Xingguo

alternative Hsing-kuo

1. A county of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.

   There are very few geomancers in Xunwu County; most of them are from Xingguo.

   1990, Mao Zedong, translated by Roger Thompson, Report from Xunwu, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210

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   HSINGKUO county in the hilly region of southern Kiangsi province was one of China’s earliest revolutionary bases.[…] Surrounded by mountains and crossed by the Lienchiang River, Hsingkuo county lies in a beautiful natural setting.

   1972 March, Chi Hung, “An Old Revolutionary Base—Yesterday and Today”, in China Reconstructs, volume 21, number 3, Peking, →OCLC, pages 24–25

   Chen Yi cursed as he had a hundred times since he had been carried from the front in Xingguo county six weeks ago with a bullet wound in his hip which refused to heal.

   1985, Harrison E. Salisbury, “A Walk by Moonlight”, in The Long March, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5

   The 800-metre (2,600-foot) experimental Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo county, Jiangxi province, used powerful magnets rich in rare earth elements to produce a constantly repelling force strong enough to lift a train with 88 passengers in the air, according to a report by state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday.

   2022 August 10, Stephen Chen, “Chinese scientists say maglev ‘sky train’ floats without power using permanent magnets”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2022, Science