Meanings
Yuzhong1
- A district of Chongqing, China.
People young and old enjoy an afternoon on the banks of the Jialing River, facing the central Yuzhong district of Chongqing.
2012 December 24, Matt McCann, “In Western China, Steep Highs and Steep Lows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023, Photography, Video and Visual Journalism4 more examples
Cruises to the Three Gorges are board at the Chaotianmen Dock in Yuzhong District (6310 0659), tickets require advanced booking.
2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401The shopping area of Jiefangbei (“Monument of Liberation") in the Yuzhong District includes a wide variety of stores, recreation centers, hotels, and other facilities.
2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93The central peninsula area of Yuzhong District, between the Jialing River to the north and the Yangtze River to the south, is the most interesting and dynamic area of Chongqing.
2015, Fodor's China (Fodor's), 9th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 567Observing the results from the Route 3 implementation, one Yuzhong District senior government official believed that a similar project should be done to revitalize the heart of the central business district area, called Jiefangbei.
2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from the Profession, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182 - A peninsula in Yuzhong district, Chongqing, China.
Once you’ve been to Chongqing, it is hard to think of the city and not at the same time picture the beautiful mountains, and the majestic Yangtze River circumfloating the densely built Yuzhong Peninsula, only to absorb the waters of Jialing River just moments later.
2010, “Bigger Footprints”, in Asia Beyond Growth, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76, column 12 more examples
The city’s meteoric growth has left it with several million residents in the Yuzhong peninsula alone, and over 30 million in the municipal area! This gargantuan population and the city’s strategic importance led to Chongqing’s separation from its parent province, Szechuan, in 1997, and it was designated as a “specially administered municipality,” controlled directly by the central government.
2008, Simon Foster, “The Three Gorges”, in Adventure Guide: China (Hunter Travel Guides), Hunter Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263The Yuzhong Peninsula, with a population of about 700,000 residents, has served as the business and historic center of the city (see Figure 1). Due to its mountainous landscape, walking has long been a necessary and popular mode of transportation within the center city.
2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from the Profession, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 176
Yuzhong2
- A county of Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
In the Shanzhuang district of Yuzhong County in Gansu, the annual average per capita grain intake was only 20-50 kilograms, and of the 49 production teams in the whole district, 48 had an average per capita income of less than 40 yuan.
1991, Bochuan He, “Questions of Pace and Regional Development”, in China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development, China Books and Periodicals, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1483 more examples
In May 1939 China’s Nationalist government, worried about the use Japan might make of the remains, ordered the most holy objects — the caskets of Chinggis, and Borte and of Qulan and the black four-footed standard — transported to a Taoist temple in Yuzhong county, Gansu.
2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Eight White Yurts”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164, column 2A directive from Yuzhong County in the northwestern province of Gansu declared, for example: “Since the abrupt changes in Tunisia and Egypt, Western forces hostile to China have been itching to do something and do their utmost to stir up a fuss.”
2011 April 8, Chris Buckley, Sui-Lee Wee, “Fear and swagger drive China's clampdown on dissent”, in John Chalmers, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022, World NewsThe official Weibo account of the Yuzhong Public Security Bureau in Lanzhou said that two police officers at the local Peace Police Station had “stopped working” and that the events were being investigated by the police and by other branches of government.
2016 May 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Accusations of Brutality Cast Harsh Light on Chinese Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2016, Asia Pacific
Origin
Yuzhong · proper noun
- Mandarin渝中
- EnglishYuzhong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 渝中 (Yúzhōng, literally “central Chongqing”).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Yuzhong · proper noun
- Mandarin榆中
- EnglishYuzhong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榆中 (Yúzhōng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 渝中, 榆中
- 渝中 (Yúzhōng)district; peninsula
- 榆中 (Yúzhōng)county
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