Chongming

Proper noun

Chongming

1. (historical) A former town in Jiangsu, China.
2. An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
   • Empty inside
     Hu, who has worked in marketing and supply chains for French companies like personal-care giant L'Oreal and sports retailer Decathlon, said that in her career she "appeared happy on the outside, but felt empty inside."
     She now sows organic, pesticide- and fertiliser-free sweet...2021 November 17, “China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land”, in France 24, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2021
3. A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.
   • At a regular press conference, an official from the Chongming district, an outlying island area, said most curbs would be kept in place, although it has reported zero cases outside quarantined areas and 90% of its 640,000-or-so residents were now in theory allowed to leave their homes.2022 April 21, Brenda Goh, Ella Cao, Marius Zaharia, “Shanghai people 'not free to fly' out of homes as COVID cases tick back up”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived from the original...