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Chiyuan

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See also: chíyuán

English

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 濟源济源 (Jǐyuán), Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-yüan².

Proper noun

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Chiyuan

  1. Alternative form of Jiyuan
    • 1971, Harry Harding, Jr., “Maoist Theories of Policy-Making and Organization”, in Thomas W. Robinson, editor, The Cultural Revolution in China[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:
      A graphic illustration of the operational differences between the two policy-making modes is the construction of an aqueduct between two rivers in Chiyuan County of Honan Province.⁵⁶ The basic problem was simple. The county lies in a rugged, mountainous region, between the Chinho and Mangho Rivers.
    • 1971, Rewi Alley, “In and around Canton in November 1970”, in Eastern Horizon[2], volume X, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 2:
      Chiyuan, Honan
      Away in the west of Honan, among the foothills of Taihang Shan, so famous as a fighting base in the War of Resistance, there lies the 1,900-square-kilometre county of Chiyuan.
    • 1973, Robert A. Harper, Theodore H. Schmudde, “India and China: Two Approaches to the Population Problem”, in Between Two Worlds: A New Introduction to Geography[3], Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 546, column 1:
      Emphasis is on small but complete local industrial systems. In Chiyuan County, Honan, such a system includes an iron and steel plant, collieries, sulfur mills, machinery plants, a metallurgical plant, and plants or mills producing refractory materials, cement, chemicals, ceramics, knitwear, and paper among twenty county-run plants and mines and seventeen commune-run factories.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiyuan.