X-Nico

unusual facts about Yi County, Liaoning


Jinzhouornis

yixianensis (Latin for "from Yixian") refers to the formation where it was found and which in turn was named for Yixian County.


1988 Philippine Amateur Basketball League season

The Swift-PABL selection, won the 3rd Asian Interclub basketball tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia, among the teams who participated in the one-week tourney from April 9–18 were Samsung Electronics of Korea, Pandan Jaya of Malaysia, Asaba Club of Indonesia, Liaoning of China, Armed Forces of Singapore, and Orthodox of Jordan.

Aurornis

On 7th June 2013, however, Science Magazine published an article which noted that Pascal Godefroit, the paleontologist who led the team that described Aurornis, reported that he is uncertain if the fossil material came from Liaoning province’'s 160-million-year-old Tiaojishan Formation, as the information provided by the fossil dealer indicated, or from the province’'s 125-million-year-old Yixian Formation, which is known to have produced several ancient bird fossils.

Battle of Nanshan

It took place on 25 May 1904 across a two-mile wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liáodōng Peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on the 116-meter high Nanshan Hill, the present-day Jinzhou District, north of the city center of Dalian, Liaoning, China.

Benxi Shuidong National Park

The Benxi Water Caves are located 30 km east of Benxi, Liaoning province, China.

Chen Zhenggao

On December 22, 2007, the standing committee of Liaoning people's congress accepted the request of resignation of Zhang Wenyue as the governor of Liaoning, and appointed Chen Zhenggao as the vice governor.

Chengda

Liaoning Chengda, the state-owned company in Dalian, Liaoning, China

China Development Bank

Graduated with a Major in Infrastructure Financing from Liaoning Institute of Finance and Economics (now Dongbei University of Finance and Economics).

China Health and Nutrition Survey

The study population is drawn from the nine provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, and Shandong.

China Northern Airlines

China Northern Airlines (simplified Chinese: 中国北方航空; pinyin: Zhōngguó Běifāng Hángkōng), was an airline headquartered on the grounds of Dongta Airport, Dadong District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China.

Cui Guanghao

Cui Guanghao (Chinese:崔光浩 born April 22, 1979 in Huludao, Liaoning) is a Chinese football player of Korean descent who spent the majority of his career playing for Nanjing Yoyo.

Duan Zhigui

Born in Hefei, Anhui, Duan gained the post of Heilongjiang governor in the late Qing dynasty and between 1912-13 he was governor of Chahar, and the military governor of Hubei between 1914–15, as well as Military and Civil governor of Fengtian in 1915-16.

Emperor Gaozong of Tang

Emperor Gaozong order withdrawal of Tang forces from the Korean Peninsula entirely and moved the Protectorate General to Pacify the East to Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) and the commandant of Xiongjin (熊津), who governed the former Baekje territory at Sabi, to Geonan (建安, in modern Yingkou, Liaoning), allowing Silla eventually expelled Tang out of the Korean Peninsula and unified the parts of the peninsula south of the Taedong River.

Fibuloides aestuosa

It is known from China (Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Liaoning, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Korea, Japan, northern India and Bengal.

Gada Meiren

The authorities of Liao-ning Province, then controlled by Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin, were about to launch cultivation projects, dividing the banner's last land into two areas, Hsi-chia-huang and Liao-pei-huang.

Gao Jiong

In 598, angry that Ying Province (營州, roughly modern Zhaoyang, Liaoning) had been attacked by Goguryeo, Emperor Wen send his son Yang Liang and the general Wang Shiji (王世積) to attack Goguryeo—a campaign that Gao tried to dissuade Emperor Wen from but Emperor Wen launched anyway, and in fact forced Gao to serve as Yang Liang's deputy.

Gentiana triflora

Gentiana triflora (三花龙胆 san hua long dan in Chinese, called Clustered Gentian in English) is a tall, flowering perennial plant in the genus Gentiana native to higher-elevation (600-1000 m) meadows and forests of China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol), Mongolia, Eastern Russia, Korea and Japan.

Gold mining in China

Production has usually been concentrated in the eastern provinces of Shandong, Henan, Fujian and Liaoning.

History of science and technology in the People's Republic of China

Only the largest mines, oil fields, or factories, such as the Anshan iron and steel complex in Liaoning Province or the Yanshan petrochemical complex in Beijing, had their own research units, dedicated to solving immediate problems in production in the late 1980s.

Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns

into English by Professor Chen Zhaixin, Former Head of Mathematics Department, Yenching University (in 1925),Translated into modern Chinese by Guo Shuchun, Volume I & II, Library of Chinese Classics, Chinese-English, Liaoning Education Press 2006 ISBN 7-5382-6923-1

Jeffrey Zheng Yu Guang

He was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province and went to study computer engineering at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada for 3 years.

Junast

His father and grandfather were farmers, originally from Chaoyang in Liaoning.

Manchurian revival

Goforth proceeded to Guangning (Kwangning) (near Beizhen, Liaoning) where it was told him by another missionary that, "Reports have come to us of the meetings at Mukden and Liaoyang. I thought I had better tell you, right at the beginning, that you need not expect similar results here."

Ningyuan

Xingcheng, former name Ningyuan (宁远市), city in Liaoning, site of the Battle of Ningyuan in 1626

Salix matsudana

pseudomatsudana, found only in the provinces of Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning.

Shenzhou program

# Zhang Xiaoguang – born in Liaoning Province and PLAAF pilot, flew on Shenzhou 10

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

The film is set and was filmed in Shanghai and in Anshan, Liaoning, Northeast China (note: Anshan is the birthplace of director Ann Hui).

Tiziana Scandaletti

Recent activities include tours in Europe, Asia, Australia and America, performing at Gasteig in Munich, Unerhoerte Musik in Berlin, Xinghai Concert Hall in Canton, Liaoning Grand Theatre in Shenyang, Opera Theater in Ulan Bator, 37th International Composers' Symposium of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Artlink Festival in Belgrade and SoundaXis Festival in Toronto.

Transition from Sui to Tang

Emperor Yang personally led part of the army to put the important city Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) under siege, while he sent the generals Yuwen Shu and Yu Zhongwen (于仲文) to lead the rest of the army deep into Goguryeo territory, heading toward the Goguryeo capital Pyongyang, joined by the fleet commanded by the general Lai Hu'er (來護兒).

Upper Xiajiadian culture

A culture found mainly in southeastern Inner Mongolia, northern Hebei and western Liaoning, China the Upper Xiajiadian's range was slightly larger than that of the Lower Xiajiadian reaching areas north of the Xilamulun River.

Wang Lijun incident

From 1992 to 1995, he served as the deputy director of the public security department in Tiefa, Liaoning, and from 1995 to 2000 held the same position in Tieling, also in Liaoning.

Willow Palisade

With an exception of the northernmost segment (north of Kaiyuan), both eastern and western sections of the Inner Palisade ran either outside of the old Liaodong Wall (the defensive wall built by the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century to protect the agricultural heartland of Liaoning from incursions by Mongols and Jianzhou Jurchens), or, in places, reused parts of the old wall.

Winter Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China

In order to completely cut the link between Changchun and Shenyang, the communist decided to take Siping (city) by redeploying the 1st column, the 3rd column and the 7th column on February 29, 1948 from southern Liaoning to Siping (city), while the communist 2nd column, 6th column, 8the column, and the 10th column were already deployed two days ago on February 27, 1948 to Changtu and Kaiyuan to stop any possible nationalist reinforcement to the city.

After southern Liaoning fell into the communist hand, the defender of Faku (法库), the nationalist 62nd division of the Newly Organized 6th Army abandoned the city and attempted to breakout the siege, but was decimated on its way at the mouth of Tong River (通江) to the west of Kaiyuan, which fell into the communist hand on February 29, 1948.

Xinle

Xinle culture (5500-4800 BC), Neolithic culture in northeast China, found primarily around the lower Liao River on the Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning

Yiwulü Mountain

It is located about 5 kilometers west of the center of Beizhen City, in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province.

Yu Chung-han

As the Chief of the Board, and with Governor Tsang Shih-yi, of Liaoning province, made plans for a new State to be established in February 1932.

Yuwen Shu

Emperor Yang's main forces put Goguryeo's key northern city Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) under siege (although he was ultimately unable to capture it), but sent Yuwen with a branch army to head deep south, across the Yalu River, heading directly toward the Goguryeo capital Pyongyang.

Zan Yuen

A DVD was recorded by the Liaoning Opera in 1996 featuring tenor Wei Song.

Zhili–Anhui War

In April 1920, while visiting a memorial service at Baoding for soldiers who died in Hunan, one-time presidential-candidate Cao Kun added more warlords to the anti-Anhui clique alliance, including the rulers of Hubei, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhili.


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