Meanings
alternative Hwangshih · alternative Huang-shih
- A prefecture-level city of Hubei, China.
Wuhan Radio reported that party, political and financial power had been seized in the Hupei city of Huangshih, a power center, on Jan. 13.
[1967 February 10, “New Year Looks On A Torn China”, in The Sedalia Democrat, volume 99, number 30, Sedalia, Missouri, sourced from TOKYO (AP), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 13 more examples
Supported by the rich supply of iron ore and coal from the neighboring towns of Tayeh and Huangshih, a major industrial complex had grown up by the 1930's.
[1969, John Gardner, “Urban Bureaucratic Elite in Communist China”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 221Raised in Huangshi, a small town in Hubei Province, Cheng Fei (pronounced chung fay) entered China's state-run sports system as a 7-year-old.
2008 August 7, Melissa Hoppert, “Athlete Bio: Cheng Fei”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2023, SportsHubei Xinyegang Steel (Xinyegang), a subsidiary of one of China's largest specialty steel makers, CITIC Pacific, officially launched two new specialty seamless pipe plants on 11 December 2009. This boosts Xinyegang's seamless pipe capacity to 1.1m tonnes/year. Located in Huangshi city in central China's Hubei province, the two new plants are one 460mm medium- and thick-walled Assel mill with a design capacity of 300,000 t/y and one 273mm Assel mill with a design capacity of 230,000 t/y.
2011, OECD, Developments in Steelmaking Capacity of Non-OECD Economies 2010, OECD Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 180
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin for 黃石/黄石 (Huángshí).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 黃石 /黄石
- 黃石 /黄石 (wong⁴ sek⁶)prefecture-level city in central China
Chinese Mandarin 黃石 /黄石
- 黃石 /黄石 (Huángshí)prefecture-level city in central China
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