Ganquan

In the Kanchuan-Laoshan campaign, this army group wiped out most of the enemy 110th Division, killed its divisional commander and in a subsequent action destroyed four battalions of the enemy’s 107th Division at Yulinchiao, Kanchuan County.

[1965 [1935 December 27], “On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism”, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 176

The Twenty-sixth Army now freed Yenchang, Anting, Chinchien, and thus a large area round Yenan was liberated. The people were in control in Kanchuan and Fuhsian, and then in August of that year, the North-eastern Army arrived under Chang Hsueh-hang, the Young Marshal, and their slogan was 'Root out the communist bands in a month'.

Report from a Chinese Village

[1965 [1963], Jan Myrdal, quoting Pai Yu-teh, translated by Maurice Michael, Rapport från kinesisk [Report from a Chinese Village], New York: Vintage Books, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 52

In this subspecies, the petals are usually white with a large, dark purple blotch at the base, but in the Longbagou Mountain, Xiashiwan^([sic – meaning Xiasiwan]) Township (Ganquan County, Shaanxi Province), we found a population (D. Y. Hong, K. Y. Pan & Y. Ren H06003) in which white-flowered and red- flowered individuals coexisted.

2010, De-Yuan Hong, Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 83

According to the 2000 Census for Shaanxi province, Hu county near the provincial capital of Xian municipality has over 250,000 residents, while the geographically larger, but more remote Ganquan county has only 30,000.

2010, John James Kennedy, “Rural China: Reform and Resistance”, in William A. Joseph, editor, Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227