Fengtai

alternative Feng-t'ai

1. A rural settlement, later a town, to the southwest of Beijing city wall, in China.

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   Only Japan, since 1933, had exercised the right of stationing troops at most of the twelve places specified in Article IX. In addition, from the end of 1935 Japan arbitrarily assumed the right of stationing a military force at Tungchow, and from September 1936 at Fengtai. The maintenance of Japanese troops at these two towns was clearly contrary to the provisions of the Boxer Protocol.

   1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 13

2. A district of Beijing, China, with the forementioned town inside as the namesake.

   Local authorities have identified Fengtai district in southern Beijing as the epicentre of a cluster of six new confirmed infections, taking the number of cases in the capital to 34.

   2022 January 23, “Beijing tests 2 million for Covid as Winter Olympics loom”, in France 24, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2022

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   In fact, the existing admission procedures apply only to what are known as “intellectual youth”, that is to say secondary school graduates transferred to the country or a factory, and only students in large towns fall into this category. Fengtai, near Peking, has a population of 150,000 and is nevertheless regarded as belonging to the country, its secondary school graduates being excluded from selection for the universities. On the other hand, secondary school graduates in Peking who have been sent to Fengtai factories are entitled to apply for a university place.

   1977, Marianne Bastid-Bruguière, “Higher Education in the People's Republic of China”, in Science and Technology in the People's Republic of China, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121

   “The circumstances of the criminality were slight and they were able to acknowledge and repent their crimes,” the procuratorate, or prosecutors’ office, of Fengtai district in south Beijing, said of the officers.

   2016 December 23, Chris Buckley, Adam Wu, “No Trial for Beijing Officers Over Death of Environmentalist”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2016

   An outbreak in the Xinfadi wet market, in Fengtai District of southern Beijing, in mid-June led to a complete lockdown of 12 communities near the market and mass testing of over 11 million residents across Beijing by 6 July. A total of 335 new cases were detected.

   2021 May 13, Zhenjie Yang, Guilan Zhu, Linda Chelan Li, Yilong Sheng, “Services and surveillance during the pandemic lockdown: Residents’ committees in Wuhan and Beijing”, in China Information, volume 35, number 3, →DOI, page 425