1939 February 4, C. Y. W. [孟長泳] Meng, “China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously”, in The China Weekly Review[1], volume 87, number 10, →OCLC, pages 298–299:
Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.
In Shao-yang County in Hunan, for instance, the community chest dates back to 1639, when officials converted surplus public grain into land from which funds were drawn triennially to subsidize sheng-yüan’s participation in provincial examinations.]
[1963 March 13 [1963 January 15], “Depending on the Masses for Improvement of Short-Distance Transportation”, in Translations on Communist China's Trade, Finance, Transportation and Communications, number 39, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Ta Kung Pao, page 2, translation of original by Ku Chien-peng (7357 1696 7720) [顧建鵬] and Li Huan-chao (2621 3562 6389) [李煥超] (in Chinese), →OCLC, Transportation, page 20:
Shao-yang County of Hunan achieved last year an unusual result of exceeding every one of its monthly quotas in short-distance transportation.[…] Shao-yang County is situated at the upper reaches of the Tzu River.]
The time is now, the place the grim industrial city of Shaoyang, China, which has just been informed that its No. 2 Space Rocket Factory is going to shut down.
Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.
Shaoyang, in the southwest of central China's Hunan province, is an almost forgotten city despite past glories in a history spanning more than 25 centuries, dating back to the Spring and Autumn period.
2020 April 23, “Newly unveiled customs in central China supports foreign trade”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[9], archived from the original on 26 November 2022[10]:
A customs agency was established in the city of Shaoyang, central China's Hunan Province, on Thursday to promote the city's foreign trade, according to local authorities.
2021 June 9, “Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives”, in AP News[11], archived from the original on 25 August 2022[12]:
The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
