Baiyin
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- A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
- [1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Kansu Corridor”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71[1], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 294:
- Metallic minerals are associated mainly with the copper-mining center of Paiyin, 45 miles northeast of Lanchow. Paiyin was raised to the status of city in 1958, after construction of the Lanchow-Paotow railroad had provided access to the deposit.]
- 2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 March 2018, Asia Pacific[3]:
- Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was not unexpected in China, which executes more prisoners than any other.