Sanmenxia

alternative San-men-hsia · alternative Sanmenhsia

1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

   China's largest hydroelectric station is under construction at Sanmensia, and will supply power to the industrial centers of Loyang, Sian and Chengchow.

   [1961 January [1960], “Basic Shifts in the Structure and Distribution of China's Industry”, in Soviet Geography: Review & Translation, volume II, number 1, New York: American Geographical Society, sourced from Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, seriya geografiya, 1960, No. 2, Pages 28-32 (Вестник Московского университета), translation of original by I. Kh. Ovdiyenko (in Russian), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52

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   Several vehicles were reported to have fallen from the elevated section of the highway after a truck laden with fireworks exploded, severely damaging a roughly 80-meter (262-foot) section of the road. The incident occurred near the city of Sanmenxia, to the east of Xi'an, in the inland, eastern province of Henan.

   2013 February 1, “China highway collapse”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024

   Law enforcement in the central Chinese city of Sanmenxia, along the Yellow River, ran a system that over the course of a month this year screened whether residents were Uighurs 500,000 times.

   2019 April 14, Paul Mozur, “One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2019, Technology