Liaoyuan

Liaoyuan
/lyow"ywahn"/, n. Pinyin.
a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China. 250,000.
Also, Wade-Giles, Liaoyüan.

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China

      city, southwestern Jilin (Kirin) sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated on the north bank of the upper Dongliao River, about 60 miles (100 km) south-southwest of Changchun.

      Standing on the border between the plains and the hills, Liaoyuan was originally a Manchu hunting preserve, which was first opened to legal colonization by Chinese farmers in the late 19th century. It then became a rural market and collecting centre for soybeans, grain, and other agricultural products. In 1911 coal was discovered in the area, and Liaoyuan, which at the time was named Xi'an, became the centre of a major coalfield, with pits located at such neighbouring centres as Pinggang. The field has enormous reserves of good-quality coal, mostly bituminous. The mines, badly damaged at the end of World War II, were extensively reequipped in the early 1950s with Soviet aid. In 1948 Xi'an was divided into Xi'an city and Xi'an county; the former was renamed Liaoyuan city in 1952, and the latter was renamed Dongliao county in 1956. Both were placed under the administration of Jilin province in 1954.

      By 1960 Liaoyuan had become the chief coal-producing district in Jilin province. Besides providing fuel for industrial use in the province, Liaoyuan has a large thermal-power-generating plant, which is connected with the power grid linking the major industrial centres of Northeast China. The city's other industries include engineering shops, chemical and fertilizer plants, paper mills, and factories for cotton weaving, silk reeling, and oil pressing. It is connected by rail via Siping to Changchun and to Tonghua. Pop. (2002 est.) 388,364.

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