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Heze

See also: hēzé

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 菏澤 / 菏泽 (Hézé).

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Heze

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
    • [1959 August, “Nien Movement and National Minority Risings”, in Tung Chi-ming [董集明], editor, An Outline History of China [簡明中国历史] (China Knowledge Series)‎[1], Second edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 233-234:
      The army under Prince Sengalintsin, a famous Manchu general, was surrounded at Hotse in southwestern Shantung, and its supplies were cut off.]
    • 1983 November 8, “QUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page A6‎[3]:
      The official New China News Agency said that five hours after the quake 30 people in Heze and Dongming Counties in Shandong had been reported dead. Several thousand houses in Heze County were destroyed, the agency said.
      Authorities in Heze County, on the border between Anhui and Shandong Provinces, said that casualty reports were sketchy but that one death and up to 100 injuries had been recorded in their area.
      The quake jolted most residents from their beds. Nearly everyone was asleep, said Li Jimin, a government official in Heze, 400 miles south of Peking.
    • [1999, Suzanne Pepper, Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949‎[4], Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:
      First, Communist rule had already proved unhealthy for certain kinds of businessmen in the liberated areas due to the ban on trade in many types of non-essential consumer items. We have already noted the resentment this caused among merchants in and around the town of Hotse, Shantung, even though the Communists were trying to be “especially polite” to the business community there.]
    • 2004 July 18, “Flooding swamps many provinces, and more to come”, in South China Morning Post‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2023‎[6]:
      At the same time, heavy rain in Shandong province's Heze county meant chaos for railway timetables, including the Beijing-Kowloon line.
    • 2022 February 18, Shuyan Wang, Liangping Gao, Jason Xue, Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities ease home purchase down-payments to reignite demand”, in Richard Pullin, Kenneth Maxwell, editors, Reuters‎[7], archived from the original on 18 February 2022‎[8]:
      The eastern city of Heze is allowing some home buyers to pay lower down-payments for their purchases, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said late on Thursday, among the first cities easing the borrowing rule. […]
      The housing regulator of Heze, a city of 8.79 million in Shandong province, has not officially announced the move.

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