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Lingao
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Língāo
English
Lingao County
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - 臨高.
Pronunciation
lĭn′gou′ USLimko 1056 1, en /ˈlɪnˈɡaʊ/
en Lin gao
Proper noun
en county p/Hainan c/China.
en 15 July 1970 11 July 1970 Linkao County Bumper Harvest Daily Report: Communist China I 136 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262267&seq=471 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Haikow Hainan Island Service cmn 31371214 Communist China: Central-South Region D 6 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262267&seq=511 Linkao County has reaped a great bumper harvest of early-rice with total production 30 percent more than last year. The county has set a fine example for Hainan in developing grain production. Its experiences show that "it is completely possible for agriculture in Hainan to take a great leap forward." on
en 1979 w:Frederick C. Teiwes Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965 https://archive.org/details/politicspurgesin0000teiw/ w:M.E. Sharpe 0-87332-132-4 79-51182 5813286 370 https://archive.org/details/politicspurgesin0000teiw/page/370/ Subsequently, "all Hainan Island was swept by a wave of discrimination, attack, insult and threat against outside cadres [with the result that] everybody was plunged into a state of panic." This came to a climax in December 1956 with a "miniature Hungarian incident" in Linkao county. on
en November 27, 2020 Li Nan Beijing Review: How an addict conquered both his addiction and poverty https://web.archive.org/web/20230910094358/https://apnews.com/article/business-greater-china-human-welfare-poultry-farming-beijing-ead18db1bcbe8af49689928dfad07bd6 10 September 2023 https://apnews.com/article/business-greater-china-human-welfare-poultry-farming-beijing-ead18db1bcbe8af49689928dfad07bd6 AP News, PR Newswire Wang Haibian was among the first few people in Maniao, a fishing community in Lingao County of Hainan Province, south China, to get hooked on drugs in the mid-1990s.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 臨高
Mandarin: cmn 臨高 Língāo
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Lingao Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1745 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1745/ 2