Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Qiqiha'er (Qiqihar)
From Daqing we took the train to the far north of China at Qiqihaer, described to me as a relatively small Chinese city of about six million people!
2013, Robert W. Cox, “The Emergence of China”, in Universal Foreigner: The Individual and the World, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2844 more examples
Farther west, the city of Qiqihaer—one of the oldest Chinese settlements in Manchuria—produces locomotives and rolling stock, heavy machine tools, mining and metallurgical equipment, and some steel.
1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, Encyclopedia of China Today, Eurasia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.
1988, Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219Thousands of workers from the Tonghua Iron and Steel Group in Jilin province, Qiqihaer in Heilongjiang, Kaiping in Heibei, and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, demonstrated over unpaid wages, in protests that took place between the end of February and the middle of March
2016 March 30, Mimi Lau, “The school of hard rocks: how protests by China’s miners shine a light on an industry in decline”, in South China Morning PostIn this study, a framework that combines ecological sensitivity and ecological risk as the end point of EV assessment was established, and was used to investigate the spatiotemporal characteristics and major environmental issues of EV in Qiqihaer City, northwest of the Songnen Plain
2021, Yijia Yanga, Ge Song, “Human disturbance changes based on spatiotemporal heterogeneity of regional ecological vulnerability: A case study of Qiqihaer city, northwestern Songnen Plain, China”, in Journal of Cleaner Production, volume 291, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of 齊齊哈爾/齐齐哈尔 (Qíqíhā'ěr), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號/隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
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