an-t'u

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"On coming home in 1936, Mr. Liao Ch'ang-yin (at present 29 years old), a senior high school student, member of the First Production xxxxxxx Team of the Hsin-hsing Production Brigade, Wan-pao People's Commune, An-t'u Hsien, Chi-lin province, devoted himself to the study of various wetfield rice breeds."
"It behooves forestry-operation villages to adopt the policy of coordinating what is viable with what is economical to engage in items which require less money and yield large profit in order to achieve self-sufficiency in vegetables, meat and eggs. Whenever it is possible, they should also be self-sufficient in grain. For instance, the Miao-ling forestry-operation village in An-t'u hsien, Kirin, has done this in recent years."
"For one of many cases of RYs, see KMJP 10/27/72, in SCMP 5252, 11/9/72, concerning the deeds of Liu Ch’ang-yin, who returned to his Korean mountain village in An-t’u hsien, Kirin, in the 1950s and spent many years experimenting with the cultivation of rice in the mountains."

From Mandarin 安圖 /安图 (Āntú) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-tʻu².