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  1. Zhengzhou, or Chengchow. Industrial city
  2. (light engineering, cotton textiles, foods)
  3. and capital (from 1954) of Henan province,
  4. China, on the Huang Ho; population (1996)
  5. 1,590,000.
  6. In the 1970s the earliest city found in
  7. China, from 1500 BC, was excavated near the
  8. walls of Zhengzhou. The Shaolin temple, where
  9. the martial art of kung fu originated, is
  10. nearby.
  11.