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North China Plain en · PROPN

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1. A large alluvial plain of northern China, bordered to the north by the Yanshan Mountains, to the west by the Taihang Mountains and Funiu Mountains, to the southwest by the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains, and to the east by the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and merging with the Jianghuai Plains to the south.
   • It is probable that, as the campaign progresses, the Manchurian Communists will be able to secure a foothold on the North China Plain. 1948 June 12, Lewis Clark, “The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Butterworth)”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1948, volume VII, Nanking: Government Printing Office, published 1973, →OCLC, page 296:
   • The North China Plain undoubtedly needs any water it can get. An economic powerhouse with more than 200 million people, it has limited rainfall and depends on groundwater for 60 percent of its supply. Other countries, like Yemen, India, Mexico and the United States, have aquifers that are being drained to dangerously low levels. But scientists say those below the North China Plain may be drained within 30 years. 2007 September 28, Jim Yardley, “Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2008, Asia Pacific:
   • The predominantly calcareous alluvium of the North China plain and the summer rainfall have made the region one of the most important agricultural areas of China. 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99:
   • The North China Plain, extending across 14 million hectares (35 million acres), was a hotspot for extreme heat and ozone pollution in China, wrote the Chinese and US researchers behind the study. 2022 April 20, Echo Xie, “Dead heat by 2050: massive North China area to be hotspot for killer mix of heatwaves and surface ozone, study finds”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2022:

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Translations (8)

de Nordchinesische Ebene (plain located in northern China) · cmn 華北平原 /华北平原 (plain located in northern China) · fr grande plaine de Chine du Nord (plain located in northern China) · ru Великая Китайская равнина (plain located in northern China) · ko 화베이 평원 (plain located in northern China) · yue 華北平原 /华北平原 (plain located in northern China) · vi bình nguyên Hoa Bắc (plain located in northern China) · ca Gran Planúria del Nord de la Xina (plain located in northern China)