Pingshan

Ch'in-huang-tao Shih-chia-chuang is the location of the Hopeh provincial revolutionary committee. Its textile, iron and steel, machine, and chemical industries are developed. Hsi-pai-p'o in P'ing-shan County, about 70 kilometers or more to the northwest of the city, was the site of the historic Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, which was personally presided over and convened by Chairman Mao.

[1973 February 16 [1972 February], “Miscellaneous Geographical Data on PRC Published”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 214, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking, Shih-chieh Ti-t'u-ts'e (World Atlas), translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 3

THE remains of the capital of the State of Chungshan founded by nomadic people from the north provide additional insight into life in the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.). Excavation was done between 1974 and 1977 in present-day Pingshan county, which is just northwest of the city of Shihchiachuang in western Hopei province.

1979 January, “Capital of One of the Warring States”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1

And the hotels for pilgrims at Mt. Wu-t’ai were not the only ones in China: at the Yün-chü monastery of Mount Fang (in P’ing-shan county in modern Hopeh) there was an “equitable refectory” (i-fan t’ing).¹⁴⁹ Some chapels were even constructed for the specific purpose of providing a shelter to travelers.

[1995, Jacques Gernet, “The Circuit of Giving”, in Franciscus Verellen, transl., Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (Studies in Asian Culture), New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225

Two sisters died after drinking the yogurt, which was placed with a notebook and a pencil in a plastic bag on the way to the other kindergarten in Pingshan County. Shijiazhuang Intermediate People’s Court in northern China found both the headmaster and the accomplice guilty of poisoning and sentenced them to death, CCTV said.

2014 April 5, “China sentences 2 to death in fatal poisoning”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2022