Yangquan

alternative Yang-ch'üan · alternative Yangchüan

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

   Yangchuan, the leading anthracite producer in China with twelve pairs of mine shafts, fulfilled its 1975 target forty-one days ahead of time and probably produced 7 to 9 million tons during the year.

   [1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52

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   The mayors of Handan in Hebei province and Jincheng and Yangquan in Shanxi province were given the orders after being summoned to a meeting at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Beijing on Thursday to account for their actions during a recent campaign against smog.

   2018 May 2, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China bans new polluting projects in three cities: ministry”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 May 2023