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Hongsibu

Syllables: Hong·si·bu

Hongsibu proper noun: a district of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Hongsibu

  1. A district of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
    • One reason for Beijing's newfound urgency in chipping away at that staggering level of emissions can be found in the dusty, unprepossessing town of Hongsibu.[…]
    • The resettlement project is the most ambitious of its kind in China and perhaps the world. Officials see it as a triumph of government benevolence and engineering. “Its^([sic]) a miracle in poverty reduction, to take a piece of wasteland and transform it,” said Zheng Yaliang, Communist party...2015 November 15, Emma Graham-Harrison, “The coal boom choking China”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015
    Synonyms:
    Hongsibao, Hongsipu

Synonyms of Hongsibu

Origin of Hongsibu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅寺堡 /红寺堡 (Hóngsìbǔ).

Questions about Hongsibu

What does Hongsibu mean?
Hongsibu means a district of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Hongsibu?
Hongsibu is a proper noun.

Words near Hongsibu in the dictionary

  1. Hongshan
  2. hongshanornithid
  3. hongshanornithids
  4. hongshiite
  5. Hongshui
  6. Hongsibu
  7. Hongtong
  8. Hongtonggou
  9. hongweibing
  10. Hongya
  11. Hongze

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