Hooks of willow wood or bone (often from wishbone) and copper gorges (thin bipointed rods with a fishline attachment in the middle) could be baited with fish scrap or meat.

In a water pollution case of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) v. Longde County People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and other eight defendants, the plaintiff CBCGDF claimed that Longde County Government was negligent in supervision and tolerated for a longtime local enterprises to discharge pollutants into the river, resulting in pollution of the drinking water source in the downstream of Jingning County.

Until 1982, there had been fewer and less complex debt reschedulings, and the agencies may have been able to operate under better-defined guidelines.

Amoy is one of the three Chinese ports closer to the Japanese colony of Taiwan (Formosa) than are any ports in the Japanese Empire proper.