Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te whakaturanga o te Republic of China, i te tau 1913 ka huri a Zhengzhou mai i te rohe e whakahaeretia ana mai i te taone nui, (直隶州"zhílìzhōu"), ki te Kaute o Zhengzhou (). I te tau 1920 i whakaarohia e te Kaunihera o Henan te whakatu i tetahi tauranga tauhokohoko i te taone nui, katahi i te Hui-tanguru 1923 ka mutu te Jinguan Railway i te wa o te "27 Major Strike" i arahina e te Communist (), i ahu mai i Zhengzhou engari i tere te whakatau. I te Poutu-te-rangi o taua tau ano, i whakaaetia e te Huihuinga Kaupapa Kawanatanga o te Kawanatanga o Beiyang te hanganga o te tauranga hokohoko i Zhengzhou me te whakatu i tetahi tari hokohoko a te kawanatanga hei whakahaere. I te tau 1927, ko te "Maheni Haerere" i whakapumautia i Shanghai, i whakaahuatia a Zhengzhou hei 'koromatua nui o te raki o Haina'. I whakaarahia a Zhengzhou ki te mana o te taone nui e te rangatira o te pakanga a Feng Yuxiang i te 1928, katahi i te 1931, whai muri i te pakanga hoia i waenga i a Chiang Kai-shek, Yan Xishan me Feng i te Pakanga Central Plains, ka noho ano a Zhengzhou hei kawanatanga. I te Pakanga Tuarua o Haina-Hapani, i te Pipiri 9, 1938, hei aukati i te whakaeke ki te hauauru o te ope taua a Hapani i te Raina o Longhai, i pupuhihia e nga hoia Nationalist KMT nga taiepa i te taha tonga o te awa kowhai i Huayuankou () i puta ai te
Te waipuke o te awa Yellow River i te tau 1938.