Pingluo

English

Alternative forms

• Pinglo (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 平羅／平罗 (Píngluó).

Proper noun

Pingluo

1. A county of Shizuishan, Ningxia, China.
   • 1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, Encyclopedia of China Today‎^[1], Eurasia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

     Mining. Ningxia has reserves of coal in the Pingluo area near the eastern border.

   • 2004, Peter Ho, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture‎^[2], →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189‎^[3]:

     In a personal interview with Prof. Chen Zhongxiang from Ningxia University in September 1999 I was told that 85 per cent of the budget of Longde county come from taxes of its suspended village Chahu in Pingluo county.

   • 2006 August 11, “Ningxia — a cool journey to ancient ruins”, in Beijing Today‎^[4], number 271, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 20, column 3:

     Shahu Lake is at Pingluo County, 47 kilometers from Yinchuan. The southern part of Shahu Lake is covered with sand and the northern part is water.

   • 2022 July 7, “Local agricultural sector conducts trainings for villagers to ensure harvest efficiency in NW China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[5], archived from the original on 07 July 2022:

     Aerial photo taken on July 7, 2022 shows combine harvesters working at wheat fields in Xiaodianzi Village of Pingluo County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. As wheat harvest season comes, local agricultural sector in Pingluo County conducted series of trainings for villagers to ensure harvest with high quality and efficiency.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平羅／平罗 (zh) (Píngluó)

• Japanese: 平羅 (へいら, Heira)

Further reading

• Pingluo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingluo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3