Citations:Zhongwei

English citations of Zhongwei

[1908, Jacques de Lesdain, “Fu-ma-fu”, in From Pekin to Sikkim through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet‎^[1], New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, page 113:
The town of Chung-wëi is not large. Within its walls many dwellings are in ruins and, beyond the wool trade, which is important, there is not much traffic. Several European firms keep agents there to buy wool. On the road to Ning-hsia, following the river front, was formerly a bastion three-quarters of a mile from that town. Around its ruins, has grown up the suburb in which we were temporary residents.]
[1958 June 16 [1958 May 13], “Rain in Desert Speeds Tracklaying Near Chung-wei”, in Weekly Information Report on Communist China, number 212, Central Intelligence Agency, sourced from Peiping, Kung-jen Jih-pao, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Economic, page 36:
Tracklaying on the south section of the Pao-t'ou--Lan-chou Railway has been forging ahead across the 20-kilometers broad strip of the T'eng-ku-li desert despite unfavorable natural conditions. On 10 May the track- laying crew reached Sha-p'o-t'ou the highest point of the sea of shifting sand dunes, in the course of an extremely rare rainfall. This was so refreshing that the tracklaying proceeded at the rate of 5 kilometers per day, and by nightfall the tracks had reached a point less than 20 kilometers south of the city of Chung-wei.]
[1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[2], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province. […]
Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.]
[1978, Chung Chih [众志], “Deserts”, in An Outline of Chinese Geography [中国地理简况]‎^[3], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 106:
The longest stretch of uninterrupted desertland it traverses, 16 kilometres, is in Shapotou of Chungwei County in the southeastern Tyngeri Desert. It is an area of sand dunes where the climate is dry and there are frequent strong winds.]
1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:
WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.
1982, The Desert Realm‎^[5], National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.
2006 July 3, David Lague, “China devotes funds to impoverished west - Business - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2023, International Business:
The new projects approved by the commission include a rail link between Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in central China, and the city of Zhongwei in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest, state media reported.