Echeng

alternative Ocheng · alternative O-ch'eng

1. A district of Ezhou, Hubei, China.

   LU KEKE is head of Huarong Commune’s Cultural Center in Echeng county, Hubei province, in central China.

   1982 June, Bao Wenqing, “Devoted to County – and Countryside”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 6, Peking, →OCLC, page 38, column 1

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   Japanese warships were said to have passed the boom at Hwangkang and Ocheng, 95 kilometres downstream below Hankow, and to be about to break the boom at Twanfeng, 70 kms. down river from Hankow.

   [1938 October 23 [1938 October 22], “Rumors of Advance”, in Hong Kong Sunday Herald, volume XII, number 764, sourced from Hankow, →OCLC, page 4, column 6

   Along the 60-mile railroad from the Tayeh iron mines to the Wuhan plant, another small integrated iron and steel complex, with a capacity of 100,000 to 200,000 tons, began to arise in 1958 at Ocheng. This hsien was actually raised to the status of municipality in 1960, but the level of development evidently did not justify such a high administrative level, and Ocheng was returned to hsien status in late 1961.

   [1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Middle Yangtze Plain”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 157

   Yesterday Ms Yuan recalled how she was forced to become what the Japanese called a 'comfort woman' when she left her family in Hankou to work at a Japanese hostel in Echeng in July 1940.

   2005 August 11, “Former sex slave still fighting for apology”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2022

   The Chinese take training in information warfare very seriously. The PLA has conducted several field exercises in recent years. An informaticised people’s warfare network simulation exercise was conducted in the Echeng district of Hubei province.

   2007, John R. Vacca, “How Masqueraders Infiltrate a System”, in Practical Internet Security, Springer, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 217