Meanings
- A district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China.
The city of Pingxiang, which includes the Anyuan district of Mao fame, is home to eight state-run coal mines.
2016 April 11, Hannah Beech, “Labor Unrest Grows in China, Even in the Historic Heartlands of Revolution”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 Apr 20161 more example
Mao returned to Pingxiang County a year later, in the fall of 1921, and visited the Anyuan district. In an attempt to organize the miners in this area on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, Mao spent a week in the fall of 1921 investigating the lives of miners and their families.
1990, Mao Zedong, “Introduction”, in Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24
Origin
- Mandarin安源
- EnglishAnyuan
From the Mandarin 安源.
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Chinese Cantonese 安源
- 安源district
Chinese Mandarin 安源
- 安源district
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Anyuan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anyuan
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