Daqing

See also: Dàqīng and Dàqìng

English

Alternative forms

• Taching, Ta-ch'ing (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大慶 / 大庆 (Dàqìng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/

Proper noun

Daqing

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
   • 2010 August 30, “Putin inaugurates Russian section of pipeline to China”, in France 24‎^[2], archived from the original on 02 September 2010:

     "The Russian part of the project is completed," Putin said at an opening ceremony in Skovorodino in the Far Eastern Amur region in comments published on his official web site.
     The branch pipeline will ultimately transport crude oil from Siberia to refineries in the northeastern Chinese city of Daqing.

   • 2013, Robert W. Cox, “The Emergence of China”, in Universal Foreigner: The Individual and the World‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 284:

     From Daqing we took the train to the far north of China at Qiqihaer, described to me as a relatively small Chinese city of about six million people!

   • 2016 October 18, Owen Guo, Neil Gough, “As China Shifts From Exporter to Importer, Fortunes Change”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2016, Energy & Environment‎^[5]:

     His parents work for a state oil company in the northeastern Chinese city of Daqing, and during at least one summer break when he was a child, he tagged along with his father, an oil engineer, on an exploration mission.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daqing.
2. An oil field in Daqing, Heilongjiang, China.
   • 1980, Edward C. T. Chao, “Earth Sciences”, in Leo A. Orleans, editor, Science in Contemporary China‎^[6], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 208:

     The oil and gas from the giant Daqing oil field are being produced from a broad anticlinal structure in continental Cretaceous formations with minor undulations covering an area of up to 30 km in width and 50 to 60 km in length, trending north northeast.⁶¹ This structure is located in the northern part of the Songliao basin, about 160 km northwest of Haerbin in Heilongjiang province.

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: دَاتْشِينْغ m (datšīnḡ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大慶 / 大庆 (zh) (Dàqìng)

• Hungarian: Tacsing (hu)
• Japanese: 大慶 (ja) (だいけい, Daikei)
• Korean: 다칭 (Daching)
• Russian: Даци́н m (Dacín)
• Vietnamese: Đại Khánh

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Daqing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 966, column 1