county-level city
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English
Etymology
Calque of Chinese 縣級市／县级市 (xiànjíshì, literally “county-level city”)
Noun
county-level city (plural county-level cities)
- An administrative division of China immediately below the prefecture level.
- 2019 September 3, Min Zhang, Tom Daly, “China iron ore, steel futures rise on lenient output curbs”, in Sherry Jacob-Phillips, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 August 2022, Metals News:
- “Overall production curbs in Tangshan in September are on par with August, which are loose,” Huatai Futures said in a note, adding that output restrictions in Wuan, county-level city of the second-biggest steelmaking city of Handan, tightened slightly this month compared with August.
- 2020 August 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Former Camp Detainees Serving ‘Deferred’ Jail Sentences in Xinjiang’s Korla City”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on August 28, 2020:
- RFA’s Uyghur Service recently received information that the former detainees in Korla (in Chinese, Kuerle)—a county-level city in Bayin’gholin Mongol (in Chinese, Bayinguoleng Menggu) Autonomous Prefecture and the XUAR’s scond-largest city—are serving the deferred sentences at home, but are subject to harsh restrictions.
Translations
administrative division