Kaicheng

Kai·cheng
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proper noun

Synonym of Kaesong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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proper noun
  1. Synonym of Kaesong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
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    In the summer of 1952, I was given a new job. On July 11th, the Army committee ordered me to serve as the 2nd Vice Commander of the Volunteer Army. At the time, Commander in Chief Peng was not in Korea, and 1st Vice Commander Deng Hua and Chief of Staff Jie Fang were concentrating their energies on the negotiations in Kaicheng.

    Weile Heping

    1989 April 4 [1987 August], “Seonyeo Dong, Huechang Li, and Mokdan Bong”, in Leo Kanner Associates, transl., For Peace [Weile Heping], Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, translation of original by Yang Dezhi (in Chinese), →OCLC, pages 150–151

    In September, 2002, Xinyizhou was designated by the North Korean government as a special administrative region. In November of the same year, the standing committee of the Supreme People’s Congress passed “Kaicheng Industrial Region Act” and “Jingangshan Tourist Region Act”, designating the city of Kaicheng as a special industrial development area, and the region of Jingangshan as a special tourist area.

    c. 2006, Zhao Huiji, ““July 1 Measures”: the Economic Survival Strategy”, in The Structural Crises and the Survival Strategies of North Korea, The National Bureau of Asian Research, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020, pages 12–13

    Early in 1953 he was sent to the war front to learn from the soldiers and peasants. He spent several months with various companies of the Thirty-ninth Army, two weeks at command headquarters interviewing officers, and several days with a Korean family in Kaicheng. Out of these experiences came another play, which was eventually lost by the China Youth Arts Theater and never produced or published; some short stories and essays; and an unfinished novel, Zhanzheng, weile heping (War, for Peace), which was not published until the 1980s— first in serialized form and in 1985 as a book.

    2007, Kirk A. Denton, “Lu Ling”, in Thomas Moran, editor, Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 (Dictionary of Literary Biography), number 328, Thomson Gale, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125, column 1

    Synonyms: Kaesong

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounSynonym of Kaesong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin開城 /开城
  2. EnglishKaicheng

From Mandarin 開城 /开城 (Kāichéng).

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