YANGQUAN

yängˈchüänˈ, city (1994 est. pop. 402,300), E central Shanxi prov., China, on the highway and railroad linking Taiyuan with Hebei prov. The center of an important coal-producing area, it is a growing industrial city. Iron is also mined nearby.

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books on: Yangquan  - 10 results

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China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The Development of the New Private Business Sector
Book by Barbara Krug; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Business Enterprises--China, Businessmen--China, China--Economic Conditions--2000-, Entrepreneurship--China, Small Business--China
...Manager, Qianheng Industrial Company, Yangquan Zhang Zhengwu was the executive of...Xiaqian Village, in the suburbs of Yangquan where he was also the village head and CCP branch secretary. 19 Yangquan is a major coal producing city in east...
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Hu Yao Bang: A Chinese Biography
Book by William A. Wycoff, Timothy Grieve Cheek, Rudolf G. Wagner; M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988
Subjects: Hu, Yao-Pang, Statesmen--China--Biography
...banks of the Hutuo River, moving separately to Shouyang and Yangquan. At the same time, under Chen Zhengxiang and Hu Yaobang...other closed in, encircling the Shouyang vicinity west of Yangquan." 4 Between April 9 and May 10, the Communists had wiped...
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The Chinese Coal Industry: An Economic History
Book by Elspeth Thomson; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Coal Mines And Mining--China--History, Coal Trade--China--History
...Jiangsu), Hegang (Heilongjiang), Fengfeng (Hebei), and Yangquan (Shanxi). 16 The northwest, northeast, and east regions...62 per cent at Jixi (Heilongjiang), 62.0 per cent at Yangquan (Shanxi), 49.4 at Datong (Shanxi), and 47.0 per cent...
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Globalisation, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry
Book by Huaichuan Rui; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Coal Mines And Mining--China, Coal Trade--China, Industrial Policy--China
...province, the countrys largest coal-producing province, as an example, only eight key SOE coal companies (Datong, PinShuo, Yangquan, Xishan, Fenxi, Luan, Jincheng, and Xuangang), and Shanxi Unified Allocated Coal Sale Company, Shanxi Coal Transport...
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China's Poor Regions: Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform, and Urbanisation
Book by Mei Zhang; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Rural Poor--China, Rural-Urban Migration--China
...in northern Shanxi is the countrys biggest coal mine. It is also one of the biggest coal mines in the world. Datong produces mainly power-generating coal known in China and abroad for its superior quality. The Yangquan coalmine is the
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journal articles on: Yangquan  - 2 results

 
 
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China's Cambodia Strategy
Journal article by Paul Marks; Parameters, Vol. 30, 2000
Subjects: Cambodia, Cambodian foreign relations--China, China, Chinese foreign relations--Cambodia, International relations--Southeast Asia, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--International aspects
...Xumao City, Henan Province, visited in March 1999. * Yangquan City International Economic and Technical Cooperation Company...signed a project agreement with Phnom Penh in March 1999. * Yangquan City, Shanxi Province established a representative office...
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Identification of Leadership among the KMT Yunnanese Chinese in Northern Thailand
Journal article by Wen-Chin Chang; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: Chinese in Thailand--Social aspects, Leadership--Social aspects, Thailand--Race relations, Village communities--Social aspects
...66.) See Hill, Familiar Strangers and Merchants and Migrants. (67.) Wang and Zhang, Mabang Wenhua, p. 113; Hu Yangquan, Yunnan mabang The Yunnanese caravans (Fuzhou: Fuzhou renmin chubanshe, 1999), p. 66. (68.) Y.C. Ambrose King...


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magazine articles on: Yangquan  - 1 result

 
 
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Economic Development Policies for Central and Western China
Magazine article by Nancy Huang, Joie Ma, Kyle Sullivan; The China Business Review, Vol. 37, November 2010
Subjects: Area planning & development, China, Economic development, Foreign investment, Incentives
...Jiangxi Province Jmgdezhen, Jiujiang, Nanchang, and Pingxiang; and * Shanxi Province Changzhi, Datong, Taiyuan, and Yangquan. Companies operating m the agricultural products and processing, auto, defense, equipment manufacturing, highand new...


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encyclopedia articles on: Yangquan  - 2 results

 
 
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Yangquan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YANGQUAN yang chuan , city (1994 est. pop. 402,300), E central Shanxi prov., China, on the highway and railroad linking Taiyuan...
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Yang-Chuan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YANG-CHUAN see Yangquan , China. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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