Shaoyang

[ shou-yahng ]

noun

, Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

1. a city in central Hunan province, in eastern China.

Example Sentences

“We recommend that everyone not return to their hometowns unless necessary during the peak of the outbreak,” the government of Shaoyang county in Hunan province in central China said in a notice dated Thursday.

From Washington Times

Local regulators in Shaoyang, a city in south central Hunan province, ordered a sales halt for two Evergrande residential projects, citing misappropriation of funds, according to government notices published late on Monday.

From Reuters

This month, the government of Shaoyang, a city in Zhejiang Province, asked local officials to identify more people who could qualify as “emergency users.”

From New York Times

Eventually, I found a Yahoo chat group for parents who had adopted from the Shaoyang Social Welfare Institute, the orphanage where I was certain the twin had been taken.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Liu cited three recent examples of rights advocates incarcerated under the system: Xian Yaojun, in the southern province of Guangdong; He Yurong, in Shaoyang in the central province of Hunan; and Xue Jinying in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.

From New York Times