Linfen
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- A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
- 1938, Anna Louise Strong, One-Fifth of Mankind[1], New York: Modern Age Books, →OCLC, page 121:
- Headquarters of the Second War Zone was at that time at Linfen, a sizable city on the railway in the southern half of Shansi, jammed now with soldiers, officials and refugees from the North.
- 2018 February 10, Steven Lee Myers, “In China’s Coal Country, a Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 10, 2018, Asia Pacific[3]:
- The village is on the outskirts of Linfen, an industrial city of 4.4 million which was once ranked among the world’s most heavily polluted cities, a consequence of the unregulated boom of steel and other industries locating factories close to their fuel source. Like much of northeastern China, even this region has enjoyed an unusual respite from the smog.
- 2019 April 15, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China coal hub Linfen to extend anti-pollution curbs to third quarter: draft plan”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 15 April 2019, Sustainable Business:
- China coal hub Linfen in central province Shanxi, one of the most polluted cities in the nation, plans to extend its winter restrictions on heavy industries to the end of the third quarter this year as it strives to meet air quality targets.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Linfen.
Translations
editprefecture-level city
Further reading
edit- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Linfen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1058, column 3