Zhumadian

alternative Chu-ma-tien

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

   The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.

   [1981, Dan N. Jacobs, “Going Home”, in Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272

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   The Chumatien prefecture is 14,710 square kilometres in extent. It has 773,330 hectares of arable land, 4,000 hectares of which is. in hilly country, 66,670 in marsh, and 166,670 in plains. Its two main rivers are the Hung and the Ju, which join together at the Anhwei boundary, and flow into the Hwai River.

   [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1

   The size of the protest in Suixian County is extraordinary, but it is not an isolated phenomenon. Recently, farmers from the villages of Chenglao and Wenlou have been detained in the city of Zhumadian, where they went to press local officials for more help. Wenlou, the only village in Henan that the government has acknowledged by name to have an AIDS problem, has become something of a showcase for the disease, its AIDS victims visited by officials from Beijing and given a clinic and a modicum of free medical care. But villagers say the drugs dispensed there are worthless against their disease, and at the end of November eight villagers with H.I.V. marched into the Zhumadian health office and refused to leave without a promise of more help.

   2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World

   Conditions vary across the vast agricultural belt. In Henan province, often called China's granary, a farmer surnamed Ma who runs a 50-acre (20.23 hectares) farm in Xinxiang said his output held steady because of irrigation. But damage was clear elsewhere in the province. In Zhumadian, another farmer, named Zhang, said he harvested 1.65 acres of wheat on May 23, more than a week earlier than usual due to the heat. Zhang, who spoke over the phone, said his yield was down 40%, similar to 2023 when floods led to sprouting and blight.

   2025 June 4, Ella Cao, Florence Lo, Xiaoyu Yin, “Drought bakes China's wheat belt, slashing harvests for some”, in Tony Munroe, Kate Mayberry, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025