Meanings
Yongning1
- A county of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
The next day we went to visit a village named Najiahu in Yongning County, which is located to the south of Yinchuan. The inhabitants here are nearly all Muslims.
1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, edited by Tu Nai Hsien, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82, column 22 more examples
Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).
1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119China’s agriculture ministry on Sunday reported a new African swine fever outbreak in the northwestern region of Ningxia. The outbreak occurred on a farm with 57 live pigs in Yongning county, infecting pigs and killing 13, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.
2019 January 20, Philip Wen, “China reports African swine fever outbreak in Ningxia region”, in John Stonestreet, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2019, Health News
Yongning2
- A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China, formerly a county.
In Yungning County, last winter the commercial departments worked out plans for material supplies to support agriculture this spring.
[1971 March 19 [1971 March 16], “Kwangsi Commercial Workers Support Spring Farming”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 54, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 23 more examples
The discovery had been made in 1960 in the Kwangsi Province of South West China; the plants were growing under forest in a valley in the Yungning County, at an altitude of 75-120 metres. The position is approximately Latitude 20 Degrees North and Longitude 108 Degrees East. This places it close to the Vietnam Border, within the Tropics, and without enough altitude to effect much climate modification.
[1984, Tom Durrant, “The Yellow Camellias”, in Milton H. Brown, editor, The American Camellia Yearbook 1984, Fort Valley, Georgia: American Camellia Society, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130Besides the singing contest described above, there are some other unique activities associated with the songfest. One of these is called “returning the ball” songfest, which is popular in Guangxi’s Yongning County.
中国少数民族风情录
1993, “Central South and Southeast Regions”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, In Search of China's Minorities [中国少数民族风情录], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 285Following the success of the Dalu village pilot project the Yongning county party committee and government in Guangxi province decided to introduce eco-toilets in a comprehensive village environmental improvement programme.
2004, “Eco-san Examples”, in Ecological Sanitation, 2nd edition, Stockholm Environment Institute, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26
Origin
Yongning · proper noun
- Mandarin永寧 /永宁
- EnglishYongning
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永寧 /永宁 (Yǒngníng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Yongning · proper noun
- Mandarin邕寧 /邕宁
- EnglishYongning
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邕寧 /邕宁 (Yōngníng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 永寧 /永宁, 邕寧 /邕宁
- 永寧 /永宁 (Yǒngníng)county
- 邕寧 /邕宁 (Yōngníng)district
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