Qin Mountains

At first glance, the residents of Dragon Range seem unlikely victims of industrial pollution. Here in the Qin Mountains, about 600 miles southwest of Beijing, people cultivate lush fields of corn and wheat carved into the mountainside like stairs.

2001 November 5, Philip P. Pan, “Cancer-Stricken Chinese Village Tries to Pierce a Wall of Silence”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2023

To determine which cities qualified for free heating, planners employed the traditional division between northern and southern China that runs along the line of the Qin Mountains and Huai River. The Huai-Qinling line is an arbitrary boundary dating to imperial times, though it corresponds roughly to the 33rd parallel of latitude and the zero degrees Celsius isotherm in January.

2014 May 21, John Kemp, “COLUMN-For polluted China, gas is a matter of life or death: Kemp”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 May 2014, Energy