Definition of "Maoping"

Zigui, home of the Qu Yuan temple, was the first town to be completely relocated when, in 1999, the residents moved downstream to Maoping, not far from the dam site.

2002, Deirdre Chetham, “The Eve of the Flood”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎, Palgrave Macmillan, page 223

The relocation will affect all 99 residents of Miaohe, a village in the Maoping Township, in Zigui County, Central China's Hubei Province, which sits on the northern bank of the Yangtze, China's longest river.

2007 May 8, “Shifting land leads to evacuation in Three Gorges”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 10 May 2007‎