Meanings
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
Chienyang County, Shensi, has since last winter completed more than 50 water conservancy projects, including 14 reservoirs, increasing its irrigated area by over 65,000 mou.
[1971 August 20 [1971 August 14], “Shensi Water Conservancy”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 162, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 42 more examples
Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.
大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗
[1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.
Ancient China's Technology and Science
1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 58–59
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 千陽 /千阳, 汧陽 /汧阳
- 千陽 /千阳 (Qiānyáng)county
- 汧陽 /汧阳county
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