Definition of "Heyang"
Heyang
proper noun
A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Quotations
The most direct road from Hanch'eng to Hsian lies through the cities of T'ungchou Fu and Weinan Hsien across the plains along the Yellow River, but we followed a slightly longer route further north across the loess uplands via Hoyang, Ch'engch'eng, P'uch'eng, Fup'ing, and Sanyuan, a week's journey by a good and mostly level trail. […] Hoyang is a fairly large city, the centre of a first class district; but it is a poor-looking place inside, like most of these purely agricultural prairie towns, and is not to be compared with Hanch'eng, which probably does a good deal of trade with prosperous Shansi.]
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 79–80
As a result, some 1,000 activists in reading Chairman Mao's works have emerged in Hoyang County, Shensi Province.]
, “Local Areas Improve War Veterans' Treatment”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 18, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, page CCC 4
Heyang county was selected as the project site because of its representative qualities.[...]Weinan 渭南 municipality, in which Heyang county is situated, is the most densely populated of the province's lower-level and mainly agricultural municipalities.
2011, Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China, Cambridge University Press, page 59