Huining

Proper noun

Huining

1. A county of Baiyin, Gansu, China.
   • My wife used to work in the countryside, but I had her brought into town to look after me, thus turning her into an idle consumer. This is an extremely dangerous trend, and I should emulate the comrades of Huining County, Kansu Province, by returning with my family to my native village to...1969 January 2 [1968 December 22], Li Tou-tai, quotee, “Mao's Latest Instruction Encourages Masses”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 1, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...
   • A brief police account of the attack on Tuesday in semirural Huining County, Gansu Province, left many questions unanswered, including the identities of the victims.2019 February 6, Chris Buckley, “Eight Killed in Knife Attack in China Amid Lunar New Year Celebrations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2019, Asia Pacific
2. Synonym of Hoeryong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • The mineral resources of Kirin province have never been adequately studied. They are known to include, however, in addition to the gold and copper now being mined in the T’ien Pao Shan district contiguous to the proposed Huining (Kainei in Japanese) terminus of the Kirin-Tunhua-Huining railway...1928 July, C. Walter Young, “Chinese Colonization in Manchuria”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXIV, number 7, →OCLC, page 299, column 1
   • This line is a continuation of the Seoul-Gensan line and extends from Gensan, in South Kanko Province, to Kainei (Korean “Hoiryong”; Chinese “Huining”), in North Kanko, a distance of some 383.8 miles.1929 December, Ransford S. Miller, “Railway Development in Chosen”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXV, number 12, →OCLC, page 570, column 1

   Synonyms:

   Hoeryong