Hegang
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶴崗／鹤岗 (Hègǎng).
Proper noun
Hegang
- A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
- , Second edition, volume 2, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1979, →OCLC, page 386:
- The inmates who had survived until the collapse of the "Manchukuo" regime were now telling the People's Government with bitterness and hatred about what the puppet rulers had done to them. A peasant of Hokang city was arrested in 1944 and taken to the police headquarters on a charge of anti-Manchukuo and anti-Japanese activities. There were seventeen others there with him, and after being viciously beaten they were moved to the Hokang Reformatory and forced to mine coal in the Tungshan mines.]
- , New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:
- The principal coal centers are Kisi, northeast of Mutankiang, and Hokang and Shwangyashan, in the Kiamusze area, all producing coal of coking quality. Hokang, the most important coal field, has 5 billion tons of Jurassic coal, part of which is accessible to strip-mining operations. Development of the Hokang basin began in 1936 with construction of a rail spur southward to the riverside coal terminal of Lienkiangkow on the Sungari River, opposite Kiamusze.]
- 2009 November 21, Keith Bradsher, “At Least 92 Die in Chinese Mine Explosion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 February 2013, Asia Pacific:
- The explosion took place at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, in Heilongjiang province, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
- 2015 October 29, Joe Mandak, “Chinese woman pleads guilty in college test-taking scheme”, in AP News, sourced from PITTSBURGH (AP), archived from the original on May 09, 2024:
- Zou, from Hegang, a city in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, paid an unspecified sum for the TOEFL and $2,000 for the SAT, Kitchen told a judge in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.
Translations
prefecture-level city
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hegang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1259, column 3