Wanrong

Proper noun

Wanrong

1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
   • According to the statistics of Wanjung County, of the 34,000 people who had received instruction in reading by October 1958, one-third had again become illiterate, and the other two-thirds were unable even to read newspapers.[1966, George P. Jan, “Mass Education in the Chinese Communes”, in George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, San Francisco, Cali.: Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 511
   • Also in November, in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, in central China, two policemen were killed when enraged construction workers attacked a police station after a traffic dispute.2004 December 31, Joseph Kahn, “China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2018, Asia Pacific
2. A mountain indigenous township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
   • In Hualien County’s Wanrong Township, a group of six people camping were unable to cross the surging Hongye Stream in their SUVs, and requested assistance from the fire department.
     Hualien County Fire Department deployed an excavator to cross the stream to rescue the four men and two women.2021 October 18, Phillip Charlier, “Disaster-level wind and rain takes Taiwan by surprise as tropical storm passes by without making landfall”, in Taiwan English News, archived from the original on...