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Shanghang

Shanghang proper noun: a county of Longyan, Fujian, China.

Proper noun

Shanghang

  1. A county of Longyan, Fujian, China.
    • In June of that year, Lin led a Red Army detachment to the village of Tsaihsi, in the Shanghang county of Fukien Province.1970, Martin Ebon, “Boy from Hupeh (1907-1930)”, in Lin Piao: The Life and Writings of China's New Ruler, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19
    • The second item describes the progress the new cadres have made in their training in Shanghang County, Fukien Province. It reports that a large number of new cadres who account for a third of the cadres serving in the leading groups at the county, commune, and production brigade levels, have grown...1972 August 24 [1972 August 18], “Training Program for New Cadres Underway in Counties”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 166, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...

Examples of Shanghang in a sentence

  • The second item describes the progress the new cadres have made in their training in Shanghang County, Fukien Province.1972 August 24 [1972 August 18], “Training Program for New Cadres Underway in Counties”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China...
  • Riverside Pavilion, to the east of Floating Bridge Gate, Shanghang County in western Fukien Province is an unusual pavilion.1977, Ho Wei, “My Visits to Riverside Pavilion”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], volume 7, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 10:
  • Zijin had been ordered to curb gold mining production after a pollution discharge in Shanghang county, Fujian province, and it expected to lose about 1 tonne of gold production this year as a result.2010 July 28, Donny Kwok, “Zijin says executive detained in toxic spill probe”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters, archived from the original...

Origin of Shanghang

From Mandarin 上杭 (Shàngháng).

Questions about Shanghang

What does Shanghang mean?
Shanghang means a county of Longyan, Fujian, China.
How do you use Shanghang in a sentence?
The second item describes the progress the new cadres have made in their training in Shanghang County, Fukien Province.
What part of speech is Shanghang?
Shanghang is a proper noun.

Words near Shanghang in the dictionary

  1. shanghaiings
  2. Shanghailander
  3. Shanghailanders
  4. Shanghainese
  5. shanghais
  6. Shanghang
  7. Shanghuan
  8. shangie
  9. shangies
  10. Shangjao
  11. Shangjie

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