Shilu, Hainan

Shilu Town (Chinese: 石碌镇; pinyin: Shílù zhèn) is the county seat of Changjiang Li Autonomous County in China's Hainan Island. It is known for a major iron ore deposit (the Shilu Iron Ore Mine, 石碌铁矿), which has been worked since the Japanese occupation of the island in the early 1940s.[1]

For other uses, see Shilu.

Notes
  1. Vogel, Ezra F. (1990), One Step Ahead in China: Guandong Under Reform, Harvard University Press, p. 277, ISBN 0674639111

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