Meanings
Gucheng1
Gucheng2
alternative Ku-ch'eng · alternative Kucheng · alternative Ku-ch'êng
- A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
The Party Secretary and the Mayor of Gucheng County, Hubei Province were removed from their positions for using public funds to buy expensive cars within their administrative jurisdictions.
2014, Qingli Meng, “Findings: The Three Stages of Corruption in China”, in Corruption in Transitional China: A 33-Year Study, Wolf Legal Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1312 more examples
Here we may cite the example of the Tungsheng Agricultural Producers’ Co-operative in Kucheng County, Hupeh Province. Nine crops, mostly vegetables, were planted in 1954 on each of the twenty-eight mou singled out. The per-mou yield was 20,000 catties for vegetables and 500 for maize, a yield that could only be obtained from as many as eleven “1,000-catty” mou.
中国农业合作化的道路
[1959 September, Tung Ta-lin [董大林], “Co-operation Preceding Mechanization”, in Agricultural Co-operation in China [中国农业合作化的道路] (China Knowledge Series), 2nd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 45The industrialization of tea production in Wushan Town of Gucheng County, Xiangfan City, provides another example of the benefits generated by improved rural roads. The dispersed tea-growing fields in the area are now linked by modern roads, allowing the formation of an integrated tea growing base of 1,700 hectares.
2007 December, Huanzhi Liu, “New Roads to Prosperity in Central China”, in China Today, volume 56, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78
Origin
Gucheng · proper noun
- Mandarin古城
- EnglishGucheng
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古城 (Gǔchéng).
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- Mandarin穀城 /谷城
- EnglishGucheng
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 穀城 /谷城 (Gǔchéng).
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Chinese Cantonese 古城, 穀城 /谷城
- 古城district
- 穀城 /谷城county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 古城, 穀城 /谷城
- 古城 (Gǔchéng)district
- 穀城 /谷城 (Gǔchéng)county in central China
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