Wubu
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳堡／吴堡 (Wúbǔ).
Proper noun
Wubu
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- 1982 April 21 [1982 March 20], Yang Chengxun [楊承訓], “Role of the Rural Market in Promoting China's Modernization Program”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 222, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing JINGJI YANJIU, No 3, pp 20-26, translation of original in Chinese, page 26:
- According to an investigation made in Wubu County of Henan Province, the average per capita cash holdings of commune members in the countryside were 10.14 yuan at the end of 1978, 13.98 yuan at the end of 1979, and 20.59 yuan in 1980. In other words, over a 3-year period, the amount increased by over 100 percent.
- 2012 July 29, “40,800 relocated as flooding hits Yellow River”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 29 July 2012:
- The flux of a flood peak at the Wubu Hydrologic Station in Wubu county of Shaanxi's city of Yulin reached 10,600 cubic meters per second at 1 p.m. Friday, marking the highest level since 1989, the headquarters said.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wubu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3493, column 3
- Wubu, Wu-pu, Wupu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.