Jili

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉利 (Jílì).

Jili

1. (historical) A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
   • 1994, Ting Gong, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes‎, Praeger, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

     These businesses, usually small and weak, were often forced by corrupt officials to engage in bribery in order to stay in business. For example, as revealed by the People's Daily (June 22, 1988), Gao Yuncong, secretary of Jili District Party Committee of Luoyang City, Hunan, forced the Jili Chemical Factory to buy houses, cars, and color TV sets for him.

   • 1996, John Gittings, “Peasants in Revolt”, in Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke‎, Pocket Books, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:

     In the freer political atmosphere before the 1989 repression, peasant protests against the Party in Henan were sometimes openly discussed. A transcript of a meeting between peasants and cadres in Jili district near Luoyang published in the Peasants’ Daily recorded some vivid complaints.

   • 2009 December 24, “China deals with 88 law-breaking cases involving 4t stimulus package”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 02 January 2010‎:

     — Officials of Jili District in the city of Luoyang, Henan province, were given warnings for approving a substandard sewage treatment plant project.

   • 2019, L. Yang et al., “The Regionalization of Eco-Geological Environment System”, in Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society‎, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 199:

     (7) Wetland eco-geological environment system: This system is mainly distributed along two banks of the Yellow River in Jili District, Luoyang, with an area is 15.72 km², 0.1% of the total area.

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