Jiaocheng

• (from Wade–Giles) Chiao-ch'eng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 交城 (Jiāochéng).

Jiaocheng

1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • [1978 December, Alley, Rewi, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

     Chiaocheng County
     Chiaocheng county lies 60 kilometres southwest of Taiyuan. It is in the prefecture of Luliang, and a goodly part of it is in the Luliang Mountains, with the peak of Yunmeng Mountain dominating. It is well known as the birthplace of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. […]
     Chiaocheng county is one of 190,000 people, 180,000 of whom work on agriculture.]

   • 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China‎, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

     Fanjiazhuang, Jiaocheng
     In the summer of 1957, a group of paleoanthropologists on field investigation found a number of paleolithic stone artifacts at Fanjiazhuang Village northwest of Jiaocheng county in Shanxi Province.

   • 2016 February 18, Li Jing, “Save Our Statue: dramatic protest in China to save ex-leader Hua Guofeng’s figure from being demolished”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 19 February 2016, Policies & Politics‎:

     Residents had on January 27 erected the bronze statue of Hua, Mao Zedong’s hand-picked successor who led the party from 1976 to 1981, at a square outside Hua’s cemetery in Jiaocheng county.