Meanings
- Synonym of Benxi.
An-shan leads all other cities in China in steel production; Pen-ch'i is another important steel producer.
1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1822 more examples
Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284Small-scale Chinese-owned factories were in evidence, but the principal modern industries were a network of Japanese-controlled producers' goods enterprises intended to furnish raw and semifinished materials to the Japanese economy. The Anshan and Pen-ch'i ironworks and the Fushun coal mines, large vertically integrated installations, were the most prominent among these units.
1977, Albert Feuerwerker, Economic Trends in the Republic of China, 1912-1949, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23Synonyms: Benxi
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Benxi.
Origin
- Mandarin本溪
- EnglishPen-ch'i
From Mandarin 本溪 (Běnqī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pên³-chʻi¹.
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