Chincheng

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A form of Jincheng — An urban township, the county seat of Kinmen County, Taiwan.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Jincheng (Taiwan)

    A health center at Chincheng, a town on Kinmen, is one of the best equipped throughout Kinmen and Taiwan.

    1961, News Letter, volumes 19-20, 中華民國聯合國同志會, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2
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    For agricultural improvement, a Kinmen Agricultural Experiment Station was inaugurated on September 1, 1951 on 0.8 ha. in Chincheng township, to which 8.4 ha. were added in 1961.[…] Children of the Chincheng, Chinhu and Joint primary schools have also been supplied with milk.[…] Chincheng township. At present, however, there are five power stations, three at Chincheng township, one at Hsinshih, and one at Shamei, with six generators totaling 265 KW.

    1963, The Invincible Island: Ten Years of Reconstruction on Kinmen, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →OCLC, pages 11, 37, 47

    (iv) Improvement of tap water in isolated areas: The Tienpu Reservoir was deepened by 40,000 cubic meters of earth, monitoring wells were dug at Chincheng and Chinning, and two chlorinators and 14 chemical injection machines were added for[…]

    1991, COA General Report, number 7, Council of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 17, column 2

    Chinmen[…]34,540 parcels of land equal to area of 2,212 hectares. It covers Chincheng and Chinning. To clarify and to save time and personnel, we design[…]

    1992, An Outline of Interior Affairs, Republic of China, Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, →OCLC, page 55

    The temple to Colonel Li Kuang-chien lies near Hsiputou village in the northwest of Kinmen Island, around five kilometers from the town of Chincheng and next to the famous Hill 132.[…] Because Kinmen was settled early, it bears many traces of the past. There are 21 listed historical monuments scattered all over the island. The only Grade I monument among them is the "Chiehhsiao Arch," commemorating Chiu Liang-kung's mother, located in East Houpu Street in the center of Chincheng.

    Taiwan Panorama

    1994 April, Yuan-ching Cheng, 光華 [Sinorama], volume 19, numbers 1-6, Government Information Office, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished as “Kinmen- -From Battlefield to Tourist Destination”, in Robert Taylor, transl., 台灣光華雜誌 [Taiwan Panorama], 1994, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022, Around Taiwan

    In recent years, the island of Kinmen has been frequently in the news.[…]But turn another corner and enter Chukuang Street in the town of Chincheng and a completely different picture meets the[…]

    2002, 光華畫報, volume 27, numbers 1-6, →OCLC, page 99

Origin

From Mandarin 金城 (Jīnchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-chʻêng².

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