Topic summary
Liaodong
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Liaodong Peninsula.
Han to Qing
Liaodong was the primary destination of Shandong and Hebei refugees from the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879. A prior Qing prohibition on immigration to Northeast China was officially relaxed, marking the start of Chuang Guandong. In 1876, Chinese officials told the Customs commissioner at Yingkou that 600,000 people had landed on the Liaodong Peninsula. Government efforts to keep Manchu heartlands free of Chinese settlement resulted in a concentration of refugees in Liaodong.