Meanings
- A Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.
2018 June 4, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2023, Environment2 more examples
The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s Longshan county.
1982 February, Huanran Wen, He Yeheng, “China's Forests—Past and Present”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66The education commission of Shizhu county in Chongqing said the beating was inflicted by the founder of an illegal centre called Liuliu, which the commission last year ordered to close down because it did not have a permit to operate, online news outlet ThePaper.cn reported on Thursday.
2019 August 16, Ann Cao, “Online fury after tutor beats child in class in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2019, Society
Origin
- Mandarin石柱
- EnglishShizhu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石柱 (Shízhù).
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Chinese Cantonese 石柱
- 石柱Tujia autonomous county
Chinese Mandarin 石柱
- 石柱 (Shízhù)Tujia autonomous county
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Shizhu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shizhu
“Shizhu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shizhu. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shizhu,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shizhu.
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