Zongyang

alternative Tsung-yang

1. A county of Tongling, Anhui, China.

   Tongcheng As the crow flies, it was about one hundred and thirty miles from Nanjing to the town of Tongcheng. However, not being equipped with wings, Fang Yizhi and his servant had taken a river boat up to Zongyang, the nearest Yangtze port.

   2019, 1636: The China Venture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL

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   The Yangwan cement plant with an annual capacity of 3.1 million tons will be built in Wuhu, a port city on the Chang Jiang river; the Wannan cement plant with a capacity of 2.54 million tons a year will be constructed in Chizhou city; the Zongyang cement plant to turn out 1.5 million tons a year will be built in Zongyang county; and the Wanxi cement plant to produce 300,000 tons annually will be constructed in Anqing, another port city on the Chang Jiang river.

   1994 August 16 [1994 August 16], “Anhui To Build Cement Production Belt Along Chang Jiang”, in Daily Report: China, number 158, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs: East Region, page 46, column 2

   Migrants from Zongyang were also mostly in commerce, with very distant destinations. Men from one of the townships in Zongyang tended to do interior house decoration in Beijing, and therefore almost all their wives and children had been in Beijing at least once.

   2004, On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 221