Jingsha

Proper noun

Jingsha

1. (historical) Synonym of Jingzhou.
   • I remember attending a reception in Beijing to promote investment in Jingsha City, Hubei Province. The first speaker was Jingsha’s Party Secretary; the second speaker was the Mayor.1996, Laurence J. Brahm, “Red Capital”, in China as No. 1: The New Superpower Takes Centre Stage, Butterworth-Heinemann Asia, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153
   • Plans were also announced to build a new rail link from Wuhan directly to the Three Gorges via Jingsha and Yichang.[…]
   • The new Jingsha can be expected to grow rapidly, following the example of Xiangfan 200 kilometres to the north which was listed in 1992 with Wuhan among China’s top 54 cities (all had GDP exceeding ten billion renminbi annually).[…]
   • For all the talk of cooperation, Wuhan and Shanghai remain competitors, while the new Jingsha and other medium-sized cities will seek to challenge the dominance of the giants.1996, John Gittings, “A Tale of Two Cities - Hubei”, in Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke, Pocket Books, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 138–139

   Synonyms:

   Jingzhou