Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Pingdingshan.
Logically, coal should have been imported from the P’ing-ting-shan mine which is far closer to the Wu-han market.
1967, Yuan-li Wu, The Spatial Economy of Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1922 more examples
The shaft project No 7 of the Honan P'ing-ting-shan Colliery designed for an annual production capacity of 900,000 metric tons that went into production in August 1959 is more complex than the shaft No 3 of the Huai-nan Hsieh-chia-chi Colliery that went into production during the First Five Year Plan;[...]
1959 November 27 [1959 September 9], “CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE COAL INDUSTRY”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Documents Division, Central Intelligence Agency, →OCLC, page 11At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.
1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333
Origin
- Mandarin平頂山 /平顶山
- EnglishP'ing-ting-shan
From Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山 (píngdǐngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-ting³-shan¹.
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