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Fuzhou, Foochow, Fuchoua port in SE China, capital of Fujian province on the Min Jiang: one of the...

a city in East China, in Fukien Province. Population, 119,000 (1959). Ch’üanchou is a port on the Formosa Strait and a transportation center on the Canton-Fuchou highway. The city produces textiles, including fabrics made from ramie fiber, and food products, such as polished rice, flour, and vegetable oil. Salt is mined in the area, and tea and fruit are shipped from the city.

... (1975). The capital is Fuchou.Agriculture, especially land cultivation, is the mainstay of Fukien’s economy. The cultivated areas, which make up more than 12 percent of the province, are primarily concentrated in the coastal lowlands and the river valleys; there are terraced fields on the mountain slopes. More than 70 percent of the cultivated land is ...

Born 1853 in Fuchou; died there Oct. 27, 1921. Chinese publicist and translator of books by Western European authors.From 1877 to 1879, Yen Fu attended the Royal Naval War College in Greenwich, Great Britain. He was close to the liberal ...

Born Nov. 10, 1812, in Hsiangyin District, Hunan Province; died Sept. 5, 1885, in Fuchou. Chinese administrator and military commander under the Ch’ing Dynasty.Tso launched his political career by helping to suppress the Taiping Rebellion of 1850–64. He served as governor of Kiangsu Province from 1861 to ...