Xingguo

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See also: xīngguó

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Map including HSING-KUO (XINGGUO) (DMA, 1996)

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興國 / 兴国 (Xīngguó).

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Xingguo

  1. A county of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
    • 1972 March, Chi Hung, “An Old Revolutionary Base—Yesterday and Today”, in China Reconstructs, volume 21, number 3, Peking, →OCLC, pages 24–25:
      HSINGKUO county in the hilly region of southern Kiangsi province was one of China’s earliest revolutionary bases. []
      Surrounded by mountains and crossed by the Lienchiang River, Hsingkuo county lies in a beautiful natural setting.
    • 1985, Harrison E. Salisbury, “A Walk by Moonlight”, in The Long March, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
      Chen Yi cursed as he had a hundred times since he had been carried from the front in Xingguo county six weeks ago with a bullet wound in his hip which refused to heal.
    • 1990, Mao Zedong, translated by Roger Thompson, Report from Xunwu, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210:
      There are very few geomancers in Xunwu County; most of them are from Xingguo.
    • 2022 August 10, Stephen Chen, “Chinese scientists say maglev ‘sky train’ floats without power using permanent magnets”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2022-08-10, Science‎:
      The 800-metre (2,600-foot) experimental Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo county, Jiangxi province, used powerful magnets rich in rare earth elements to produce a constantly repelling force strong enough to lift a train with 88 passengers in the air, according to a report by state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xingguo.

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