Laocheng

See also: lǎochéng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 老城 (lǎochéng).

Proper noun

Laocheng

1. A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
   • 2010, Serenade Woo, edited by Deborah Muir and Anna Noonan, China Clings to Control: Press Freedom in 2009‎^[1], International Federation of Journalists, →OCLC, page 15:

     On October 20, Zhang Jinxing, a journalist for Cheng Du Shang Bao newspaper, was reportedly assaulted and detained for eight hours by police from Laocheng District, Luoyang, Henan Province, while reporting on a traffic accident.

   • 2014 March 28, “Luoyang residents sue gov't over land requisition”, in China Internet Information Center‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 May 2022:

     A court in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, began hearing a case where 266 households in the city sued their local government over land requisition and violation of regulations on protection of the old town.
     The 266 families claimed that the Laocheng (old town) district government began a policy of requisition of land in the ancient town on August 8 last year, ordering the seizure of more than 1,000 mu (66.7 hectares) in a move that contradicts the city's 2011-2020 overall plan and the country's regulation on ancient town protection.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Laocheng.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老城 (zh) (Lǎochéng)

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