Shantou

alternative Shan-t'ou · alternative Shant'ou

1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

   A fire at a lingerie factory killed 14 people in Shantou, a city in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong, on Tuesday, official news media said.

   2012 December 4, Keith Bradsher, “Chinese Garment Factory Fire Kills 14 in Guangdong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2012, Asia Pacific

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   A typical example was that of Shantou Special District in Kwangtung where in “full implementation” of party policies all the cadres from the brigades had been sent to the “front line of production” to lead the masses in spring planting and a total labour force of 2.42 million for the whole district, representing 81 per cent of its rural labour force, was mobilized for the purpose.

   1967, Gargi Dutt, Rural Communes in China, Organizational Problems, New York: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 111–112

   Shantou, which is more than 800 km (500 miles) from Wuhan city in central China, had also said earlier it would suspend the operation of buses, taxis and ferries from 2 p.m. on Sunday.

   2020 January 26, Yilei Sun, Samuel Shen, Tony Munroe, “China's Shantou city will not ban cars, ships, people from entering, state media reports”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022, World News

   Synonyms: Swatow