Definition of "Pingdingshan"

The explosion rocked a coal pit in the city of Pingdingshan, in Henan Province, about 1 a.m. on Tuesday, a city spokesman told the official Xinhua news agency.

2009 September 8, Mark McDonald, “Gas Explosion Kills 35 Miners and Traps 44, China Says”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2018, Asia Pacific‎

Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel.

2013, Xun Zhou, “Unnatural Disasters”, in Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History‎, Yale University Press, page 112