hungan

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Hong'an.

   “In this connection, the name of Hungan, a small county in Hupeh Province, has become almost a household word.[…] FARM yields in Hungan County shot up spectacularly in 1957. Its average grain yield per mou rose to 834 catties— 116 per cent over its 1952 average and 18 per cent more than in 1956.[…] In 1956, Hungan's first year of co-operative farming, 90 per cent of its 732 co-ops increased their yields.”

   “Comrade Li Hsien-nien said: Comrade Cheng Wei-san, born in Hungan County, Hupeh Province, dedicated himself to the Chinese people's great cause of revolution since his early days.”

   “He discovered that there was no direct postal and telegraphic communication between Hungan County of Hubei Province and the neighboring Xin County of Henan Province, that letters mailed from Hungan County to Xin County had to take a detour by way of Wuhan and then via Xiangcheng to reach Xin County, and that this was also true for the dispatch of telegrams.”