Haidian

Proper noun

Haidian

1. A former town (demolished in 2000) near the south of Old Summer Palace in China.
   • We woke up this morning to find ourselves in Communist territory. Advance Red units pushed past Yenching last night and occupied Haitien, the village just south of us on the road to Peiping.[1949 February 5 [1948 December 16], Samuel Moffett, “Behind the Curtain: Reds Occupy Yenching”, in Presbyterian Life, volume 2, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 3
2. A district of Beijing, China, named after the forementioned town inside.
   • They planned a large rally for July 26 at Chungkuantsun, a crossroads in the Haitien district, but Peking University students under the direction of Nieh Yuan-tzu blocked the streets with stalled buses and trucks.[1972, William Hinton, “People Set Aside”, in Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University, New York and London: Modern Review Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 188
   • Six new cases were found in Beijing's central districts of Chaoyang and Haidian. China is seeing a spike in cases due to domestic travel in the past month.2021 November 11, “Coronavirus digest: Germany reports new record-high case numbers”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2021