Yangjiang

alternative Yang-chiang

1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China, formerly a county.

   The party committee of (Takung) commune in Yangchiang County has reemployed a number of secretaries of the production brigade party branches who were sacked by the gang of four.

   [1978 May 2 [1978 April 30], “Kwangtung Commune Reemploys Gang of Four Victims”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 85, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 4

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   The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.

   2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022

   Synonyms: Yeungkong