Xinyizhou

Xin·yi·zhou
X8I1N1Y4I1Z10H4O1U1

proper noun

Synonym of Sinuiju: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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proper noun
  1. Synonym of Sinuiju: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

    May 1 Japanese army (which had landed in Korea in March), attacks and defeats Russian army at Xinyizhou.

    1995, Philip Waller, John Rowell, “Chronology”, in Chronology of the 20th Century, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1
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    An-tung is the provincial capital and has a population of 250,000. It is situated on the north bank of the Yalu River. A railway bridge crosses the river at this point to Hsin-i-chou on the Korean side.

    東北日報

    [1954 March 26 [1951 March], “Liaotung Province”, in Lin P'eng [林朋], editor, An Introduction to the New Northeast and Inner Mongolia [新東北介紹 Hsin Tung-pei Chieh-shao], sourced from Tung-pei Jih-pao, Mukden [東北日報], published 2011, Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700170091-1, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2024, page 4

    The delegation of P'ing-an Pei-tao and Hsin-i-chou municipality led by Li Ken-ho (2621 2704 3109), the vice chairman of the people's council of Hsin-i-chou municipality, P'ing-an Pei-tao, the Korean Democratic People's Republic, attache Cheng Feng-kuei (6774 7685 3802) of the Korean Embassy in China, and the Korean comrades in Tan-tung attended the meeting upon invitation.[…] Chief delegate Li Ken-ho gave a speech upon request under loud applauses. He said that Hsin-i-chou and Tan-tung were connected not only geographically, but also by the common ideology and common struggle goal of the people of the two nations.

    人民日報

    [1965 March 31 [1965 March 12], unsigned, “A Solemn Ceremony to Change the Name of An-tung Municipality to Tan-tung Municipality”, in Translations of Political and Sociological Information on Communist China, number 271, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Jen-min Jih-pao, Peiping [人民日報], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, pages 47, 48

    Comprehensive top-level leadership talks in Simuiju^([sic – meaning Sinuiju]) [Xinyizhou] between Communist China and North Korea, which came about with the unofficial visit of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, are becoming the object of considerable interest, as international interest in the Korean peninsula is higher now than at any time in the past.

    1985 July 12 [1985 May 8], “Kim Il-song, Hu Yaobang Meeting Reported”, in Korean Affairs Report, number 85-048, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 46

    Dandong Border Economic Cooperation Zone, at State level, was approved by the State Council in July 1992. The zone is at the Yellow Sea estuary in the northeast of Heilongjiang province. 23.57 sq km are under the zone's control. The zone backs on to the bustling old city area, facing Xinyizhou in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the sea. It has bright prospects for investment and commerce.

    1995, China Economic News, volume 16, numbers 1-24, Economic Information & Consultancy Co, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2

    His troops had no identification of any sort, and the Soviet garrison commander in Xinyizhou (located in North Korea, across the river from Andong) could not be confident that this band of armed men was not a force of bandits or a stray unit of the former Manchukuo puppet army.

    2005, Harold Μ. Tanner, “Guerrilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947”, in Warfare in China Since 1600, 1st edition, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1190

    Synonyms: Sinuiju

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

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Origin

  1. Mandarin新義州 /新义州
  2. EnglishXinyizhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新義州 /新义州 (Xīnyìzhōu).

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