Gejiu

English

Alternative forms

• Kochiu (dated)
• Ko-chiu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 箇舊／个旧 (Gèjiù).

Proper noun

Gejiu

1. A county-level city in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
   • [1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎^[1], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 97:

     The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.]

   • [1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China)‎^[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 56–57:

     According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test the experiment. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.]

   • 2005 June 16, Jim Yardley, “Chinese City Emerges As Model in AIDS Fight”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     In Gejiu, a city of 310,000 people on a route favored by drug traffickers, initial rounds of AIDS testing in recent years found more than 1,000 people with H.I.V., nearly all drug users or prostitutes. Tong Waiyuan, a vice mayor, explained that Yunnan's new plan included needle exchanges, condom promotion, and more testing and education and counseling.

   • 2010 June 3, “China's Gejiu area lead smelters face closure -industry”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 30 May 2022, Metals News‎^[6]:

     An estimated 50,000 tonnes of capacity is expected to be closed in 2010 among 53 lead smelters in the Shadian industrial section of Gejiu city in Yunnan province which has 500,000 tonnes of lead smelting capacity a year, local officials said Thursday.

Translations

county-level city of Yunnan, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 箇舊／个旧 (zh) (Gèjiù)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gejiu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1333, column 3