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	Wanxian - Encyclopedia.com
		Children play in the mud of the Yangtze before the valley and the city of Wanxian is flooded at the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project.
		A family rest in the ruins of their home in the old city of Wanxian, about to be flooded in the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project.
		The old city of Wanxian on the banks of the Yangtze, about to be flooded in the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Wanxian.html (489 words)

	Wanzhou District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The urban area of Wanzhou, located in the northern part of the district and on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River, is 228 km away from downtown Chongqing.
		On December 12, 1992, the State Council abolished Wanxian Prefecture and its subordinate Wanxian City and created the prefecture-level Wanxian City, which administered the districts of Longbao, Tiancheng, Wuqiao (龙宝区、天城区、五桥区) and the counties of Kai, Zhong, Liangping, Yunyang, Fengjie, Wushan, Wuxi, and Kaikou (开县、忠县、梁平县、云阳县、奉节县、巫山县、巫溪县、城口县).
		Wanxian City's three districts were converted to administrative committees (管理委员会, abbreviated 管委会) of Wanxian District.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wanxian (472 words)

	CNN - Dam project - Dec. 9, 1995
		WANXIAN, China (CNN) -- Along the banks of the Yangtze River, more than a million people are being asked to sacrifice their homes to make way for progress.
		In Wanxian, a city northeast of Chongqing, the Yangtze has been an integral part of life for people who have dwelled on its banks for hundreds of years.
		As if the impending disappearance of much of Wanxian was not already on the minds of its residents, all over the city there are numerical reminders.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9512/china_dam_project (623 words)

	Yangtze Scenic Spot - Wanxian
		Wanxian has a number of silk-weaving and spinning factories supported by intense silkworm cultivation--operated on a family basis--which continues year round in Wanxian County.
		As the halfway city between Yichang and Chongqing, Wanxian was a main port for East Sichuan merchandise (including large quantities of hung oil, used in treating wooden junks).
		The downriver boats from Chongqing usually reach Wanxian in the early evening, and depart in the small hours of the following morning although timings will change as the river rises.
	www.yangtzecruise.cn /Wanxian.htm (588 words)

	CNN - Dam project - Dec. 9, 1995
		WANXIAN, China (CNN) -- Along the banks of the Yangtze River, more than a million people are being asked to sacrifice their homes to make way for progress.
		In Wanxian, a city northeast of Chongqing, the Yangtze has been an integral part of life for people who have dwelled on its banks for hundreds of years.
		As if the impending disappearance of much of Wanxian was not already on the minds of its residents, all over the city there are numerical reminders.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9512/china_dam_project (623 words)

	Untitled Document
		With 2,000 year history, Wanxian was once an important city in formal Sichuan Province, like Chengdu and Chongqing.
		The downriver boats from Chongqing usually reach Wanxian in the early evening, and depart in the small hours of the following morning.
		The free market is very busy in Wanxian, Silk spinning and weaving industry are well known in the Yangtze Gorges region..
	www.china-cruise.com /Yangtze/Attractions/Wanxian.htm (302 words)

	Chongqing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For three years, Chongqing had been a sub-provincial city of Sichuan Province, until March 14, 1997, as decided in the Eighth National People's Congress, the original Chongqing City was merged with the neighbouring Fuling, Wanxian, and Qianjiang that had been governed by Chongqing City on behalf of the province since September of the previous year.
		These four prefecture-level entities were all abolished as distinct administrative divisions and formed one new Chongqing Municipality that contained 30,020,000 people in their 43 former counties (without intermediate political levels), to spearhead China's effort to develop its western regions as well as to coordinate the resettlement of refugees from the Three Gorges Dam project.
		The origin column indicates which city the entity belonged to prior to the 1997 conglomeration of Chongqing with Fuling, Wanxian (now Wanzhou), and Qianjiang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chongqing (1115 words)

	Wanxian, a city soon to be flooded
		Wanxian is a city of millions that you've probably never heard of.
		The purpose of our visit was to get a firsthand view of a city soon to be flooded by the rising dam waters of the Yangtze and the efforts the Chinese are expending to resettle the population to higher ground.
		It was now time to return to the bus and set sail on the Princess Elaine for Chongqing, 375 miles upriver from Wanxian.
	www.anniebees.com /China/China_38.htm (890 words)

	>>> AsiaNews.it <<< A new Chinese bishop consecrated with Vatican approval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The new auxiliary bishop of Wanxian, Monsignor Paul He Zeqing, age 37, is perhaps the youngest bishop of the official Church.
		The Wanxian (Wanzhou) diocese became famous worldwide in 1998 when Pope John Paul II had invited its two bishops, ordinary Matthias Duan Yinmin (Editor’s note: the last bishop named by Pius XII in 1949, right after Mao’s rise to power) and auxiliary Joseph Xu Zhixuan, to take part in the Synod on Asia.
		Wanxian is famous also for another reason: part of the diocese is about to be submerged by the waters of the Yang Tze (Blue River), to make room for the basin of the great Three Gorges Dam.
	www.asianews.it /view.php?l=en&art=4404 (939 words)

