Zhongyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中原 (Zhōngyuán).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔŋ.juˌɑn/, enPR: jo͝ongʹyüǎnʹ

Zhongyuan

1. A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • 2012, Zhenbao Jin, “From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker—On the Role of the Supreme People's Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China”, in Lei Chen, C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, editors, Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives‎, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

     As early as 2002, the People's Court of Zhongyuan District in Zhengzhou, He'nan^{[sic – meaning Henan]} Province, a court at the basic level, issued Several Provisions on the Application of the Precedent Decisions Mechanism (Guanyu Shixing Xianli Panjue Zhidu de Ruogan Guiding), under which the adjudication committee of the court selected and issued precedent decisions.

   • 2022 October 27, Chang Che, Amy Chang Chien, “China’s Latest Covid Lockdown Affects a Major iPhone Factory”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-27, The Coronavirus Pandemic‎:

     The lockdown in Zhengzhou began early last week when people in more than a dozen neighborhoods in the central Zhongyuan district, west of the Foxconn factory, were told to stay at home, according to an official notice.

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