Huaning

Hua·ning
H4U1A1N1I1N1G2

proper noun

A county of Yuxi, Yunnan, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Yuxi, Yunnan, China.

    The Huaning County revolutionary committee was set up on 23 April with (Liu Sheng-cheng) as chairman.

    1968 May 9 [1968 May 4], “Yunnan Committees”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 92, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Kunming Yunnan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Southwest Region, page E 3
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    Pu was born in 1929 in Huaning County, Yunnan Province. After graduation from senior high school in 1948, he joined the CCP and was sent to rural areas to engage in underground work.

    普朝柱

    1987, Wolfgang Bartke, “Pu Chaozhu [普朝柱]”, in Who's Who in the People's Republic of China, 2nd edition, K. G. Saur, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 364, column 1

    More than 6,500 Adu people live in central Yunnan Province in southwest China. Approximately 3,500 live in Huaning County within Yuxi Prefecture. Their village names in Huaning are Songzichang, Xinzhai, Keju, and Chengmentong.

    2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25

    According to a study conducted by Lofstedt, Shusheng, and Johansson (2004), in China high gender ratios of males at birth are due to abortion practices. Between 1984 and 1987 rates of abortions for female fetuses in Huaning County, Yunnan Province, in China increased, creating a ratio of 107 males to 100 females, while between the period from 1988-2000 the ratio rose again to 110 males to 100 females.

    2006, Carol Holtz, Suzanne Grisdale, “Global Health in Reproduction and Infants”, in Global Health Care: Issues and Policies, Jones and Bartlett, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 449–450

    The quake damaged over 6,000 homes and affected more than 48,000 residents in Tonghai and Huaning counties and in the district of Jiangchuan, all administered by the city of Yuxi, the provincial civil affairs department said in a statement.

    2018 August 14, “Earthquake in China: Magnitude-5 jolt hits Yunnan Province, 18 injured”, in The Financial Express, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2018, World News

Origin

  1. Mandarin華寧 /华宁
  2. EnglishHuaning

From Mandarin 華寧 /华宁.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 華寧 /华宁
  • 華寧 /华宁county
Chinese Mandarin 華寧 /华宁
  • 華寧 /华宁 (Huáníng)county
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