	Catholic World News : China Bishop Issues Appeal For Flood-Risk Churches
		WANXIAN, China, Jan. 22, 01 (CWNews.com/Fides) - A Chinese bishop, following the lead of his former ordinary, has expressed his fidelity to Pope John Paul II (bio - news).
		Bishop Joseph Xu Zhixuan, coadjutor of Wanxian, said, "In our diocese we intend to follow in the footsteps of Bishop Duan Yinming: we belong to the Catholic Church and we want to remain so.
		Over one million people have already had to move to counties upstream, but government compensation funds are nowhere near sufficient for the people to resettle, build new homes, and start working the fields, or for the diocese to replace its churches.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=14718 (503 words)

	Victoria Cruises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wan Zhou (previously known as Wanxian) is a small mountainous city known the gate way to East Sichan.
		Main industries: Today, Wanxian is an important port and industrial center.
		Wanxian tangerines, oranges and peaches are renowned throughout China.
	www.victoriacruises.com /new/wanzhou.html (154 words)

	Sanborns' China Trip The Yangtze River Journey
		This is by no means representative of the cities and villages we saw on our trip through China but when you are to be doomed, there is no point whatsoever in maintaining anything.
		The Wanxian city market is a bustling place that had everything you could want on sale.
		Wanxian is currently at 99 meters above sea level and the water will rise to 175m.
	www.thesanborns.com /china/end%20yangtze%20river.html (408 words)

	The Yangtze River - Overview
		The dam is located in the upper left of the image where the first signs of flooding (red areas) can be seen.
		Wanxian is located in the foreground where the river bends and heads south towards Chongqing.
		It is considered that Chongqing (just past the right edge of the picture) is the furthest point up river that the effects of the dam will be felt.
	www.worldsat.ca /image_gallery/gorges/left3_bg.html (114 words)

	Wanxian
		Children play in the mud of the Yangtze before the valley and the city of Wanxian is flooded at the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project.
		Residents leave the old town of Wanxian with what they can carry before the city is flooded in the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project.
		A family rest in the ruins of their home in the old city of Wanxian, about to be flooded in the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0851437.html (267 words)

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		It is ever clearer in the official Church that episcopal ordinations, being a sacrament, are part of a religious and spiritual element that cannot be subjugated to political power or to the Patriotic Association.
		The new auxiliary bishop of Wanxian, Monsignor Paul He Zeqing, age 37, is perhaps the youngest bishop of the official Church.
		Wanxian is famous also for another reason: part of the diocese is about to be submerged by the waters of the Yang Tze (
	www.persecution.org /suffering/newsdetail.php?newscode=1518 (674 words)

	Great Wall Across the Yangtze, The River Tour
		Wanxian functioned as a critical port for trade and is commonly referred to as the Gateway to East Sichuan.
		Of the cities most affected by resettlement, Wanxian ranks number one with over 800,000 people scheduled to move.
		Forty miles below Wanxian is the town of Yunyang (Clouded Sun).
	www.pbs.org /itvs/greatwall/yangtze1_2.html (508 words)

	Around the World with Wes and Masami - Around the World Travelogue by Wes and Masami Heiser with Journal Photographs ...
		Once in Wanxian, exhausted from 12 consecutive hours on a bus, we hoped for a ferry ticket tout.
		In fact Wanxian was a depressing town without much of anything.
		We would have avoided a miserable bus ride to Wanxian, and the ferry would have docked in Wushan for an optional 6-hour tour through the Little Three Gorges.
	www.atwtravel.net /doc/english/journal/china/yangzi.htm (1847 words)

	China's Unyielding Banking Crisis
		The next year, he became the head of the Wanxian special region office, which supervised branches in an area of nearly 9 million people.
		He regularly tapped bank funds to entertain associates, dining with the Wanxian mayor and party secretary, former colleagues say, and he lent to the local factories they favored.
		On several occasions, colleagues and angry managers at factories who failed to secure credit wrote letters to provincial officials accusing Zhang of taking kickbacks, according to three former colleagues and a source familiar with the corruption probe.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/05/AR2005060500958_pf.html (1545 words)

	Wanxian - photos of canyons & gorges in Chongqing on Worldisround
		This city spreads out on both banks of the river and is known as the Gateway to the Eastern Sichuan.
		Shengli Lu is a famous night market where Wanxian rattan and cane are sold.
		Visitors also have the opportunity to visit the silk and cane factories in Wanxian.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/20805/index.html (302 words)

	Yangtze
		It is known as the "Gateway to the Eastern Sichuan Province".
		Wanxian is famed for its orange and tangerine crops.
		Yichang, a modern city, is situated at the entrance of Xiling Gorge.
	www.chinatoday.com.cn /English/chinatours/yangtze.htm (1703 words)

