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Sanming
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sānmíng
English
Alternative forms
en San-ming Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 三明 Sānmíng.
Pronunciation
sänʹmĭngʹ
en San ming
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city province/Fujian country/China.
en 1972 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 491704918 170 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/170/ The Southeast uplands are generally poor in mineral resources, but coal and iron were evidently abundant enough to justify the construction of a medium-size integrated iron and steel plant in Fukien at Sanming during the Great Leap. Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen district and iron ore at nearby Hwaan.
en 1976 Hung-ying Liao My Old Home Revisited Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1976_15_2/ XV 2 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 14 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1976_15_2/page/14/ In 1959, on my way to Changting from Sanming in north Fukien, the bus stopped at an eating place and I got into conversation with a young woman at the same table.
en 1988 w:Paul Theroux The Night Train to Xiamen: Number 375 Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China https://archive.org/details/ridingironrooste00ther_2/ w:G. P. Putnam's Sons 0-399-13309-7 87-31574 946226885 410–411 https://archive.org/details/ridingironrooste00ther_2/page/410/ A young woman had just finished her dancing class and was on her way home when I accosted her. She was Wan Li, a cadre at the economics ministry. She had gone to the Dalian Foreign Language Institute (she hadn't met Cherry Blossom there, unfortunately) but she had been raised in the central Fujian town of Sanming. That town had the reputation in China of being somewhat utopian. It had been developed by people from all over China, before the Cultural Revolution. Miss Wan claimed that everything that had been said about Sanming was true—no problems, no pollution, perfect integration, a model city."Any Tibetans in Sanming?""No," Miss Wan said. "They have to stay in Tibet and solve their own problems. But people in Sanming are very civilized. They are from all places. Like the United States!"
en DECEMBER 20, 2018 Hallie Gu; Tom Daly China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Fujian province Tom Hogue https://web.archive.org/web/20181220094712/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-swinefever-idUSKCN1OJ0EI 20 December 2018 w:Reuters Health News The outbreak in Sanming city in Fujian killed 27 animals on a farm of 11,950 pigs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.
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Translations
city in Fujian, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 三明 saam1 ming4
Mandarin: cmn 三明 Sānmíng
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
Polish: pl Sanming m-in
Further reading
Sanming, San-ming
en 1998 Sanming Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2785 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2785/ 3
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