Heixiazi

• Heihsiatzu (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑瞎子島 / 黑瞎子岛 (Hēixiāzǐ Dǎo).

• enPR: hāʹshyäʹdzûʹ

Heixiazi

1. Synonym of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island: An island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers divided between Heixiazidao, Fuyuan, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China and Khabarovsky district, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia; the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1991, Donald S. Zagoria, “The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific”, in Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin F. Laird, editors, Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev‎^[1], New York: Aldine de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 678:

     The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up.

   • 2012, Susan Turner Haynes, “China's Bilateral Interactions with Russia”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy‎^[2], Ashgate, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:

     This resurgence in the two nations’ bilateral trade caused Russian President Medvedev in 2011 to project that Sino-Russian trade could reach US$100 billion in only three to five years! (Xinhua News Agency 2011d). It has also allowed both countries to push past their previous differences in search of profit, such as China and Russia’s recent announcement of a joint venture to co-develop the border island of Heixiazi into a tourist resort (World News Connection 2011a).

   • 2014 November 26, Edward Wong, quoting Zhu Shibing, “Another Feline Incursion From Russia Into China”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2014, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     “Our monitoring data and this attack all tell that Ustin is in good physical condition, and has a large range of activities on Heixiazi Island,” Zhu Shibing, a wildlife protection expert from the Northeast Forestry University, said in a report on the goat attacks on Tuesday by Xinhua, the state news agency.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Heixiazi.