Holingol

Proper noun

Holingol

1. A county-level city of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
   • The system is located north of Huolinguole city, in Inner Mongolia, China, where water is in serious shortage due to much less precipitation (389 mm yr−1) than evaporation (1495 mm yr−1) and where trees can not grow normally without irrigation.[1997 September, Ziqing Ou, Tieheng Sun, Peijun Li, Ayfer Yediler, Guifen Yang, Antonius Kettrup, “A production-scale ecological engineering forest system for the treatment and reutilization of...
   • A few years after the smelter opened, herders in the area said that their sheep began falling sick, with jaws so painful that they could not eat. Soon, thousands of their animals had died. When they complained, the government simply arrested five of their leaders and forced the others to resettle...
   • In Inner Mongolia’s Holingol, the Huomei Hongjun factory is one of the largest aluminum smelters in the world.2015 April 7, Simon Denyer, “In China’s Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2015, Asia & Pacific