Meanings
Jiaocheng1
alternative Chiao-ch'eng
- A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
Residents had on January 27 erected the bronze statue of Hua, Mao Zedong’s hand-picked successor who led the party from 1976 to 1981, at a square outside Hua’s cemetery in Jiaocheng county.
2016 February 18, Li Jing, “Save Our Statue: dramatic protest in China to save ex-leader Hua Guofeng’s figure from being demolished”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2016, Policies & Politics4 more examples
In 1972, when the Chiaocheng County Trucking Company in Shansi province over 1,000 kilometers to the north bought five electronic ignition systems from the Fatshan plant, it sent workers and technicians to help the buyers master their use, returning only when they were satisfied.
[1974 February, “China's Young Electronics Industry”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2Chiaocheng County Chiaocheng county lies 60 kilometres southwest of Taiyuan. It is in the prefecture of Luliang, and a goodly part of it is in the Luliang Mountains, with the peak of Yunmeng Mountain dominating. It is well known as the birthplace of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng.[…] Chiaocheng county is one of 190,000 people, 180,000 of whom work on agriculture.
[1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2Fanjiazhuang, Jiaocheng In the summer of 1957, a group of paleoanthropologists on field investigation found a number of paleolithic stone artifacts at Fanjiazhuang Village northwest of Jiaocheng county in Shanxi Province.
1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79Hua was born in 1921 in Chiao-ch’eng County in Shansi Province. Not much else is known of Hua’s childhood or early experiences except that he came from a poor peasant family that, owing to a natural calamity when he was a child, had to flee to northern Shensi.[…]In 1945 Hua became the secretary of the Chinese Communist party’s* Chiao-ch’eng County Committee and was promoted two years later to be secretary of the Yang-ch’ü County Party Committee and political commissar of the local Communist forces.
[1992, “HUA KUO-FENG”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 166, 167
Jiaocheng2
alternative Chiao-ch'eng
- A district of Ningde, Fujian, China.
2009年蕉城区虎贝乡尼姑坪野生大茶树被福建省认定为受保护茶树品种,
茶叶学报
2020, Yang Ru-xing [杨如兴], Chen Zhi-zhi [陈芝芝], Zhang Lei [张磊], Wu Zhi-dan [吴志丹], Yu Wen-quan [余文权], “Investigation on the Ecological Adaptability of Wild Tea Camelliaswith Ex-situ Cultivation in Jiaocheng District [蕉城区野生大茶树迁地种植生态适应性调查初报]”, in ACTA TEA SINICA [茶叶学报], volume 61, number 3, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2026
Origin
Jiaocheng · proper noun
- Mandarin交城
- EnglishJiaocheng
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 交城 (Jiāochéng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Jiaocheng · proper noun
- Mandarin蕉城
- EnglishJiaocheng
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蕉城 (Jiāochéng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 交城, 蕉城
- 交城county
- 蕉城district
Chinese Mandarin 交城, 蕉城
- 交城 (Jiāochéng)county
- 蕉城 (Jiāochéng)district
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