Minhang

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Minhang District in Shanghai

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Etymology

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 閔行闵行 (Mǐnháng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪnhɑŋ/, /mɪnhæŋ/

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Minhang

  1. A district of Shanghai, China.
    • 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “The Middle and Lower Yangtze Region”, in 中国地理概述, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 114:
      Innovations and new construction of the last decade have brought about remarkable changes in Shanghai’s industrial outlook. A dozen industrial districts, such as Minhang, Woosung and Pengpu, which have been built up or extended, have done much to remedy the inadequacies and overconcentration of the past.
    • 2007 August 8, Howard W. French, “Dream of high-speed rail may prove Shanghai politician's final nightmare”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2023, Asia Pacific‎:
      Unlike the crowds of poor and elderly who often braved repeated arrest to protest the evictions, the opponents of the maglev line have mostly been members of the city's new and fast-growing middle class who live along the proposed train route, in the city's Minhang district.
    • 2022 June 8, “Shanghai's Minhang district announces new lockdown”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 09 June 2022, China‎:
      The sprawling district of Minhang in central Shanghai has implemented new lockdown measures to detect and control COVID-19 transmission risks, the district government said on Thursday.

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