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Baiyin
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báiyín bàiyīn Báiyín
English
Etymology
From en cmn ^白銀.
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Gansu c/China.
en 1972 Theodore Shabad The Kansu Corridor China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ w:Praeger Publishers 71-178868 482667885 294 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/294/ Metallic minerals are associated mainly with the copper-mining center of Paiyin, 45 miles northeast of Lanchow. Paiyin was raised to the status of city in 1958, after construction of the Lanchow-Paotow railroad had provided access to the deposit. on
en MARCH 30, 2018 Chris Buckley ‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20180331003833/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/world/asia/death-sentence-in-china-11-killings-.html 31 March 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/world/asia/death-sentence-in-china-11-killings-.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was not unexpected in China, which executes more prisoners than any other.
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn ^白銀
Japanese: ja