Definition of "Luliang"
Luliang1
proper noun
A county of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
Quotations
The regional paper Yünnan Daily also carried a report in this respect, as follows: "The Party committee for the Ch'aot'ieh commune in Luliang county, Yünnan province, has been educating the Party members in Party policy, fundamental Party knowledge and current situation, thereby raising their ideological and policy level, through such methods as the opening of training classes...
1961, The Peking Informers, volume 3, Continental Research Institute, page 11
Yunnan. Since the cultural revolution, this province has completed 31 medium-sized and small chemical fertilizer plants; […] Luliang County chemical fertilizer works was founded by 39 poor and lower-middle peasants with five earthen jars; […]
1972 March, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, British Broadcasting Corporation, page 14
Many areas have not had rain since at least October. Here in Luliang County, about 70 miles east of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, no rain has fallen since August. […] In mid-March, China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, made a three-day tour of Yunnan, including Luliang County, to pledge government help and urge new water-conservation efforts. […] A several-hour tour of Luliang County on Sunday suggested the drought had struck in patchwork fashion.
2010 April 4, Michael Wines, Li Bibo, “Spring Harvest of Debt for Parched Farms in Southern China”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 April 2010, Asia Pacific, page A4
In particular, my trip to a Sierbao village in Luliang county, Yunnan province, left a deep impression. Luliang is about 135 kilometres northeast of the provincial capital Kunming.This is one of China's major tourist routes, served by a brand new national highway. It took me just two hours by bus from Kunming to Luliang county.
2012 September 22, Zhou Xun, “In the villages, a China still living in want”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 26 May 2020, Opinion
The bureau in September said Luliang County in Yunnan province had inflated its first-half industrial output and fixed-asset investment data by more than 100 percent.
2013 November 15, “China's official copper data overstating output, say smelters”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 24 October 2023
Luliang2
proper noun
Alternative form of Lüliang (prefecture-level city)
Quotations
China’s remaining poverty is primarily rural, mainly scattered among remote, mountainous, and minority nationality areas in the northwest and southwest. To address this challenge China is shifting from regional development projects to household-based initiatives that are increasingly directed at women. One especially successful example has been the poverty alleviation program sponsored by the Luliang Prefecture Women’s Federation (LPWF) in Shansi province.
2002, Sam Daley-Harris, Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families, Kumarian Press, page 137
In recognition of the special nature of wasteland, local peasants in Luliang prefecture of Shanxi Province took a bold initiative that deviated from the norm of the household responsibility system and sold the rights to use collectively owned wasteland through a competitive bidding process and for a term of longer than thirty years.
2009, George C. S. Lin, Developing China: Land, politics and social conditions (Routledge Contemporary China Series), Routledge, page 159
“Inspectors must keep high standards and not let violators pass the surprise checks,” said a statement from the environmental bureau of Luliang city, adding that anyone who is found forging emission data will be given a heavier punishment.Seventy inspectors in Luliang have been dispatched to carry out checks up until Aug. 19. The Beijing-lead inspections are slated to start in Shanxi province from Aug. 20.An official from the Luliang environmental bureau told Reuters a meeting was held by the Shanxi provincial government several days ago that gathered representatives from all cities to discuss the regional checks.
2018 July 26, Muyu Xu, Josephine Mason, “China's Shanxi rolls out regional environmental checks, mills cut output”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 May 2022, Environment
Police in the central Chinese province of Shanxi have detained a 27-year-old man accused of killing at least seven people, four of them by driving into a group of pedestrians and cars.Authorities in the city of Luliang said on Sunday that the suspect, identified only by his surname Guo, allegedly went to the home of a 21-year-old married woman in Xing county at around 2pm on Saturday, killing her husband, son and mother-in-law.
2023 May 14, Minnie Chan, “Chinese police detain suspect after 7 dead in home and car attacks”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 14 May 2023, Politics
Alternative form of Lüliang (mountain range)
Quotations
In Taiyuan, the provincial capital, I was told that a new field of high-quality coking coal was being developed in Gujiao, 56 kilometers away.[...]This was intriguing, and I left for Gujiao by bus, accompanied by a comrade from the provincial coal bureau. We first crossed the Luliang mountains, 1,800 meters above sea level. In the valley, a 47-kilometer electric railway has been built, running through 18 tunnels and over seven bridges across the winding Fenhe River.
1981 July, Tianshen Wen, “Shanxi Province- China's Largest Coal Base”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXX, number 7, page 16
By 2005, most of the indigenous ovens in Shanxi Province are closed, although Xinhua News posted an article in October 2003 showing the pollution from indigenous ovens still in use in the Luliang Mountain area in Shanxi Province (Xinhua News, 2003 21:58, accessed December 2003, http://www.sina.com.cn).
2006, Hao Chen, Karen R. Polenske, “Alternative Cokemaking Technologies in Shanxi Province”, in Karen R. Polenske, editor, The Technology-Energy-Environment-Health (TEEH) Chain in China: A Case Study of Cokemaking, Springer, page 26