Fushan County

Fushan County 浮山县
County
Fushan Location of the seat in Shanxi
Coordinates: 35°58′05″N 111°50′56″E / 35.968°N 111.849°E / 35.968; 111.849Coordinates: 35°58′05″N 111°50′56″E / 35.968°N 111.849°E / 35.968; 111.849
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Shanxi
Prefecture-level city	Linfen
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.fushan.gov.cn

Fushan County (Chinese: 浮山县; pinyin: Fúshān Xiàn) is a county in the municipal region of Linfen, in the south of Shanxi province, China. As of 2000 it had 121,323 residents.

Administration

Fushan runs two towns and thirteen townships. The executive, legislature and judiciary sit in Chengguan (城关镇), together with the CPC and PSB branches.^[1]

Fushan in the News

On 2009 September 13 about 400 people uniformed as police destroyed a church complex. As it was Sunday the buildings were in use. Several worshippers were struck, and some of them were taken to hospital. An unnamed female parishioner said seven people remained in hospital. (According to rights group ChinaAid, Sept 16).

A statement on the Fushan church's website said some of the injured were unconscious when taken there. Several buildings had been bulldozed and the complex looted, with Bibles, phones and money stolen.

A county executive officer said that, as the church was not licensed, one could not say that it was a "place of worship". It was merely a matter of demolishing an illegal structure "without a land certificate or construction design. The construction department and the land department government had talked to them several times before it was pulled down." he denied any violence had taken place, and refused to give his name to reporters.^[2]

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