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Zhaoyang County
Zhaoyang District () is the only district and the seat of the city of Zhaotong, in the northeast of Yunnan Province, China. It borders the provinces of Guizhou to the southeast and Sichuan to the west. Administrative divisions Zhaoyang County has 3 subdistricts, 10 towns, 3 townships and 4 ethnic townships. ;3 subdistricts * Fenghuang ''Fènghuáng'' (, ) are mythological birds found in Sinospheric mythology that reign over all other birds. The males were originally called ''fèng'' and the females ''huáng'', but such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and ... () * Longquan () * Miaoba () ;10 towns ;3 townships * Sujia () * Dazhaizi () * Tianba () ;4 ethnic townships References External linksZhaoyang District Official Website County-level divisions of Zhaotong Districts of China {{Yunnan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District (PRC)
The term ''district'', in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. In the modern context, district (), formally city-governed district, city-controlled district, or municipal district (), are subdivisions of a Municipality of China, municipality or a prefecture-level city. The rank of a district derives from the rank of its city. Districts of a municipality are Prefecture (China), prefecture-level; districts of a sub-provincial city are sub-prefecture-level; and districts of a prefecture-level city are Counties of China, county-level. The term was also formerly used to refer to obsolete District (China)#County-controlled districts (obsolete), county-controlled districts (also known as district public office). However, if the word ''district'' is encountered in the context of ancient History of China, Chinese history, then it is a translation for ''History of the administrative divisions of China, xian'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shouwang Hui, Yunnan
The Shouwang Church (守望教会) is a Protestant house church in Beijing, China, and almost the biggest of about 3,000 of such congregations in the city. The word ''shouwang'' means "to keep watch" in Mandarin. History and membership The church was founded in 1993 by Jin Tianming, a chemical engineering graduate of Tsinghua University of Korean ethnicity.''Dui Hua'', issue 46, Winter 2012: Uncovering China’s Korean Christians''. Since then, the number of its members has increased from 10 to 1,000 as of June 2011. The services are conducted at members' homes or in rented conference rooms; its other activities include 40 biblical reading groups, choir practice and catechism. Shouwang members typically belong to the middle and upper classes, and include professors, doctors, lawyers, students and Party members. Persecution Like other house churches, the Shouwang Church is subject to harassment by the Chinese authorities, who disapprove of religious groups that are not subject t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buga Hui, Yunnan
Buga may refer to: Places * Mount Buga, an inactive volcano in Zamboanga del Sur province, the Philippines * Buga (barangay), a barangay in San Miguel Municipality, Bulacan, Philippines * Buga, Valle del Cauca, city and municipality in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca * Bugalagrande, city and municipality in the Valle del Cauca Department, also spelled as a conjoined name of Buga-La-Grande (Buga the Great) Other uses * Buga (god), Evenk god of the heaven * Buga (surname) * Buhay, musical instrument * Hungarian Buga Pigeon * BUGA, the biannual Federal horticulture show in Germany * Buga-khwe or Buga-kxoe, a dialect of Khwe language Khwe (also rendered ''Kxoe, Khoe'' ) is a dialect continuum of the Khoe family of Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and parts of Zambia, with some 8,000 speakers. Classification Khwe is a member of the Khoe language family. The 20 ... See also * * Buğa (other) {{disambig, geo, surname es:Buga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |