Citations:North China Plain

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English citations of North China Plain

  • 1948 June 12, Lewis Clark, “The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Butterworth)”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1948[1], volume VII, Nanking: Government Printing Office, published 1973, →OCLC, page 296:
    It is probable that, as the campaign progresses, the Manchurian Communists will be able to secure a foothold on the North China Plain.
  • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic[2], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:
    The predominantly calcareous alluvium of the North China plain and the summer rainfall have made the region one of the most important agricultural areas of China.
  • 1987, Amy Shui, Stuart Thompson, “China and its people”, in Chinese Food and Drink[3], Wayland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
    The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.
  • 2022 April 20, Echo Xie, “Dead heat by 2050: massive North China area to be hotspot for killer mix of heatwaves and surface ozone, study finds”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 April 2022, Science‎[5]:
    The North China Plain, extending across 14 million hectares (35 million acres), was a hotspot for extreme heat and ozone pollution in China, wrote the Chinese and US researchers behind the study.