Huangchi

See also: Huang-ch'i

English

Alternative forms

• Huang-ch'i (also from Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃岐／黄岐 (Huángqí), Wade-Giles romanization: Huang²-chʻi².

Proper noun

Huangchi

1. Alternative form of Huangqi
   • [1951 June 22, “Chinese Communist Military Activities, East China”, in CIA‎^[1], page 3:

     19. On the evening of 11 June, Nationalist warships YUNG CH'UN (永春) and CHENG AN (正安) and the Nationalist gunboat HAI LI (海利) engaged in battle with 2 Chinese Communist converted 200-ton gunboats, and a 1,400-ton armored motor junk in the Huangch'iwan (黄岐湾) area, approximately 10 miles northwest of Matsu Island. The Nationalist warships had pursued the Chinese Communist vessels from the mouth of the Min River. The HAI LI joined the battle in the Huangch'iwan area. The Chinese Communist motor junk was destroyed and the gunboats were damaged. The coastal defense positions of the Chinese Communist Seacoast Defense Battalion (sic) with a total of 7 guns along Huangch'iwan were partially destroyed by the HAI LI when the battalion's guns fired on Nationalist vessels during the battle.]

   • 1965, News Letter, No. 27-29, p.7, →OCLC:

     On the Matsu front, Communist guns at Huangchi shelled 16 rounds against the Matsu Islands from 18:29 to 19:00.

   • 1965, Xin hua tong xun she, News from Hsinhua News Agency: daily bulletin[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, p.11

     between 01:19 and 06:26 hours on the same day, a u.s. warship intruded into china's territorial waters east of pingtan island and huangchi peninsula in fukien province.

   • 1967 March 5, “Red China Says U.S. Warships Intruded”, in Independent-Press-Telegram‎^[3], volume 15, number 29, Long Beach, Cali., sourced from Tokyo UPI, page A-21, column 3:

     Communist China charged Sunday that three U.S. warships and two planes intruded into its territory Saturday and issued its 427th "serious warning" to the United States.
     The New China News Agency said in a broadcast that two U.S. warships sailed into Red China's territorial waters off Pinhhai^{[sic – meaning Pinghai]} in Kwangtung Province, and that a third warship entered Chinese waters southeast of Huangchi Peninsula in Fukien Province.

   • 1967 March 6 [1967 March 4], “CHINA'S 427TH WARNING AGAINST PROVOCATIONS”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[4], number 44, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page BBB 1‎^[5]:

     On the same day, another U. S. warship intruded into China's territorial waters southeast of Huangchi Peninsula in Fukien Province between 0921 and 1957. […]
     A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized, in relation to those military provocations by U. S. military planes and warships, to issue the 427th serious warning.

   • 1973 May 11, “Taiwan Fisherman Compatriots Rescued”, in Peking Review‎^[6], volume 16, number 19, archived from the original on 12 May 2019, page 4:

     On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.

Translations

Huangqi — see Huangqi