Yangquan

[ yahng-chwahn ]

noun

, Pinyin.

1. a city in E Shanxi province, in NE China.

Example Sentences

In Yangquan, a city in northern China, officials said they would build a mass testing system despite the city’s “severe financial restraints.”

From New York Times

Ironically, New York, the state Schumer represents, has several municipalities listed on Wikipedia as partnering with sister cities in China: New York City with Beijing, Mount Vernon with Yangquan, Brooklyn with Yiwu, Port Chester with Jingzhou and Rochester with Xianyang.

From Salon

“With delayed retirement, it’s hard to imagine what we’ll have to face by the time that we are grandparents,” said Ms. Lu, who lives in the city of Yangquan, southwest of Beijing.

From New York Times

His father lost his job—having a brother who had fought against the revolution made him politically suspect—and was sent to work in the coal mines of Yangquan, in Shanxi Province, where Liu still lives.

From The New Yorker

The province also said will strictly ban the addition of new factories in the steel, coke, metal casting, cement and glass sectors in eight cities which have been identified by Beijing as a “key battlefield” of the nationwide war on pollution - Taiyuan, Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Jinzhong, Linfen, Yuncheng and Luliang.

From Reuters