	Catholic World News : Last Chinese Bishop Appointed By Vatican Dies
		His body will be cremated and the ashes kept at the Sacred Heart church at Longbao, a suburb of Wanxian in central China.
		Born on February 22, 1908 in Daxian diocese, Sichuan Province, Matthias Duan Yinming studied for the priesthood in Rome at the Pontifical Urban University and was ordained a priest in Rome on March 27, 1937.
		Bishop Yuan spent ten years, on and off in cotton and battery factories, and another ten in reform-labor camps and indoctrination schools until 1979 when he was allowed to return to the Church in Wanxian.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=14657 (675 words)

	Gate 1 Travel - Ports of Call: Alaska
		Wanxian is a small mountainous city, known as the "Gateway to the Eastern Sichuan Province." Situated on a lush and picturesque site, Wanxian is an old river city, which once rivaled Chongqing in size and importance.
		Today, Wanxian is an important port and industrial center.
		The Wanxian tangerines, oranges and peaches are renowned throughout China.
	www.gate1travel.com /cruises/ships/Yangtze_sights.htm (1483 words)

	Wanxian Weather Guide cheap holidays and travel deals, flights and hotels to book online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wanxian Weather Guide - worldbookers has found results for your search term.
		Wanxian Yangtze Bridge in Chongqing Municipality (reinforced concrete arch bridge)...
		Disembark this morning for an excursion to Wanxian, an ancient town on the...
	www.worldbookers.co.uk /Wanxian-Weather-Guide.html (286 words)

	Three Gorges Probe - Three Gorges Dam news service
		As the results of the research reveal, resettling rural migrants in nearby areas has not only created many problems for the migrants themselves but has also had a profound impact on the existing residents in the host communities.
		By taking advantage of their favourable location - near the urban district of Wuqiao and just 15 km away from urban Wanxian - local officials and residents in Lishu village should consider a new approach to agriculture, which traditionally has been dependent on grain-growing and fruit tree-planting.
		As far as market potential is concerned, the demand for such produce is only going to rise, given that most of the original land used for growing vegetables and flowers in Wanxian is due to be flooded by the dam reservoir or occupied by buildings in the new town of Wanxian.
	www.threegorgesprobe.org /tgp/print.cfm?ContentID=3587 (3619 words)

	Metasequoia: collectors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The main waterway to the Hometown of Metasequoia is along the Yangtse/Yangzhi River - Changjiang in Central China, from the east, start at Shanghai, you would pass by Nanjing (Capital of Jiangshu province in East China), Jiujiang (Regional City of Jiangxi province, c.
		From Enshi in Hubei you could travel by Bus/Car to Lichuan (County), and then from Lichuan you could travel to the Hometown of Metasequoia; and estimated distances and travel times are: Enshi to Lichuan c.
		Note: Modao/Modaoxi is the site of the Type Tree of Metasequoia; and from Shuishaba to Xiaohe there was a large area with the native population of Metasequoia when it was discovered.
	www.metasequoia.org /travel.htm (263 words)

	The world famous Three Gorges On The Yangzi River Cruise
		This nomenclature groups into a set of three the numerous shoals and gorges of the Yangzi river between Wanxian and Yichang.
		The Three Gorges are the Qutang Gorge (8km long), the Wuxia Gorge (45km long) and the Xilong (66km long) Gorge.
		The first town we pass will be Baidicheng, a town closely associated with events of the "The Three Kingdoms".
	www.imperialtours.net /3gorges.htm (1071 words)

	wanxian email (spam-free!) and website community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It can be used for anything: the wanxian surname, the wanxian family, the wanxian fan club, the wanxian alumni group, wanxian genealogy, or any other community or group about wanxian.
		This your chance to get a matching wanxian email address, matching wanxian website and matching wanxian single sign-on "passport" (once these are commonly accepted).
		If you were looking for a different wanxian, please do a wanxian search here.
	www.wanxian.pw (359 words)

	West
		In 1943, Tan Zhongheng, a university student from the county of Wanxian, fell in love with Huang Ronggao, a senior high school student who lived in suburban Chongqing.
		Five years later, Huang's father approved their marriage, but asked Tan to take his mother to Chongqing to witness the marriage.
		Tan went back to Wanxian, but his family could not afford the cost of travelling to Chongqing.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /cndy/2006-12/21/content_764021.htm (162 words)

	Wanxian, Wanzhou, carrying vegetables in balanced baskets, sellers, market, China Photo 108503 by John S Murray
		Wanxian, Wanzhou, carrying vegetables in balanced baskets, sellers, market, China Photo 108503 by John S Murray
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		Carrying vegetables in balanced baskets in street market - Wanxian, China 108503
	johnsmurrayphotography.homestead.com /photo108503.html (131 words)

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