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Shaoyang

American  
[shou-yahng] / ˈʃaʊˈyɑŋ /

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
  1. a city in central Hunan province, in eastern China.


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“We recommend that everyone not return to their hometowns unless necessary during the peak of the outbreak,” the government of Shaoyang county in Hunan province in central China said in a notice dated Thursday.

From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Local regulators in Shaoyang, a city in south central Hunan province, ordered a sales halt for two Evergrande residential projects, citing misappropriation of funds, according to government notices published late on Monday.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2021

Eventually, I found a Yahoo chat group for parents who had adopted from the Shaoyang Social Welfare Institute, the orphanage where I was certain the twin had been taken.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2019

The official Xinhua news agency said the patient was a 64-year-old woman from Shaoyang city who developed a fever on April 14, four days after having contact with poultry.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2013

I asked how he had gone from not wanting to be a teacher in Shaoyang to being a teacher in Shanghai.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2012

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