Jinchang
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Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金昌 (Jīnchāng).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Jinchang
- A prefecture-level city in Gansu, in northwestern China.
- 2007, Rob Gifford, China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China[1], Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:
- When we reach Jinchang, another forlorn desert town, I change buses for another two-hour ride to the town of Yongchang, a few miles from a village where I’ve heard that locals make some extraordinary claims about their ancestry.
- 2021 June 4, “Train strikes, kills 9 workers on track in northwest China”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 04 June 2021[3]:
- It happened at 5:18 a.m. as the train negotiated a curve in the city of Jinchang in Gansu province about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) west of Beijing.
- 2023 February 4 [2023 January], “Building a Beautiful Home”, in All-China Women's Federation[4], archived from the original on 08 March 2023, Women in Action[5]:
- In Jinchuan District and Lanzhou New District, both in Jinchang, the supermarkets provide "shared products" to residents, where residents can borrow ladders or other tools as needed.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 1
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