Xin'an

One village in Xin’an county in Henan province has 120 women of childbearing age. Except for five women who are sterile, the rest each have three, four, or even five children. The husbands of these women are prosperous, and willing to accept financial penalties in order to have more children. “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs. We don’t mind paying,” say the village farmers.

1989 December, Shulin Deng, “Sound the Alarm on Population Growth”, in Current World Leaders, volume 32, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1038

At midday Wednesday, a few hours after the video began circulating online, the government of Xin’an County, in the city of Luoyang, announced that Mr. Si had been suspended from office and that the county discipline inspection commission had begun an investigation into his conduct.

2015 July 29, Austin Ramzy, “After Appearing Drunk on Television, Chinese Official Faces Inquiry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022, Sinosphere

In China, the compilation of local chronicles has a history for more than 2,000 years and can be traced back to the Qin dynasty. The last chronicles to include Hong Kong were completed in 1819, when it was still part of Xinan county during the Qing dynasty.

[2020 December 28, Ng Kang-chung, Jeffie Lam, Robbie Hu, “First volume of ‘Chronicles of Hong Kong’ launched as part of HK$780 million, eight-year project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2020, Politics