Guyuan

See also: gùyuán and Gùyuán

English

Alternative forms

• Kuyuan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 固原 (Gùyuán).

Proper noun

Guyuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • 2004, Peter Ho, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture‎^[1], →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125‎^[2]:

     Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy.

   • 2016 October 25, Edward Wong, “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2016, World‎^[4]:

     Mr. Zhang said a main goal of moving people from Xihaigu was to turn the hills green, with a parallel planting program. More than two million acres have been converted to forest and pasture land, he said, citing the Guyuan area, where forest coverage was 22 percent last year, up from 4 percent in the 1980s.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Guyuan.
2. (historical) Synonym of Yuanzhou.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 固原 (zh) (Gùyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1478, columns 1, 2