Taching

From Mandarin 大慶／大庆 (Dàqìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-chʻing⁴.

Taching

1. Alternative form of Daqing (Prefecture-level City)
   • 1976, Wilfred Burchett, China: The Quality of Life‎, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:

     That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long week-end, obviously did not surprise us. That concept of 'Great Celebration' left for Taiwan with the Kuomintang. It was difficult at first to locate Taching city - an oilfield capital.

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2. Alternative form of Daqing (Oil Field)
   • 1973 April 29, “Red petroleum output is inadequate”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     Taching is supposed to be accounting for about a third of the total mainland oil output.

   • 1975 July 9 [1975 July 8], “China Completes Pipeline”, in The New York Times‎, sourced from TOKYO, (AP), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 07, 2024, page 64‎:

     A 221‐mile oil pipeline has been completed from the North China port of Chinhuangtao to Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported today. Hsinhua said it is part of a 937‐mile pipeline from the Taching oil field in northeast China.

   • 1993, Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Forces for Change in Contemporary China‎, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:

     Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis.

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• “Taching, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• cathing, chating, gnathic