yanggao

name

1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.

   “(Chao Chin-chai), deputy secretary of the Yangkao County CCP Committee, in his speech said that although in the past few years, Yangkao County had made some progress in learning from Tachai, it was not outstanding. There had been no great change in the features of Yangkao County because the county CCP committee had not worked hard on revolutionization.”

   “At the time of writing this introduction, he had just concluded a trip to Shanxi where he studied an anthropological site at Xujiayao, Yangkao County.”

   “During a conversation in the hotel where they were staying, Wei Qi related that at a village named Xujiayao (Hsu Chia Yao) in Yanggao County, Shanxi Province, the villagers had dug up thousands of kilogrammes of dragon bones and had delivered them to the local trading co-op for sale.”

   “Like Baopingbao, Zhenbianbao is also a fortressed village, but its reserves of water have helped it to survive intact. About 1,000 people still live within its thick 20-meter-high yellow mud walls. Yu You is among the oldest residents; she's 82. She came to the village when she was 17. Like Tian she is from Inner Mongolia and married a farmer named Han living in Zhenbianbao, in Yanggao County, a two-hour drive on mostly dirt roads from Baopingbao.”