Yangling
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See also: Yánglíng
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 楊陵 / 杨陵 (Yánglíng).
Proper noun
Yangling
- A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
- 1993 August 10 [1993 June 6], “Everyone Contributes To Ensure Abundant Results From the Summer Harvest”, in JPRS Report China, number 93-058, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xian SHAANXI RIBAO p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:
- This year the Yangling district, designated by the provincial government as a base for harvesting improved seed varieties, not only planted the Xiaoyan numbers 6, 107, and 168 and the Shaanxi number 213 seed varieties which are so well-liked by the people, but it also planted such new and improved seed varieties as the superior new composite Xinong number 85 and the Shaanxi 229, 897, and 84G6 varieties, among others.
- 2014 October 12, Ian Johnson, “Once a Symbol of Power, Farming Now an Economic Drag in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2014, Asia Pacific:
- In Yangling, a district of 155,000 people that has been a center for agricultural sciences since the 1930s, several problems with the government’s attempt to sidestep privatization are apparent.
- 2022, Nury Turkel, chapter 1, in No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :
- After completing my Chinese language training, I was sent at the age of 20 to the Northwest A&F University in the Yangling District of Xiangyang, a city of some seven million people in Shaanxi province.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangling.