Baiyin

Proper noun

Baiyin

1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
   • Metallic minerals are associated mainly with the copper-mining center of Paiyin, 45 miles northeast of Lanchow. Paiyin was raised to the status of city in 1958, after construction of the Lanchow-Paotow railroad had provided access to the deposit.[1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Kansu Corridor”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 294
   • Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
     The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was...2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2018, Asia Pacific