Fengnan
See also: Feng-nan
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From Mandarin 豐南／丰南 (Fēngnán).
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Fengnan
- A district of Tangshan, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
- 1976 August 1, “M'land quake stirs people's concern here”, in Free China Weekly[1], volume XVII, number 30, Taipei, →OCLC, page 1:
- Quoting documents received from behind the Bamboo Curtain, the sources said that the number of casualties in the area of Tangshan, Peiping, Tientsin and Fengnan “was very great and could not be immediately estimated.”
- 1976 August 16, Ross H. Munro, “LONG QUAKE ALERT ENDED FOR PEKING”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 March 2023, page 7[3]:
- The alert technically ended late last night when Chinese officials announced that “no strong earthquake will occur in the near future” in the Peking area. The statement went on to suggest that the state of alert would continue in the city of Tangshan‐ and in Fengnan county, where the epicenter of the July 28 quake was l'ocated[sic – meaning located].
“According to the report from the state's seismological bureau,” the statement said, “after the earthquake in the Tangshan‐Fengnan area, the general tendency is that aftershock activities are diminishing, but there will be ups and down in the process and there may be fairly strong aftershocks.”
- 2016 November 14, David Stanway, “China's Tangshan to build new $5.5 billion steel project, cut capacity: Xinhua”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 15 November 2016, Commodities News[5]:
- The city, one of China's most polluted, will consolidate 10 local steel firms and invest 38 billion yuan ($5.54 billion) to build the new Tangshan Bohai Steel Project, Xinhua reported. The project will be sited 40 kilometers from the city's old steel district of Fengnan.