Definition of "Shaoyang"

Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.

1939 February 4, C. Y. W. [孟長泳] Meng, “China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously”, in The China Weekly Review‎, volume 87, number 10, pages 298–299

Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.

2010 June 13, David Barboza, “In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 31 January 2013, Global Business‎

The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.

2021 June 9, “Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 25 August 2022‎