Raoping

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 饒平 / 饶平 (Ráopíng).

Proper noun

Raoping

  1. A county of Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
    • 1984 September 15 [1984 September 14], Christopher S. Wren, “FREE ENTERPRISE IN CHINA: THE UNBROKEN SHACKLES”, in The New York Times[1], sourced from Peking, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World‎[2]:
      In Guangdong Province in southeastern China, 22 kinds of fees and taxes have been slapped on private businessmen by 17 different departments. In Raoping County, 265 privately employed households were made to pay an old man's rent for the county's care of the elderly.

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