Citations:Qipan

English citations of Qipan

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• 2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China‎^[1] (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201:

  “I have met old people who held my hands and told me tearfully that they preferred to die early,” wrote a township Party secretary, Li Changping, “and I have seen the sad sight of children kneeling before me saying they want to attend school.” In Li’s Qipan, also in Jianli County, society is failing because of the decline of agriculture. Li wrote a direct plea to Zhu Rongji about conditions in his area. That was futile because the well-intentioned Zhu has little power in Qipan and most other places in the countryside.

• 2002 January 27, Josephine Ma, “Champion of the downtrodden has no regrets”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 August 2022‎^[3]:

  In his letter, Mr Li revealed the bleak situation in Qipan township. Almost all the young people in the township had left to find work in cities and 65 per cent of the farmland had been left idle. A family of five paid at least 350 yuan (HK$329) a year for each mu (0.07 of a hectare) of farmland they looked after, and 85 per cent of farmers were losing money.

• 2003, Changping Li, “The Crisis in the Countryside”, in Chaohua Wang, editor, One China, Many Paths‎^[4], Verso, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:

  I come from a peasant family in Hubei, where I was born in Jianli County, by the Honghu Lake in the mid-Yangtze tributary area. […]
  When I was fifteen I got the top score in the entrance examinations for the provincial key-point high school in our township Qipan (‘Chessboard’).

• 2006, Minxin Pei, “China's Mounting Governance Deficits”, in China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy‎^[5], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:

  The costs and effective land rent made grain production unprofitable. Indeed, the example of Qipan township, in Jianli county in Hubei, was representative. According to the township party secretary, farming was unprofitable for 80 percent of the peasants in his jurisdiction in 1999.

• 2015, An Chen, “Village finance: its deterioration and consequences”, in The Transformation of Governance in Rural China‎^[6], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:

  In Shandong, 72 percent of the 249 surveyed villages were in debt in 2002 (Ji, Zhao, and Yuan 2003). In Qipan township (Jianli, Hubei), none of the villages was debt-free (Li Changping 2002: 73).

• 2020 February 12, Zhou Xin, He Huifeng, Sidney Leng, “Coronavirus: China’s small firms at risk while outbreak poses challenge to Beijing’s grand economic goals”, in South China Morning Post‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 February 2020, China Economy‎^[8]:

  Even 200km away from the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Chinese crab farmer Peng Guobing is feeling anxious about his business.
  With the Lunar New Year holiday finished, his crab ponds should be empty, the small crustaceans shipped to buyers in Hubei’s provincial capital Wuhan or other major consumer markets across the country. […]
  “Crabs start mating in the spring season and they die quickly,” said Peng from his home in Qipan. “It’s uncertain now whether the baby crabs can arrive in time.”

• 2020 October 8, Xiaolu Zhou, “Religious Venues Lacking State-Issued Permits Face Demolition”, in Bitter Winter‎^[9], archived from the original on 30 October 2020‎^[10]:

  In August, the Buddhist Tianshou Temple in Jianli-administered Qipan township was converted into an elderly activity center because it didn’t have the registration certificate. The building was covered with Party propaganda slogans, such as “Don’t forget the original intention; keep the mission in mind,” “New thoughts, new goals, new eras, new journeys,” and alike.