Meanings
- In China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the state enterprise that runs the bingtuan, the vast farms set up in the 1950s and afterward by the People’s Liberation Army to help populate the frontier region, reported a drop in the number of migrants going to Xinjiang after the July riots.
2009 August 22, Edward Wong, “Workers Return to Restive China Region”, in New York Times
Origin
- Mandarin兵团“army unit, army formation”
- Englishbingtuan
From Mandarin 兵团 (bīngtuán, “army unit, army formation”).
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