Jiuquan

See also: jiǔquán

English

Alternative forms

• Chiu-ch'üan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán).

Proper noun

Jiuquan

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
   • [1963, Loren Fessler, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (Life World Library)‎^[1], New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

     There is considerable evidence that China is pushing its nuclear program in this area. Much of what goes on here, particularly around a wind-swept old oasis town named Chiuchuan (Liquor Springs), is known only to a few select planners — and perhaps to the distant American and Chinese specialists who evaluate the contents of monitoring devices borne by American-built U-2s flown from Taiwan.]

   • [1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

     After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.]

   • 2020 September 12, “China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 19 May 2022‎^[4]:

     The program has also suffered the occasional setback. The northwestern satellite launch center of Jiuquan reported that an optical satellite launched midday Saturday failed to enter its preset orbit after abnormalities were observed during the flight of its carrier rocket.

Translations

prefecture-level city in western China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酒泉 (zh) (Jiǔquán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Jiuquan in Encyclopædia Britannica
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiuquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 3