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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 益都.
Proper noun
Yitu
- Alternative form of Yidu
1946 June 30, “Minutes of Meeting Between General Marshall and General Chou En-lai at 5 Nin Hai Road, Nanking, June 30, 1946, 2:15 p. m.”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1946, volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1972, →OCLC, page 1268:Thirdly, regarding the four blown-up bridges on the Tsingtao-Tsinan RR; the reason for the destruction was due to the fact that the Nationalist Eighth Army recently occupied Yitu. After the occupation of Yitu, the Communists, to defend themselves, blew up the bridges.
1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 79:The cotton-growing centres are on the northwestern plains, while the tobacco is found chiefly in the better-irrigated areas along the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway, with Yitu as the centre.
1978 August, “The Many Way to Farm Mechanization”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 8, →OCLC, page 25:Much of the new farm equipment is being made in small factories like the machinery plant set up by the Huanglou commune in Yitu county.
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