Xuzhou noun2 •A prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China.T’ung-shan County in the Hsüchou district of Kiangsu was apparently famous for nonglutenous rice during the Han and Northern Wei dynasties (third century B.C. to third century A.D.). — 1980 •(historical) A former name of Yibin, a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China, at the confluence of the Min and Yangtze rivers.