Langfang
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Etymology
Proper noun
Langfang
- A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
- 1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
- While there he received a wire from Tuan Ch’i-jui, who was at that time Minister of War and Premier, ordering him to station the bulk of his troops in the vicinity of Langfang, about halfway between Peking and Tientsin.
- 2021 January 11, Jing Wang, Andrew Galbraith, Roxanne Liu, Lusha Zhang, Se Young Lee, “Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat”, in Michael Perry, Raju Gopalakrishnan, Sam Holmes, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 January 2021, Healthcare & Pharma:
- The city of Langfang in Hebei on Tuesday said its 4.9 million residents will be put under home quarantine for seven days and be subject to mass COVID-10 testing in the latest attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Two counties under Langfang’s jurisdiction that border Beijing, Guan and Sanhe, had already announced home quarantine measures.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langfang.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Langfang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1682, column 3