Hongya
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪雅.
Proper noun
Hongya
- A county of Meishan, Sichuan, China.
- , volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page J 4:
- Finance and Revenue departments in Hungya County have seriously implemented the financial and economic general principle of developing the economy and guaranteeing supplies, grasped revolution and promoted production, actively supported industry and agriculture, promoted the development of production and increased revenue.]
- , →OCLC, page 17:
- Szechwan. […] By the end of 1977, Hungya County had some 22,600 oxen in sties.]
- 1998 November 15, Mark O'Neill, “Professor targeted over his TV exposure of illegal logging trade in precious”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 October 2023:
- The company used the money to buy a mine with 50 million cubic metres of granite in Hongya county, a poor, remote region in western Sichuan. […]
Hongya has the fourth largest natural forest in China with an area of 72,000 hectares. Ninety per cent of the trees are more than 100 years old.
- 2005, The Jade Garden: New & Notable Plants from Asia, Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 147:
- In June 1993, Roy Lancaster saw Ribes davidii in the wilds of Hongya County, southwestern Sichuan, growing as an epiphyte in cloud-forest communities at 2700 m, with Rhododendron moupinense, Vaccinium moupinense, and the intriguing pink-flowered, epiphytic Solomon’s seal, Heteropolygonatum xui.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hongya”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1305, column 1