Meanings
- A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
In Shenqiu county, citizens fought the flood by building a dike. But the hastily constructed structure could not contain the floodwater, which overflowed the banks every year, forcing local residents to make annual repairs.
1994, “War and Rural Mobilization: The Rivereast Floodplain”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2203 more examples
The proper relationship between the Revolutionary Committees and party committees was outlined by Honan radio on 13 January 1970 on the experience of the party branch committee of the Shen-ch’iu County post office. According to the report, several leaders had initially “failed to treat the relationship between the party branch and the Revolutionary Committee correctly, so that the party branch was unable to play its proper role as the core."
[1971, “China”, in Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1971, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 558In the Symposium on the Work of Social Relief in Nineteen Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions held in Shenchiu County, Honan Province, in November 1983, it was said that the work of supporting the poor had been developed by over 31,000 people's communes in 1,814 counties in mainland China.
[1986, Yu-ming Shaw, editor, Mainland China: Politics, Economics, and Reform, Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489Mr. Wang, whose roost was a rural county called Shenqiu in Henan Province in central China, is now under arrest, but other local tycoons are thriving outside the law. Central Authorities Alarmed Shenqiu County is closed to foreigners, and the authorities rejected a reporter's request to visit there. But the central authorities are clearly alarmed that local officials repeatedly defied outside investigators, and some fear that the Shenqiu affair represents decentralization gone berserk.
1993 May 16, Sheryl WuDunn, “China Is Trying to Curb 'Warlord' Businessman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, World
Origin
- Mandarin沈邱 /沈丘
- EnglishShenqiu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沈邱 /沈丘.
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 沈丘
- 沈丘county
Chinese Mandarin 沈丘
- 沈丘county
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