Lungchiang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍江 / 龙江 (Lóngjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Lungchiang

Alternative form of Longjiang.
- 1949, Anna Louis Strong, “The Chinese Conquer China”, in The Chinese Conquer China‎^[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 240:
  The reasons Chiang failed and the Communists succeeded appear from these examples. Everywhere in Manchuria's rural areas the "recovering armies" authorized by Chiang and led by landlords lived by requisitions which the peasants saw as loot. Governor Yu of Tsitsihar told me that these "recovering armies" had seized 10,500 head of livestock in Chinghsing County, 14,300 in Kannan County, 18,825 Lungchiang County, and so on.
- 1961 May 26, Li Fang, “Shelter-Belts in China's Northeast”, in Peking Review, volume IV, number 21, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
  This timber went into the building of water conservancy works, bridges, pigsties, sheep pens and stables and was also used to make farm tools, effectively promoting agricultural production. Between 1955 and 1959 many production brigades in Lungchiang County, Heilungkiang Province, derived an average annual income of from 26,000-30,000 yuan from their forest stands.
- 1977 July 1 [1977 June 27], “Mass Criticism and All-Out Efforts Have Brought About Major Victories in the Struggle Against Drought”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 127, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service, translation of original by HEILUNGKIANG DAILY reporter (in Mandarin), →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northeast Region, page L 5:
  During the spring sowing season, more than 40 percent of the local rural population worked in the fields in many counties and communes. Many counties, state farms, communes and production brigades launched socialist labor emulation campaigns. Lungchiang County originally planned to equip 600 pump wells this year. In the struggle against drought, the county equipped 454 pump wells and sank and equipped 413 new ones.
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