Pingliang

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See also: Píngliáng

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Etymology

From Mandarin 平涼 / 平凉 (Píngliáng).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pingliang

  1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
  • 2011 April 8, Reuters, “China: Tainted Milk Kills 3 Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2011, Asia Pacific‎:
    Three children have died and 35 people have become ill from drinking nitrite-tainted milk in Gansu Province in northwestern China, the Xinhua news agency reported Friday. In the latest food safety scandal to hit the dairy industry, most of the sick children were being treated at two hospitals in Pingliang city, Xinhua said.
  • 2023 May 10, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “China reports first arrest over fake news generated by ChatGPT”, in Christina Fincher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on May 10, 2023, Disrupted‎:
    A man in China's Gansu province has been detained for allegedly using ChatGPT to generate a fake story about a train crash, marking China's first arrest in an AI-related probe as Beijing tightens deepfake technology.
    The story, which claimed the crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China's northwestern Gansu, gained more than 15,000 clicks after being published on social media on April 25, Pingliang city's local police bureau reported.
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    References

    1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pingliang or P’ing-liang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1

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