Meanings
Wuzhong1
alternative Wuchung
- A district of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
In the morning of December 24, 2020, Ben, Zhiqin, deputy head of Wuzhong District and head of the Science and Technology Mayor Group, led the 13th group of Wuzhong District Science and Technology Mayor Group members to carry out industry-university-research cooperation in our school.
2020 December 26, “Wuzhong District of Suzhou City - South China University of Technology Industry-University-Research Cooperation and Exchange Meeting was successfully held in our School”, in South China Normal University, archived from the original on 29 Sep 20251 more example
Global R&D and Commercialization Base, with a first-phase building area of nearly 30,000 square meters, is located in Wuzhong, Suzhou, and is expected to be completed and put into operation in mid-2024 as an integrated base with comprehensive functions, including manufacturing, R&D and office.
2022 October 20, ImmVira, “ImmVira announced to launch the construction of Global R&D and Commercialization Base”, in AP News; PR Newswire, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2023
Wuzhong2
alternative Wuchung
- A prefecture-level city of the Ningxia autonomous region, China.
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The river, which is some 3,028 miles long and has a catchment basin of 250,000 sq. miles, rises in the Bayan Kara Shan (15,000 ft) of north-east Tibet and flows as a mountain torrent above Lanchow. Between Lanchow and Wuchung in Ningsia it descends on to the Inner Mongolian plateau and is less torrential although still of considerable strength. At Wuchung it starts on its northward course, known as the Great Bend, across the Ordos Desert.
[1970, T. R. Tregear, An Economic Geography of China, Butterworths, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.
[1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16I was amused when one of my Hui colleagues who was present at an interview corrected a wheat farmer and sideline rope maker in Wuzhong, central Ningxia: "No you are not a 'Hui religion disciple' (Huijiao tu)" he reprimanded, "you are a 'Hui person' (Huimin). Hui believe in Islam (Yisilanjiao), not their own Hui religion."
1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97“The Hui used to live in separate neighborhoods, but these days, non-Muslims are moving to Muslim quarters because they are drawn to our clean food and our system of ethics,” said Ma Youming, 35, the production manager of a hat factory in Wuzhong that exports religious headwear to Indonesia, Malaysia and other Muslim countries.[…] In places like Wuzhong and Linxia, officials have created special “Muslim products” industrial parks that offer inexpensive land and low taxes. Mr. Ma’s company, Yijia Ethnic Clothing, is among those that have benefited from favorable government policies.
2016 February 1, Andrew Jacobs, “Light Government Touch Lets China’s Hui Practice Islam in the Open”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016, Asia PacificChinese President Xi Jinping has sought to reassure ethnic minorities that they are part of Beijing’s “common prosperity” programme during a visit to one of the country’s poorest regions. Xi made the remarks on Monday in Wuzhong, in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region – home to the Hui Muslim ethnic minority in the country’s northwest, according to state media reports on Wednesday.
2020 June 11, William Zheng, “Chinese President Xi Jinping tries to reassure ethnic minorities they won’t be ‘left behind’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2020
Origin
Wuzhong · proper noun
- Mandarin吳中 /吴中
- EnglishWuzhong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳中 /吴中 (Wúzhōng).
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Full word history & related roots →Wuzhong · proper noun
- Mandarin吳忠 /吴忠
- EnglishWuzhong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳忠 /吴忠 (Wúzhōng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 吳中 /吴中, 吳忠 /吴忠
- 吳中 /吴中 (ng⁴ zung¹)district
- 吳忠 /吴忠 (ng⁴ zung¹)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 吳中 /吴中, 吳忠 /吴忠
- 吳中 /吴中 (Wúzhōng)district
- 吳忠 /吴忠 (Wúzhōng)prefecture-level city
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