Chichin

English Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles -en 2006 Taiwan place names https://web.archive.org/web/20061001212733/https://pinyin.info/taiwan/place_names.html Pinyin.info This list of city and county names of places in Taiwan gives Chinese characters, Hanyu Pinyin, Tongyong Pinyin, and a commonly seen older form (usually bastardized Wade-Giles).zh 鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old formszh 旗津區 / Qijin / Qíjīn / Cijin / Chichin romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 旗津 Chʻi²-chin¹. Proper noun en Cijin. en May 13, 1979 Brevities https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-05-13_20_18/ Free China Weekly XX 18 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-05-13_20_18/page/n3/ Undersea tunnelConstruction of a 1,635 meter long undersea tunnel to link downtown Kaohsiung with the offshore Chichin district is scheduled to start by the end of this year, Li Lien-chih, director of the Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau said. en 1986 Eric Downton Pacific Challenge https://archive.org/details/pacificchallenge0000down/ w:Stoddart Publishing 0-7737-2058-8 760516549 112 https://archive.org/details/pacificchallenge0000down/page/112/ In the yards scattered around Kaohsiung harbor they still build junks for the fishing fleets that are direct, recognizable descendants of the ships that formed Cheng Ho’s armadas. You can take a short ferry ride from the shipbreakers’ piers, where vessels of modern vintage are being put to death, to places, such as Chichin Island, where junks of the ancient lineage are being given birth. en 1998 Robert Storey Taiwan https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/ w:Lonely Planet 4th 0-86442-634-8 970524541 266 https://archive.org/details/taiwan00stor/page/266/ In the 1980s, Chichin Island could only be reached by boat and was devoid of cars. The mayor of Kaohsiung at that time proposed making this island into 'another Miami Beach'. It was not to be. Construction of the cross-harbour tunnel in 1985 has turned most of Chichin Island into a container port. en July 29, 2005 Yu-Tzu Chiu Chen travels to the disputed Pratas Islands https://web.archive.org/web/20060113033057/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/07/29/2003265485 13 January 2006 w:Taipei Times A bus stop cuts a lonely figure against the landscape of Dongsha Island. Although the sign identifies it as a Kaohsiung City bus stop, and the official address is part of Kaohsiung's Chichin district, Dongsha Island lies in the South China Sea, about 444km southwest of the city, and is part of the Pratas Islands. en 2014/02/13 Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel https://web.archive.org/web/20141020201435/https://kh.twport.com.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=E5389B560EF06AA8 20 October 2014 zh:臺灣港務股份有限公司-高雄港務分公司<t:Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Ltd.> Due to geographic restrictions prior to 1983, the development of the Port of Kaohsiung was limited to the northeast bank of the fairway. The Chichin District, on the southwest bank, was largely sidestepped by construction of the No. 2 Entrance in 1969. The port reopened the Chung-Hsin Commercial Harbor Area as Container Terminal No. 4 in 1983 in order to facilitate equitable harbor development on both sides of the main fairway, improve overall utilization of port land, attract more container shipping business, and expand services available to shipping customers.To end Chichin’s isolation and increase the accessibility of all port land, a Cross-Harbor Tunnel was completed 3 years ahead of the completion of the Container Terminal No. 4 project. The tunnel was designed to serve the needs of both container traffic and Chichin District residents. en 2021 January Lin Chien-Hung; et al. 高雄港過港隧道延壽工程 再創海底隧道新生命 Prolongation of Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel Service Life for Recreate a New Life to the Undersea Tunnel zh:中華技術<t:CECI Engineering Technology> https://web.archive.org/web/20220919095954/https://tpl.ncl.edu.tw/NclService/pdfdownload?filePath=lV8OirTfsslWcCxIpLbUfmdCa1P8r-hEJj7i2NQN_DdWGksqk5KLY3bfPj54aFpp&imgType=Bn5sH4BGpJw=&key=na9hRxeE2rTcUo9ClsLTj8okS5odbXuk8ZMBfu3JO9EeVVU9OyINO4qBZJhLTxWd&xmlId=0007201598 19 September 2022 129 1818-4464 857708665 117 https://www.ceci.org.tw/Resources/e-book/n129/index.html#p=117 Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel is located at Container Terminal No. 3 in Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung City. It cross through the main channel of Kaohsiung Port with a width of 440m and a water depth of 14m to the Chung-Hsin Commercial Harbor Area in the Chichin District on the opposite bank. en Translations Cijin References en Taiwan