Taole

Since the system of fixing farm output quotas on a household basis was introduced in the spring of this year, 21 production teams of Taole County, Ningxia, have increased their total summer grain output by 65.3 percent over last year.[…]Taole County has a total of 79 production teams.

1981 September 1 [1981 August 15], “Grain Output”, in China Report: Agriculture, number 162, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, translation of original by Beijing Xinhua Domestic Service (in Chinese), →OCLC, page 24

But the pioneers were shocked when they arrived five days later at what was to be their new home on the border of the Gobi Desert. One group of 800 sent to Taole County in Ningxia were so distressed at the barren and windswept appearance of the land that 361 of them tried immediately to go home. They were blocked at the crossing of the Yellow River, but 46 of them found their way across the Inner Mongolian deserts and mountains to report to their fellow villagers what lay in store for them.

2001, Judith Shapiro, “Population, Dams, and Political Repression”, in Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61