Yangquan

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽泉 / 阳泉 (Yángquán).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yängʹchü-änʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Yang‧quan

Proper noun

Yangquan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
    • [1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China‎[2], Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:
      Yangchuan, the leading anthracite producer in China with twelve pairs of mine shafts, fulfilled its 1975 target forty-one days ahead of time and probably produced 7 to 9 million tons during the year.]
    • 2018 May 2, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China bans new polluting projects in three cities: ministry”, in Philip McClellan, editor, Reuters‎[3], archived from the original on 28 May 2023‎[4]:
      The mayors of Handan in Hebei province and Jincheng and Yangquan in Shanxi province were given the orders after being summoned to a meeting at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in Beijing on Thursday to account for their actions during a recent campaign against smog.

Translations

References

  1. ^ “Yang-ch’üan”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎[1], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 871, column 1

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