Lüliang

Proper noun

Lüliang

1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
   • The annual losses of topsoil are now over 10,000 tons per km² in Yulin and Yan’an prefectures in Shaanxi and in Lüliang and Xinxian prefectures in Shanxi, and they average 4,000-5,000 tons per km² a year throughout most of the region, whose most eroded parts are now just a lifeless maze of deeply...1984, Vaclav Smil, The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42
   • As stated above, Lüliang prefecture in Shanxi province is the region where the first wasteland auctions were organized in the early 1980s2004, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129
2. A mountain range in Shanxi, China.
   • My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81
   • An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and...2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives...