Zhuzhou

alternative dated Chuchow · alternative Chu-chou

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

   In Hunan Province, a spill occurred Jan. 4 in the industrial city of Zhuzhou after workers cleaning up a wastewater ditch mistakenly diverted the sewage water into the nearby Xiangjiang River.

   2006 January 12, Jim Yardley, “China Chemical Spills Spur Plan to Guard Water Supply”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 May 2021

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   A June 27 Hsinhua report tells how 8,000 young people have been successfully "settled" and "re-educated" on the outskirts of Chuchou, a city in Hunan province. Success was achieved in this task because "the Chuchou municipal committee of the Chinese Communist party raised its consciousness of the struggle between the two lines during the great movement to criticize Lin Piao and rectify the style of work."

   [1974 August 5, Peter Green, “The Big-Character Posters on the Walls of China”, in Intercontinental Press, volume 12, number 30, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1075, columns 2, 3

   In the 1960s it was reported that Chinese uranium ore was only partly processed at the Chuchou Uranium Processing Plant in Hunan Province and was then sent to Czechoslovakia for further concentration.

   [1978, Doing Business with the People's Republic of China: Industries and Markets, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 280

   In May, authorities in China’s southern Hunan province detained Chen after he made a posting on social media commemorating the crackdown. He described being harassed by state security police over the years during “sensitive periods” around the anniversary date. The rights group Chinese Human Rights Defenders said he was believed to have been held in a detention center in Zhuzhou, in Hunan, shortly after.

   2023 September 22, Huizhong Wu, Johnson Lai, “A Chinese dissident in transit at a Taiwan airport pleads for help in seeking asylum”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2023, World News