Meanings
alternative Li-ch'üan
- A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
In the first half of this year Lichuan County built five small factories, including a cement works.
[1970 July 23 [1970 July 10], “Shensi Coal Output”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 142, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 42 more examples
The account centers around Wang Pao-ching, a technical activist in Lichuan county, Shensi province. As early as 1952, Wang proposed that greatly increased maize yields could be realized with the introduction of scientific farming.
[1974, Richard P. Suttmeier, “Technological Mobilization: Science, Technology, and the Chinese Masses”, in Research and Revolution: Science Policy and Societal Change in China, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132Interested parties can also go to the Fenghuo People's Commune of Liquan County although it is over 40 miles (60 km) from Xi'an in the direction of the Qian Ling.
1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 87
Origin
- Mandarin禮泉 /礼泉
- EnglishLiquan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禮泉 /礼泉.
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Chinese Cantonese 禮泉 /礼泉
- 禮泉 /礼泉county
Chinese Mandarin 禮泉 /礼泉
- 禮泉 /礼泉county
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Liquan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Liquan
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