Yanchi

See also: yánchí and yǎnchī

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽池 / 盐池 (Yánchí).

Proper noun

Yanchi

1. A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia, China.
   • 1992, “Gansu and Qinghai”, in Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

     Two other stations—in Yanchi County, Ningxia, and Fengning County, Hebei— also study methods for rehabilitating and improving desertified rangeland. […]
     A project on the control and rehabilitation of desertified lands in Yanchi County includes the monitoring of productivity of vegetation in 23 permanent sites (9 on sand land, 4 on lowland, 10 on high plateau); experimentation with rangeland improvement in different habitats, mainly drifting sands and degraded vegeta¬ tion; and the introduction of more than 40 species of forage plants to improve or control rangeland quality.

   • 2011, “The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Adaptation in China”, in Climate Change Challenges in the Mekong Region‎^[2], Chiang Mai University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99:

     Improved resource management has also been observed in the grassland protection of Yanchi county, located in the central region of Ningxia. […] In order to protect the degrading grasslands, Yanchi county has forbidden grazing in grasslands since 2002 of which 5.5 million Mu were contracted out to households during 2002-03.

   • 2020 July 28, Stephen Chen, “China opens first large-scale helium plant as it tries to reduce reliance on US imports”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 July 2020, Science‎^[4]:

     The new factory, which started operating on Tuesday last week, could be about to change that.
     Located inside a natural gas processing plant in Yanchi county, Ningxia, it is the first facility in China that can produce helium at a commercial scale, according to a statement from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which designed and built it.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽池 / 盐池 (zh) (Yánchí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yenchih or Yen-ch’ih”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2121, column 3
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanchi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3513, column 3