Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yongchuan.
I was born in a poor peasant family in Yungchuan County, Szechuan Province. For generations my family worked as farmhands for a landlord.
工农兵批林批孔文选
1976, Chen Chao, “TO SHOW "BENEVOLENCE" TO THE ENEMY IS TO BETRAY THE PEOPLE”, in Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Criticize Lin Piao and Confucius [工农兵批林批孔文选], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 932 more examples
On 22 August, 20,000 armymen and people of Chiangchin Prefecture and Yungchuan County held a celebration rally at which (Wang Hai-ting), first secretary of Yungchuan County CCP Committee, presided and (An Fa-hsiao), first secretary of Chiangchin Prefectural CCP Committee, and (Juan Kuang-chao), commissar of Chiangchin Military Subdistrict, made speeches.
1977 August 25 [1977 August 24], “Szechwan Rallies Hail 11th Congress, CCP Plenum”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 4Fan Yuan-yen came from Sungchi township of Yungchuan county in Szechuan. Yungchuan was a prosperous commercial and agricultural city on the north bank of the Yangtse River, a hundred kilometers southwest of Chungking.
1978, Yuan-yen Fan, Testimony for 800 Million Suffering People, →OCLC, page 35, column 1
Origin
- Mandarin永川
- EnglishYungchuan
From Mandarin 永川 (Yǒngchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-chʻuan¹.
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