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bingtuan

bingtuan noun: in China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.

Noun

bingtuan

  1. In China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.
    • The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the state enterprise that runs the bingtuan, the vast farms set up in the 1950s and afterward by the People’s Liberation Army to help populate the frontier region, reported a drop in the number of migrants going to Xinjiang after the July riots.2009 August 22, Edward Wong, “Workers Return to Restive China Region”, in New York Times

Origin of bingtuan

From Mandarin 兵团 (bīngtuán, “army unit, army formation”).

Questions about bingtuan

What does bingtuan mean?
Bingtuan means in China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.
What part of speech is bingtuan?
Bingtuan is a noun.

Words near bingtuan in the dictionary

  1. bingos
  2. bingpot
  3. bings
  4. bingsu
  5. bingsus
  6. bingtuan
  7. bingy
  8. Bingöl
  9. Binh Duong
  10. Binhai
  11. Binham

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