Pingliang

Ping·liang
P3I1N1G2L1I1A1N1G2

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.

    P’ing-liang, the leading city of northeastern Kansu fell to the Moslems on September 24, 1863.

    朱文長

    [1966, Wen-djang Chu [朱文長], “The Developments in Kansu”, in Karl Jahn, John R. Krueger, editors, The Moslem Rebellion in Northwest China 1862-1878: A Study of Government Minority Policy (Central Asian Studies), number V, The Hague; Paris: Mouton & Co., →OCLC, page 66
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    Party organizations and revolutionary committees at all levels in Pingliang region, Kansu Province, have actively promoted the patriotic health movement with remarkable results. More than 400 medical personnel and 10,000 barefoot doctors and health workers have taken part in the movement.

    1972 February 17 [1972 January 22], “Kansu Region Health Movement”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 34, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow Kansu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 8

    Three children have died and 35 people have become ill from drinking nitrite-tainted milk in Gansu Province in northwestern China, the Xinhua news agency reported Friday. In the latest food safety scandal to hit the dairy industry, most of the sick children were being treated at two hospitals in Pingliang city, Xinhua said.

    2011 April 8, Reuters, “China: Tainted Milk Kills 3 Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2011, Asia Pacific

    A man in China's Gansu province has been detained for allegedly using ChatGPT to generate a fake story about a train crash, marking China's first arrest in an AI-related probe as Beijing tightens deepfake technology. The story, which claimed the crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China's northwestern Gansu, gained more than 15,000 clicks after being published on social media on April 25, Pingliang city's local police bureau reported.

    2023 May 10, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “China reports first arrest over fake news generated by ChatGPT”, in Christina Fincher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 May 2023, Disrupted

Origin

  1. Mandarin平涼 /平凉
  2. EnglishPingliang

From Mandarin 平涼 /平凉 (Píngliáng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 平涼 /平凉
  • 平涼 /平凉 (ping⁴ loeng⁴)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 平涼 /平凉
  • 平涼 /平凉 (Píngliáng)prefecture-level city
Japanese 平涼
  • 平涼 (Heiryō)prefecture-level city

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