The annual losses of topsoil are now over 10,000 tons per km² in Yulin and Yan’an prefectures in Shaanxi and in Lüliang and Xinxian prefectures in Shanxi, and they average 4,000-5,000 tons per km² a year throughout most of the region, whose most eroded parts are now just a lifeless maze of deeply cut narrow and steep-sided gullies (Figure 8).
2004, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:
As stated above, Lüliang prefecture in Shanxi province is the region where the first wasteland auctions were organized in the early 1980s
2010, Kolya Abramsky, editor, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World[3], AK Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 411–412:
Ten counties around Lüliang in Shanxi have been designated national-level or county-level poverty-stricken counties. In all of them, coal accounts for 70-75 percent of government revenues.¹⁹ According to SAWS statistics, between 2003 and 2006 there were 15 mine accidents, which killed 155 people, in Lüliang.
Nestled in the mountains of the dusty Loess Plateau, Lüliang is best known for having served as a base for the Red Army during World War II. Its valleys are lined with roads blackened by coal that shakes free of the trucks that roll day and night from the mountains to coking plants and steel works. Every few dozen miles, the mountains open up and small urban areas appear. One is Zhongyang, where Mr. Zhang once held court. A short, bullish man who had worked in local government for 39 years, Mr. Zhang controlled the permits that businesses needed to run mines or factories. He rose through the ranks to become deputy chief of the Lüliang region. As the corruption investigation widened, he resigned in March and has been in detention since.
2016, Fang Wang, “Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature”, in Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context[6], volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133:
Geomorphologic Features The Lüliang region is located in the western Shanxi Province. Geologist Professor Liu Dongsheng first identified the section drawing of the Lishi Loess in Wangjiagou, Lishi District, LüliangCity.
2018 March 28, Zhao Yusha, “Former deputy mayor of North China city sentenced to immediate death”, in Global Times[7], archived from the original on March 28, 2018:
Zhang Zhongsheng, ex-deputy mayor of Lüliang, was sentenced to death for accepting bribes and seeking illegal benefits for others with a severe impact on the local economy, according to the Intermediate People's Court in the nearby city of Linfen, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Western Shanxi Plateau— this is mainly composed of the NNE-trending Lüliang Mountains, with a length of about 400 km and its highest peak is at 2831 m.
My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.
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[11], 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.
