Changzhi
See also: Chángzhì
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 長治 / 长治 (Chángzhì).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌt͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒiː/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/, /-d͡ʒə/, enPR: chängʹjûʹ[2]
Proper noun
Changzhi
- A prefecture-level city of Shanxi, China.
- [1972 January 18 [1972 January 16], “New Industrial Center Develops in Southeastern Shansi”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 12, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page F 6:
- Changchih city in the central part of the region had only one small power plant and a few mills producing edible oil, wine and flour before liberation.]
- 2015 August 28, Michael Schumann, “Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2015, International Business[4]:
- Businessmen in Changzhi complain that construction projects supported by the local government have also been scaled back.
As a result, Changzhi’s cement plants are saddled by excess capacity. Companies in the province can produce three times as much cement as what was actually needed in 2014, according to the Shanxi Provincial Association of Building Material Industries. Two-thirds of them lost money in that year.
Translations
prefecture-level city
References
- ^ “China”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica[1], 15th edition, volume 16, 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42, column 1: “Conventional/Wade-Giles Pinyin […] Ch'ang-chih.......Changzhi”
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Changchih or Ch’ang-chih”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 369, column 2
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changzhi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 3