Definition of "Wuwei"

Now this old-new part of China is having a boom. Building is going on apace in the cities of Wuwei, Changyeh, and Kiuchuan of the Corridor.

1945 June, Walter C. Lowdermilk, “China Fights Erosion with U. S. Aid”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, volume LXXXVII, number 6, Washington, D.C., page 663, column 2

At least 39 people were injured, six of them seriously, in a gasoline bomb explosion at a rural bank branch in a heavily Tibetan area of northwest China’s Gansu Province, a person at the local police station said by telephone, but there were no immediate signs that the attack was politically motivated.The bomb was detonated during a bank meeting on the fourth floor of the building in Wuwei City, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

2011 May 13, Keith Bradsher, “Bank Bombed in Heavily Tibetan Area of China”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 14 May 2011, Asia Pacific‎

But halfway back, he learned that there had been a change in dynasties and decided he would be better off staying where he was. And so Lu Kuang set up his own Silk Road kingdom at Wuwei in the middle of the Kansu Corridor.

2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan‎, Counterpoint, page 172

Two children walk on a flooded playground at a school in Wuwei county, east China's Anhui province August 28, 2007.

2007 August 29, “Predictions off for global warming flood risk”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-01, Pictures