signs biomass power project, investment about 320 mln yuan”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 24 November 2016, Consumer Goods and Retail‎

Finally, at the beginning of September, the commanders of the two companies of Kwangsi troops defending the unwalled district city of Fang-ch’eng, west of Ch’in-chou, abruptly defected to the revolutionary side. Why they defected is not clear. A native of Kwangsi himself, Wang may have played upon their common provincial ties; or he may have bribed them. In any case, with their help, Wang Ho-shun and several hundred followers captured Fang-ch’eng without a fight on September 3.]

, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, page 115

The agency also said there was an attack in Fangcheng County in Guanxi[sic – meaning Guangxi] Province and artillery fire directed against Yunnan Province

1979 August 25, “China Accuses Vietnam of Raids And Artillery Attack Near Border”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2018-03-10, page 4‎