Chengde
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See also: Chéngdé
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 承德 (Chéngdé, literally “Upholding or Receiving Virtue”).
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Chengde
- A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
- , volume I, number 218, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Shihchiachuang Hopei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 1:
- The Hopei Provincial CCP Committee has decided to publicize throughout the province a self-examination report prepared by the Chengte Prefectural CCP Committee concerning its mistakes in persecuting Chengte Teachers School cadres and masses, thereby infringing on people's democracy and violating party discipline in the matter of handling the question of school premises.]
- 2014 April 9, Austin Ramzy, “Beijing’s Neighbors Resist Transfer of Its Polluting Industries”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 July 2022:
- “This first wave of relocated companies are all highly polluting, high energy-consuming type businesses that will be a burden wherever they go, so at present the enthusiasm of Tianjin and Hebei to take them on isn’t high,” a district official from the Hebei city of Chengde told the newspaper.
- A county of Chengde, Hebei, China.
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prefecture-level city and county in Hebei
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chengteh or Ch’eng-te”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 383, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 2