Chaoyang

alternative Ch'ao-yang

1. Any of several towns, cities and districts in China:
   1. A prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China.
   2. A district of Beijing, China.

      Six new cases were found in Beijing's central districts of Chaoyang and Haidian. China is seeing a spike in cases due to domestic travel in the past month.

      2021 November 11, “Coronavirus digest: Germany reports new record-high case numbers”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2021

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      Peiping's public security bureau has been paralyzed by mob actions, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei. The report said that since the Tienanmen uprising last April 6 each branch of the city's security bureau has been raided by mobs three to five times. The Chaoyang branch of the bureau received the brunt of the mob attacks, the report said. It was visited by angry rioters nine times in a single month, and 14 of its officials were killed.

      1977 March 6, “Mobs raid offices of public security bureau”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 9, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

      Seventy people have tested positive in Beijing since Friday. In the capital’s fashionable Chaoyang district, home to most of those cases, the government initially ordered all 3.5 million residents to take three P.C.R. tests over the next five days.

      2022 April 25, Nancy Wartik, “China and the World Wait”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2022, Briefing

      Beijing reported 50 local cases on Thursday, a day after it said people in Chaoyang, its most populous district, should work from home.[…] But Feng Yinhao, a massage parlour employee in Chaoyang district, said Beijing was "still normal" compared to the country's largest city, Shanghai.

      2022 May 5, “Millions in Beijing urged to work from home to fight Covid”, in France 24, archived from the original on 05 May 2022

   3. A county of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

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      In Chaoyang, a hilly county in western Liaoning bordering the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the dryness has become a way of life. 'It's no use despairing,' said farmer Mr Xing, leaning on his bicycle by the roadside. 'We plant drought-resistant crops like cotton, peanuts and sweet potato.' Covering the soil with plastic sheets also helped retain moisture, he said. Like migratory birds, the cloud-seeding plane of the 13th Division of the air force arrived last week for its six-month stay in the county. For more than 10 years, cloud-seeding has increased the annual rainfall by 55 mm, according to Chaoyang county administrator Sun Yi.

      2003 April 13, Nailene Chou, “Drought strangles Liaoning's farms and factories”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025

   4. A district of Changchun, Jilin, China
   5. A town in Wuxi, Chongqing, China

alternative Ch'ao-yang

1. A district of Shantou, Guangdong, China.

   Dr. R. E. Worley was appointed to this work in 1903, but his devoted, self-sacrificing service was brief, for in the summer of 1907 he was drowned while crossing Swatow Bay after his regular weekly visit to Chaoyang, where he had a dispensary.

   1907, Missions in China, Boston, Mass.: American Baptist Missionary Union, →OCLC, page 46

   Synonyms: Teoyeo