YU-LIN

Pinyin Yulin, city in the southeast of the Kwangsi Chuang autonomous ch' (district), China. Situated on the upper waters of the Nan-liu River, which drains southwestward into the Gulf of Tonkin to the west of Pei-hai, it is also a natural route centre from which highways extend in all directions, and since 1957 it has had a rail connection to Liu-chou and Nan-ning in the interior of Kwangsi and to the port of Chan-chiang in Kwangtung sheng (province). It is also a commercial and collecting centre for a somewhat unproductive agricultural area that suffers seriously from drought. Pop. (mid-1970s est.) 10,00050,000.