Definition of "Guyuan"

Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy.

2004, Peter Ho, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture‎, page 125‎

Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in the 1980s.

2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 October 2016, World‎