Shengyou

Shengyou (simplified Chinese: 绳油; traditional Chinese: 繩油; pinyin: Shéngyóu) is a village in Kaiyuan (开元镇), south of Dingzhou City in Hebei, China.^[1][2]

Shengyou 绳油村
Village
Kaihua Location in Hebei
Coordinates: 38°29′25″N 114°49′32″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hebei
Prefecture-level city	Baoding
County-level city	Dingzhou
Town	Kaiyuan
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

History

Main article: Shengyou–Guohua Dingzhou Power Plant dispute

On the night of April 20, 2005, and later in the early morning of June 11, 2015, occurred incidents in which over two hundred allegedly hired thugs descended on the village and clashed with local residents over a land dispute with a nearby power company. Seven people were killed, and 48 others were injured and hospitalized, eight of whom were in critical condition.^[3] The chaos was captured on video by one of the farmers and later released by The Washington Post.

See also

• List of villages in China