Xinlitun (Chinese: 新立屯),or Hsin-li-t’un,[1] is a town within Heishan County in Jinzhou prefecture, Liaoning, China. It's in the north east of the prefecture about 100 km west of Shenyang city.

During the Chinese Civil war, Xinlitun and other peripheral towns of Shenyang were captured under command of Lin Biao in January 1948.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Agency, United States Defense Mapping; Names, United States Board on Geographic (1979). Gazetteer of the People's Republic of China: Pinyin to Wade-Giles, Wade-Giles to Pinyin. Defense Mapping Agency. p. 390.
  2. ↑ Tanner, Harold M. (2015-08-10). Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948. Indiana University Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-253-01699-7.
  3. ↑ Westad, Odd Arne (2003). Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. Stanford University Press. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-8047-4484-3.

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