Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jiuquan.
After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.
1973, Rewi Alley, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 22 more examples
There is considerable evidence that China is pushing its nuclear program in this area. Much of what goes on here, particularly around a wind-swept old oasis town named Chiuchuan (Liquor Springs), is known only to a few select planners — and perhaps to the distant American and Chinese specialists who evaluate the contents of monitoring devices borne by American-built U-2s flown from Taiwan.
1963, Loren Fessler, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (Life World Library), New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2Leading members at all levels in the Chiuchuan area [tichu], Kansu, have achieved remarkable results in promoting the vigorous development of local industry by strengthening over-all planning and mobilizing the masses.
1971 March 4 [1971 February 27], “Kansu Area Vigorously Develops Local Industry”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 43, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 2
Origin
- Mandarin酒泉
- EnglishChiuchuan
From Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiu³-chʻüan².
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