Citations:Lanzhou

English citations of Lanzhou

• 1979, Donald H. McMillen, “Military Policies,1949-66”, in Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977‎^[1], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

  Top priority was placed on military preparedness, troop strength was continuously built up, the settlement of Han from China Proper was intensified, a new highway and railroad network was completed within Xinjiang and between Urumqi and Lanzhou by 1961, and emphasis was placed on economic development and modernization.

• [2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:

  On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.

  (Note: Lanjhou is the Tongyong Pinyin-derived name for Lanzhou.)]

• 2008, William Lindesay, The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:

  Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.

• [2018 September 9, Joy Mitra, “Theater Commands in India: A Force Structure Ripe for Transition?”, in The Diplomat‎^[4], archived from the original on September 10, 2018, Asia Defense:

  China moved to a theater command structure in 2016, junking the old regional command structure by combining Chengdu and Lanjhou Military region into its Western Theater Command which is responsible for all air and land assets concerning India.]

• 2021 October 21, Ryan Woo Woo, Roxanne Liu, Liangping Gao, “Parts of northern China brace for more COVID-19 lockdowns and curbs”, in Christian Schmollinger, Gerry Doyle, editors, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 October 2021, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals‎^[6]:

  In northwestern Gansu province, where nine local confirmed cases have been reported in the past week, primary and high schools in the provincial capital of Lanzhou, as well as in one county in Jiuquan city, have suspended offline classes.