Taching
See also: Ta-ch'ing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 大慶／大庆 (Dàqìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-chʻing⁴.
Proper noun
[edit]Taching
- Alternative form of Daqing (Prefecture-level City)
- 1976, Wilfred Burchett, China: The Quality of Life[1], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:
- That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long week-end, obviously did not surprise us. That concept of 'Great Celebration' left for Taiwan with the Kuomintang. It was difficult at first to locate Taching city - an oilfield capital.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taching.
- Alternative form of Daqing (Oil Field)
- 1975 July 9 [1975 July 8], “China Completes Pipeline”, in The New York Times[3], sourced from TOKYO, (AP), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 07, 2024, page 64[4]:
- A 221‐mile oil pipeline has been completed from the North China port of Chinhuangtao to Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported today. Hsinhua said it is part of a 937‐mile pipeline from the Taching oil field in northeast China.
- 1993, Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Forces for Change in Contemporary China[5], University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:
- Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taching.
Translations
[edit]Daqing — see Daqing
Further reading
[edit]- “Taching, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.