People's Republic
See also: people's republic
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]People's Republic (plural People's Republics)
- Alternative form of people's republic.
Proper noun
[edit]- (elliptical with the) Ellipsis of People's Republic of China.
- 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229:
- While he was reticent to speak up at my request, a number of his former colleagues made themselves helpful, particularly in making me aware of the nominee’s previously published work laying out a plan for the U.S. to abandon its allegiance to Taiwan in favor of the People’s Republic.
- 2012 [1998 April 12], Zemin Jiang, “Leading Cadres Need to Increase their Political Discernment and Acuity”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin[2], volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
- One of these report[sic – meaning reports] states that the Wolong District of Nanyang, Henan Province, has built a memorial to honest and upright officials, at which statues representing a number of feudal officials were erected together with ones to comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, and nine marshals of the People’s Republic.
- 2018, Jinping Xi, The Governance of China, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:
- In a windswept location in the Mu Us Desert (Ordos Desert), Youyu County of Shanxi Province is a barren land battered by sandstorms and with minimal natural resources. In the early days of the People’s Republic, the county’s first Party secretary led the people to initiate an afforestation project to curb encroachment by the sand.