Chinning

See also: chinning

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 金寧 (Jīnníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-ning².

Proper noun

Chinning

Alternative form of Jinning (Taiwan)
- 1967, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎^[1], number 19, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:
  In the year under review the Kinmen Agricultural Experiment Station carried out a series of tests on cultural and varietal […] 48 and 60 to be the ideal varieties for spring and fall planting at Chinning and Chinsha, respectively .
- 1991 September, Chin-ju Chang, 光華 [Sinorama]‎^[2], volume 16, numbers 7-12, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15; republished as “Kinmen Changes into its Civvies”, in Peter Eberly, transl., 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama]‎^[3], 1991, archived from the original on 20 October 2022, 島嶼行旅:
  Soldiers Spark a Shopping Strip: Chinhu Village, located in the southeast of the island, out of the range of the Communists' artillery shells and protected by Mt. Taiwu, was just a place of windblown rock and sand without any road to the outside, before 1958. Later, people from Chinsha and Chinning to the north started moving in, and thanks to the purchasing power of the troops stationed at Mt. Taiwu, Chungcheng Rd. and Fuhsing Rd.now bristle with two or three hundred stores--the local people call the shopping strip "Shanwai" or "over the mountain"--and Chinhu has become the latest area of prosperity on the island.
- 1991, COA General Report‎^[4], number 7, Council of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
  (iv) Improvement of tap water in isolated areas: The Tienpu Reservoir was deepened by 40,000 cubic meters of earth, monitoring wells were dug at Chincheng and Chinning, and two chlorinators and 14 chemical injection machines were added for […]
- 1992, An Outline of Interior Affairs, Republic of China‎^[5], Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, →OCLC, page 55:
  Chinmen […] 34,540 parcels of land equal to area of 2,212 hectares. It covers Chincheng and Chinning. To clarify and to save time and personnel, we design […]
- 2001, 光華 [Sinorama]‎^[6], volume 26, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 87:
  They will also conduct more tests for diabetes among residents over 40 in the Chinhu and Chinning areas of […]
- 2009 May 19, “Taiwanese outpost reaps benefits of warming China ties”, in Terra Daily‎^[7], AFP, archived from the original on 11 August 2014, Trade Wars‎^[8]:
  From the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, it is easy to see across the water to China's industrial and trading city of Xiamen, just a few kilometres away on the mainland. […]
  In the Chinning township, two busloads of tourists from the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang swamp a shop selling knives recast from the remains of the shells fired onto the island by Chinese troops.
- 2019 January 22, “乳山故壘 [Old Rushan Fort]”, in Department of Tourism, Kinmen County Government‎^[9], archived from the original on 30 September 2020, Attractions Search‎^[10]:
  Located in the south of Zhongzheng Memorial Forest in Chinning Township, Old Rushan Fort is the highest spot in Zhongzheng Forest.