The Chinsha was a formidable obstacle, falling from a height above sea level of some 8,200 feet at Paan or Batang on the Szechuan-Tibet border to less than 900 feet at Yipin, where it enters the Red Basin to become the Yangtze. From beginning to end, from the headwater in Chinghai to Yipin, the Chinsha River falls by an average of about eighteen feet per mile.
TOWARD the end of April we reached the Yunnan-Kweichow border and pretended to be making for lightly-defended Kunming. Then the Red Army suddenly turned northwest, came to Chiaochetu on the Chinsha River (the upper Yangtze) and began to cross to its north bank. The Fifth Corps was to block the enemy at the Shihpan River and hold him off until the army had completed the Chinsha crossing.
a) Strengthening the organization of fishermen by reorganizing the Kinmen county fishermen's association and establishing five new township FA's at Chinhu, Chinsha,[…] subsidy of NT$800,000, the Wuyi Dam was built on Chinsha stream, measuring 6.8 meters in height and 10 meters in length, with a left canal 1.2 km. long, and the right one, 3.1 km.
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][6], 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][7], 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.
Most villages provide adequate accommodation except Chinsha Township. For visitors, estimated WTP is 13,460.45 NTD per visit to Kinmen National Park.
2010 May, Michael Burkhardt, “Chinese Frequency Dictionary”, in TPS Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese[10], 1st edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 248, column 1:
金沙 [jīnshā][…]Chinsha town in Kinmen 金门县[Jīn mén xiàn] (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
2013 July 20, “City God Birthday Festival : Jinsha Shaobei – Kinmen Island”, in Visions of Travel[11] (Travel Blog), archived from the original on 17 February 2016[12]:
Cheng-Huang Miao (City God Temple) was built in every administrative center since Min Dynasty. There are three temples of the City God in Kinmen. Cheng-Huan in Tien-pu, Chinsha, is the oldest.
2016 April 15, “Areas of Jurisdiction”, in 福建金門地方檢察署 [Fuchien Kinmen District Prosecutors Office][13], archived from the original on 19 May 2022[14]:
Six towns and townships make up Kinmen County namely, Chincheng Town, Chinhu Town, Chinsha Town, Chining Township, Lieyu Township, and Wuchio Township. The total land area is 150 square kilometers with a population of about 80,000.
Jinsha Village, located at the southwestern corner of Nangan, is the most West point of Matsu Island Chain.[…]The Village used to be called Chinsha because the sand on the beach glitters in the sunshine.
2012 July 29, “Matsu makes bid to lure more tourists from China”, in Taipei Times[16], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-02, Taiwan News, page 3[17]:
Chinsha Village on Nankan Island in the Matsu archipelago is seen on July 9.
