Luta

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A form of Lüda — A former directly-administered municipality in China, from 1950 to 1954; a former prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China, from 1954 to 1981; modern Dalian.

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proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Lüda.

    It had been originally expected that the Cambodian delegation, headed by Mr. Khieu Samphan, would meet with Prince Sihanouk in Luta, the remote North China port where the group went yesterday. Luta, formerly Dairen, is a diplomatic halfway point between Peking and Pyongyang.

    1975 August 19 [1975 August 18], “China and Cambodia Sign Pact for Economic and Technical Cooperation”, in The New York Times, sourced from Hong Kong, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2024, page 6
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    Responsibility for the serious violation of financial and economic discipline in Luta Municipality falls mainly on Liu Te-tsai and Hsuan Shih-ming. Singing in chorus with the gang of four and their sworn follower in Liaoning, they vigorously preached the fallacies "what is needed is what should be planned" and "what is reasonable is what is legal," instigated people to oppose the central authorities and comprehensively pushed the ultraright counterrevolutionary revisionist line of the gang of four.

    1978 April 6 [1978 April 5], “State Council-Military Decision Punishes Luta Officials”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 67, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 3

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