Jiaokou

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 交口 (Jiāokǒu).

Proper noun

Jiaokou

  1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
    • 2009, Yulin Zhang, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives‎, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:
      An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.
    • 2011, Minerals Yearbook‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10.4:
      The company planned to export the bauxite to its alumina refinery in Jiaokou, Shanxi Province, China (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2011g).
    • 2012, Tim Wright, “The rural coal mines and their owners: social costs and benefits”, in The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal‎, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
      In the 2000s, in Jiaokou County (Shanxi) a local mine owner provided the village with a new primary school building, and paid the salaries of local teachers and indeed of the village cadres (Nandu zhoukan 2009c).
    • 2015, “Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2015”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China‎, →ISBN, page 216:
      In April 2015, authorities in Huilong village, Jiaokou county, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, detained more than 10 people who had joined a multi-day protest of several hundred people demonstrating against pollution linked to an aluminum plant.
    • 2019 May 16, Andy Home, “Chinese outages a reminder of aluminum's dirty secret: Andy Home”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on May 16, 2019‎:
      Red mud is also what prompted the Chinese authorities to order the closure of Xinfa Group’s Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi.

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