shangqiu

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1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

   “During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the number of middle school students in Shangchiu Prefecture was ten times that before the Cultural Revolution, in addition to universal primary school education.”

   “Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.”

   “Officials in the city of Shangqiu in Henan Province have admitted that police officers tortured a man to get him to falsely confess to a murder that he did not commit, official Chinese news organizations reported Wednesday.”