Wulong

Wu·long
W4U1L1O1N1G2

proper noun

A district of Chongqing, China, formerly a county.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Chongqing, China, formerly a county.

    (Hungyang) reservoir in Wulung County has now been completed. The reservoir can irrigate 1 million mou of land.

    [1969 April 11 [1969 April 10], “Szechwan Water Conservancy Project”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 70, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Southwest Region, page E 7
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    SUMMARY OF A FARM BUSINESS STUDY IN WU LUNG, SZECHWAN 1943-44 A farm business study was made in Wulung County, Eastern Szechwan Province for the year 1913-44 . Wulung, a mountainous county, is located on the right bank of the[...]

    [1940s, Economic Facts, numbers 16-51, Nan-ching shih University, →OCLC, page 715

    A landslide at a southwestern Chinese iron ore mine has buried at least 59 people, state media said on Friday. Rescuers were on their way to the disaster site in Wulong county in Chongqing municipality, the official Xinhua news agency said.

    2009 June 5, Ben Blanchard, “Landslide buries at least 59 in southwest China”, in Bill Tarrant, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022, Asia Crisis

    In another case, the CYD disclosed a brazen case of law violation. In November 1997, when a female college graduate went to the Center of Exchange of Talent (rencai jiaoliu zhongxin) in Wulong county government, Chongqing, for a job interview, the head of the center, Luo Yongsheng, lured the student and raped her.

    2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42

Origin

  1. Mandarin武隆
  2. EnglishWulong

From the Mandarin 武隆 (Wǔlóng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 武隆
  • 武隆district
Chinese Mandarin 武隆
  • 武隆 (Wǔlóng)district
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