Wuzhong

See also: wùzhǒng and Wúzhōng

English

Alternative forms

• Wuchung

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹjo͝ongʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳中／吴中 (Wúzhōng).

Proper noun

Wuzhong

1. A district of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
   • 2022 October 20, ImmVira, “ImmVira announced to launch the construction of Global R&D and Commercialization Base”, in AP News; PR Newswire‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-30‎^[2]:

     Global R&D and Commercialization Base, with a first-phase building area of nearly 30,000 square meters, is located in Wuzhong, Suzhou, and is expected to be completed and put into operation in mid-2024 as an integrated base with comprehensive functions, including manufacturing, R&D and office.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳中／吴中 (zh) (Wúzhōng)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳忠／吴忠 (Wúzhōng).

Proper noun

Wuzhong

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • [1970, T. R. Tregear, An Economic Geography of China‎^[3], Butterworths, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60:

     The river, which is some 3,028 miles long and has a catchment basin of 250,000 sq. miles, rises in the Bayan Kara Shan (15,000 ft) of north-east Tibet and flows as a mountain torrent above Lanchow. Between Lanchow and Wuchung in Ningsia it descends on to the Inner Mongolian plateau and is less torrential although still of considerable strength. At Wuchung it starts on its northward course, known as the Great Bend, across the Ordos Desert.]

   • [1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[4], volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

     In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.]

   • 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese‎^[5], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:

     I was amused when one of my Hui colleagues who was present at an interview corrected a wheat farmer and sideline rope maker in Wuzhong, central Ningxia: "No you are not a 'Hui religion disciple' (Huijiao tu)" he reprimanded, "you are a 'Hui person' (Huimin). Hui believe in Islam (Yisilanjiao), not their own Hui religion."

   • 2016 February 1, Andrew Jacobs, “Light Government Touch Lets China’s Hui Practice Islam in the Open”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 February 2016, Asia Pacific‎^[7]:

     “The Hui used to live in separate neighborhoods, but these days, non-Muslims are moving to Muslim quarters because they are drawn to our clean food and our system of ethics,” said Ma Youming, 35, the production manager of a hat factory in Wuzhong that exports religious headwear to Indonesia, Malaysia and other Muslim countries. […]
     In places like Wuzhong and Linxia, officials have created special “Muslim products” industrial parks that offer inexpensive land and low taxes. Mr. Ma’s company, Yijia Ethnic Clothing, is among those that have benefited from favorable government policies.

   • 2020 June 11, William Zheng, “Chinese President Xi Jinping tries to reassure ethnic minorities they won’t be ‘left behind’”, in South China Morning Post‎^[8], archived from the original on 11 June 2020:

     Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought to reassure ethnic minorities that they are part of Beijing’s “common prosperity” programme during a visit to one of the country’s poorest regions.
     Xi made the remarks on Monday in Wuzhong, in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region – home to the Hui Muslim ethnic minority in the country’s northwest, according to state media reports on Wednesday.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吳忠／吴忠 (zh) (Wúzhōng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuzhong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 3
• Wuzhong, Wu-chung, Wuchung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.