Meanings
- A town in Hunchun, Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, formerly a township and before that a people's commune.
More speculative plans are afoot for a world-class Tumen River Airport at Jingxin on China's border with Russia which lies on the polar route between Europe and Japan.
1995, Peter J. Rimmer, “Integrating China into East Asia: Cross-border Regions and Infrastructure Networks”, in Stuart Harris, Garry Klintworth, editors, China as a Great Power, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3193 more examples
People in multi-national Hunchun County in Northeast China's Yenpien Korean Autonomous Chou (Kirin Province) have made rapid progress in the revolution and production by closing their ranks under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party's policy towards nationalities.[…] Chin Cheng-ho, a veteran cadre of Korean nationality, is secretary of the Chinghsin commune party committee. During the Cultural Revolution, he has led the whole commune to learn from Tachai, national pace-setter in agriculture.
[1972 July 27 [1972 July 27], “All Nationalities Help Each Other in Kirin Chou”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 146, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 3Uncoordinated expansion by competitive riparian countries would have caused waste or misallocation of scarce capital through overlapping projects, For example, the DPRK is trying to build Sonbong Airport, while China and Russia are holding out for their own international airports, in Jingxin and Khraskino.
2002, Jaeho Hwang, “Economic and Institutional Constraints on the TRADP”, in The Significance of Regionalism as an Element of China's Security and Foreign Policy: The Case of the Tumen River Area Development Project (TRADP) (Thesis), London School of Economics and Political Science, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2020, page 259For more than a decade, Chinese villagers in the Jingxin village on the Sino-DPRK border became used to hearing the noises of shooting and finding the floating corpses of North Korean escapees in the Tumen River.
2019, Bo Gao, China's Economic Engagement in North Korea (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94
Origin
- Mandarin敬信
- EnglishJingxin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 敬信 (Jìngxìn).
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Chinese Mandarin 敬信
- 敬信 (Jìngxìn)town in northeast China
Korean 경신
- 경신 (gyeongsin)town in northeast China
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Jingxin
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Jingxin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jingxin
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