Ziyang

An official at the health bureau of the Sichuan Province city of Ziyang, one of the places where the disease was found, discounted reports that it could be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but he declined to elaborate.[…] As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.

When Tzuyang county in the Tapa Mountains in Shensi province was launching a movement to build irrigation works, the county's art troupe was visiting the Lienho commune. When they saw how hard the commune members worked to dig tunnels through the mountains to bring water from the Pan River for irrigation, and the backbreaking labor necessary to build terraced fields, the troupe members were deeply moved.

The Se content of liver in Ziyang County, Shaanxi Province, was significantly high, with a mean level of 3.30 = 1.21 ppm (dry matter), and serious Se intoxication in animals and human beings has occurred.

As just one examples, on the other side of China a parallel occurrence is recorded in the gazetteer published by Ziyang county in Shaanxi Province (Xian: Sangin Chubanshe, pp. 521-26): During the nationwide wave of “power seizures” in early 1967, two antagonistic factions had emerged in the county capital—“Eryipai,” to which the preponderance of teachers and secondary-school students belonged, and “Erliupai,” based more heavily on cadres, peasants and workers. In 1968 the factional fighting in the county escalated, and in April military and police ammunition was seized by the two factions. Members of the weaker Eryipai soon thereafter fled the county and joined their allies in neighboring counties. Amid rear-guard armed fighting, many of the adherents of Eryipai who remained behind were rounded up, along with their families and members of the “bad classes.” Over 400 were tortured and then murdered, including 211 labeled as “bad- class.” By the end of 1968 a PLA unit entered the county to end the bloodshed.

Wei was elected to the NPC by the Shaanxi PPC, and to the Shaanxi PPC by the Ziyang County PC through indirect elections.