Yanling

See also: Yānlíng

English

Alternative forms

• Yenling
• Yen-ling (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄢陵 (Yānlíng).

Proper noun

Yanling

1. A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.
   • [1978 February 22 [1978 February 18], “Honan CCP Committee Dismisses County First Secretary”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 36, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page H 1‎^[1]:

     As suggested by the Yenling County party committee and approved by the Honan party committee, the Hsuchang prefectural party committee decided to adopt disciplinary measures against (Peng Fang-hsin) and others. It also decided to expell (Chen Wen-chin) from the party and dismiss him from the post as deputy chief of the Yenling County Culture and Education Bureau.]

   • 2014 December 22, Pinghui Zhuang, “Chinese men fined for catching almost 1,700 protected wild geckos in one night”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 December 2014:

     Six men in Yanling county, Henan province, who together caught almost 1,700 wild geckos, have each been fined 2,000 yuan (HK$2,500) for illegal hunting, Dahe Daily reports.

   • 2018 September 5, Yang Fan, Luisetta Mudie, “Protestant Churches in China's Henan Hit by Dawn Police Raids”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on 5 September 2018:

     Christian worshipers pray during a Christmas service at a village church in Yanling county, Xuchang city, central China's Henan province, in a file photo.

   • 2018 October 5, “Flower and plant industry boosts rural economy in China's Henan”, in Liangyu, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[4], archived from the original on 5 September 2018:

     A boy view^{[sic – meaning views]} flowers at a flower expo park in Yanling County of Xuchang, central China's Henan Province, Oct. 3, 2018. To boost the rural economy, local authorities have promoted the industry of flowers and plants. The county's output value of flower and plant industry reached 7.1 billion yuan (1.03 billion U.S. dollars) in 2017.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yanling.

Translations

prefecture-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄢陵 (zh) (Yānlíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3515, column 2