Meanings
- A district of Anshun, Guizhou, China, formerly a county.
Leading members of the Fenghuang commune revolutionary committee and brigade cadres of Pingpa County in Kweichow Province, Southwest China, led the people in helping solve difficulties in the daily life of such families.
[1972 February 16 [1972 February 16], “Nationwide 'Support-Army' Fetes Hail Spring Festival”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 33, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page B 21 more example
A substantial minority of party members in the brigade were probably recruited during the Cultural Revolution; in Guizhou’s Pingba County, for example, 40.9 percent of the county’s 1,522 party branch members were recruited from 1966 to 1976.
1988, John P. Burns, “The Organizational Context of Political Participation in Rural China”, in Political Participation in Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49
Origin
- Mandarin平壩 /平坝
- EnglishPingba
From Mandarin 平壩 /平坝 (Píngbà).
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Chinese Mandarin 平壩 /平坝
- 平壩 /平坝 (Píngbà)district
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