Heshun

He·shun
H4E1S1H4U1N1

proper noun

A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Ho-shun

  1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.

    A cluster of quakes ranging between magnitude 4.8 and 5.2 struck Heshun county in Shanxi on June 5.

    2011 November 27, Raymond Li, “A dying art that could reduce tragedy”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2021
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    Shansi Province: Establishment of Tsochuan (1563 2938) County with part of the administrative district of Hoshun County in the Chinchung Special District to become the administrative district of Tsochuan County. The county people's council is to be seated in the former seat of Tsochuan County.

    [1960 April 20 [1960 April 17], “Changes Made in Administrative Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 77, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page BBB 6

    But the additional detail in the tenancy map suggests a subtlety which was missing when we discussed inequality — missing perhaps because we do not have comprehensive hsien level data for the latter variable. That is that within-province variations in tenancy may in some cases yield a positive correlation with Communist influence. For example, not only does the county of Fushih (Yenan) appear darker than the surrounding areas (as we would expect from its rather high equal share percentage), other counties in other base areas show a similar tendency. Foup’ing in northwest Hopei (a county central to the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei base), Hoshun in southeast Shansi (the first county developed for the Shansi-Hopei-Shantung-Honan Border Region), and several of the counties in the north Anhwei bases stand out from their immediate background.

    [1969, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., “The Ecology of Chinese Communist Success: Rural Influence Patterns, 1923-45”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61

    Recent examples of environmental pollution and natural resource degradation issues faced by the investment community, government, and private citizens in China highlight the broad spectrum of China’s environmental and related health challenges. These challenges include drinking water shortages, such as those arising from the massive industrial accident in Chongqing municipality in December 2003."⁴ They also include harmful children’s health situations, such as the high congenital birth defect rates recently recorded in places such as Heshun County in Shanxi Province.⁵

    2005, Richard J. Ferris Jr., Hongjun Zhang, “Environmental Law in the People's Republic of China”, in China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 67

Origin

  1. Mandarin和順 /和顺
  2. EnglishHeshun

From Mandarin 和順 /和顺 (Héshùn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 和順 /和顺
  • 和順 /和顺 (wo⁴ seon⁶)county
Chinese Mandarin 和順 /和顺
  • 和順 /和顺 (Héshùn)county

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