Jiaokou

Jiao·kou
J8I1A1O1K5O1U1

proper noun

A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

    Red mud is also what prompted the Chinese authorities to order the closure of Xinfa Group’s Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi.

    2019 May 16, Andy Home, “Chinese outages a reminder of aluminum's dirty secret: Andy Home”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 16 May 2019
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    Jiaokou County adopted a new process for refining sulfur, which raised the sulfur recovery rate from 40% to 80%, and the waste gas discharge met the State set standards.

    中国的乡镇企业

    2006, “Technical Progress of TVEs”, in He Kang [何康], editor, China's Township and Village Enterprises [中国的乡镇企业], 1st edition, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 233–234

    An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.

    2009, Zhang Yulin, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165

    The company planned to export the bauxite to its alumina refinery in Jiaokou, Shanxi Province, China (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2011g).

    2011, Minerals Yearbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10.4

    In the 2000s, in Jiaokou County (Shanxi) a local mine owner provided the village with a new primary school building, and paid the salaries of local teachers and indeed of the village cadres (Nandu zhoukan 2009c).

    2012, Tim Wright, “The rural coal mines and their owners: social costs and benefits”, in The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108

    In April 2015, authorities in Huilong village, Jiaokou county, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, detained more than 10 people who had joined a multi-day protest of several hundred people demonstrating against pollution linked to an aluminum plant.

    2015, “Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2015”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, →ISBN, page 216

Origin

  1. Mandarin交口
  2. EnglishJiaokou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 交口 (Jiāokǒu).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 交口
  • 交口 (gaau¹ hau²)county
Chinese Mandarin 交口
  • 交口 (Jiāokǒu)county
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