HU Chunhua 胡 春華

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Inner Mongolia   |  Little Hu and the Mining of the Grasslands; Soaring demand for a region’s minerals stirs unrest and brings challenges for a rising political star. Economist, July 14, 2012.
http://www.economist.com/node/21558605

Quote:

"He is thought to be President Hu’s favourite to head the 'sixth generation' of leaders that is expected to take over in 2022.

"By 2009 Inner Mongolia had become China’s largest producer of coal. It is the biggest source of the world’s supply of rare earths. The coal bed around Xilinhot, the capital of Xilin Gol, boasts 38% of global reserves of germanium, a rare earth used in the making of circuitry for solar cells and wind turbines.

Inner Mongolia's "coal output, which in 2011 was roughly the same as America’s.

"Over the past decade, thanks largely to the rush for resources, Inner Mongolia has recorded the fastest GDP growth of any Chinese province (17% annually on average between 2001 and 2011). But mine workers are mostly hired from elsewhere

"Mongols in Inner Mongolia see little attraction in unification with the far poorer Mongolian republic to the north (and few in the republic show much interest in expanding their territory southward).

Note:
(a) Hu Chunhua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Chunhua
(1963- ;  received his BA degree from Peking University in August 1983 [age 20], majoring in Chinese language and literature; After graduation, he volunteered to go work in Tibet [till 2006]; Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia since 2009)
(b)
(i) For Xilin Gol, see Xilingol League  锡林郭勒 盟
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilingol_League
(The seat is Xilinhot   锡林浩特)
(ii) The origin of Xilingol League:
Inner Mongolia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia
(section 2.3 The Qing period: The banners and tribes in this region came under six leagues (chuulghan): Jirim, Juuuda, Josutu, Xilingol, Ulanqab, and Yekejuu)

(c) Inner Mongolia  内蒙古 自治区, whose capital is Hohhot  呼和浩特
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohhot
(pinyin: Huhehaote; "The name of the city in Mongolian means 'Blue City.' The color blue in Mongolian culture is associated with the sky, eternity and purity"; Until 1954, Hohhot was referred to in Chinese as Guisui (歸綏 pinying: Guīsuī, Wade-Giles: Kweisui), which is the abbreviation of the two districts of the city: Guihua 歸化 and Suiyuan 綏遠)

(i) Taiwanese textbooks when I was a kid there have 綏遠 province instead.
(ii) Hohhot
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hohhot
(Etymology  Anglicization of Mongolian хөх хот "blue city")

(d) The article says, "The protests spread as far south as Zhenglan Qi, an area famous for the overgrown ruins of Kublai Khan’s capital, Shangdu (or Xanadu, as it is known to Coleridge-reading foreigners)."
(i) Zhenglan Qi  正蓝旗
(ii) Shangdu  上都 (compared with 大都, whcih is now Beijing) became Vanadu in the West.

Xanadu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu
(Xanadu was described by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan [completed in 1797 and published in 1816], by one of the leading English poets of the Romanticism movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1772-1824])

(e) ovoo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovoo
(Mongolian for heap)