Jingxin

See also: jīngxīn, jìngxīn, and Jìngxìn

English

Map including 敬信村 Ching-hsin-t'sun^{[sic – meaning Ching-hsin-ts'un]} (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 敬信 (Jìngxìn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒɪŋˈʃiːn/, /-ʃɪn/, enPR: jǐngʹshĭnʹ

Proper noun

Jingxin

1. A town in Hunchun, Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, formerly a township and before that a people's commune.
   • [1972 July 27 [1972 July 27], “All Nationalities Help Each Other in Kirin Chou”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 146, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 3‎^[2]:

     People in multi-national Hunchun County in Northeast China's Yenpien Korean Autonomous Chou (Kirin Province) have made rapid progress in the revolution and production by closing their ranks under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party's policy towards nationalities. […]
     Chin Cheng-ho, a veteran cadre of Korean nationality, is secretary of the Chinghsin commune party committee. During the Cultural Revolution, he has led the whole commune to learn from Tachai, national pace-setter in agriculture.]

   • 1995, Peter J. Rimmer, “Integrating China into East Asia: Cross-border Regions and Infrastructure Networks”, in Stuart Harris, Garry Klintworth, editors, China as a Great Power‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 319:

     More speculative plans are afoot for a world-class Tumen River Airport at Jingxin on China's border with Russia which lies on the polar route between Europe and Japan.

   • 2002, Jaeho Hwang, “Economic and Institutional Constraints on the TRADP”, in The Significance of Regionalism as an Element of China's Security and Foreign Policy: The Case of the Tumen River Area Development Project (TRADP)‎^[4] (Thesis), London School of Economics and Political Science, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 30, 2020, page 259:

     Uncoordinated expansion by competitive riparian countries would have caused waste or misallocation of scarce capital through overlapping projects, For example, the DPRK is trying to build Sonbong Airport, while China and Russia are holding out for their own international airports, in Jingxin and Khraskino.

   • 2019, Bo Gao, China's Economic Engagement in North Korea (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies)‎^[5], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94:

     For more than a decade, Chinese villagers in the Jingxin village on the Sino-DPRK border became used to hearing the noises of shooting and finding the floating corpses of North Korean escapees in the Tumen River.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jingxin.

Translations

town in northeast China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敬信 (Jìngxìn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 경신 (ko) (gyeongsin)

Further reading

• Jingxin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• jinxing