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  • Wuwei — higher gas taxes would affect urban residents, but not necessarily all that much.

    Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010

  • Wuwei: What percent of people below the poverty line commute by car into a crowded urban center without alternative means of transportation?

    Matthew Yglesias » Another Reason for Congestion Pricing 2010

  • The official Xinhua news agency said that 60 were injured, 19 seriously, after an assailant threw the device into a staff meeting at a bank in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, in Wuwei city, Gansu province.

    Petrol bomb attack on China bank 2011

  • When Wuwei County was selected for the first trial of the "Care for Girls" program in 2003, the county family planning committee provided Ding with funds to grow food and vegetables at home while her husband received a four-wheel vehicle to transport goods.

    China’s Gender Imbalance Reaching Critical Stage | Impact Lab 2006

  • Major cities between Dunhuang and Lanzhou include Wuwei, Jinchang and Jiayuquan.

    Dulan Junipers and the Silk Road « Climate Audit 2007

  • Wuwei ultimately derives its meaning from wu, which as an ethical orientation privileges “not having” over the constant strivings of the mundane world.

    Laozi Chan, Alan 2007

  • Later, his guidebook confirmed that there were collapsed and half-sunken links of it between Wuwei and Zhangye, and just past Jiayuguan, a final gated watchtower.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • His train, however, was taking a more northerly path, and over the long course of the afternoon it roamed past the outpost town of Tianzhu and the green Wuwei Valley.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Later, his guidebook confirmed that there were collapsed and half-sunken links of it between Wuwei and Zhangye, and just past Jiayuguan, a final gated watchtower.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • His train, however, was taking a more northerly path, and over the long course of the afternoon it roamed past the outpost town of Tianzhu and the green Wuwei Valley.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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