Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
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Hebei Province, which surrounds Beijing, is China’s top steel-producing province. Steel plants play a big role in air and water pollution, but the city of Cangzhou’s answer to the problem is an anti-smoking campaign. A Hebei official newspaper, Yanzhao Dushi Bao, reported in July that local officials in Cangzhou held a public meeting pledging their commitment to the anti-smoking cause. With smoke billowing from the chimneys of factories in the distance, officials promoted the slogan: “Curbing air pollution starts with me!”
2013 October 29, Yu Hua, “Jokes, Lies and Pollution in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2013, Opinion
Origin
- Mandarin滄州 /沧州
- EnglishCangzhou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 滄州 /沧州 (Cāngzhōu).
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Chinese Cantonese 滄州 /沧州
- 滄州 /沧州 (cong¹ zau¹)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 滄州 /沧州
- 滄州 /沧州 (Cāngzhōu)prefecture-level city
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Cangzhou. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cangzhou
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