Nansha

Nánshā English Nansha District thumb|zh 南沙客运港Nansha Passenger Port Alternative forms en Nan-sha Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn 南沙 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Nan²-sha¹, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin. Pronunciation en /nɑnˈʃɑː/, nän′shä′Nansha Islands 1282 2 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Nansha.wav Southern England en ɑː 2 en Nan sha Proper noun - s en district sub-provincial city/Guangzhou p/Guangdong c/China. en 2010 w:Martin King Whyte One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China https://archive.org/details/onecountrytwosoc0000unse/ w:Harvard University Press 978-0-674-03630-7 2009024812 768467165 23928451M 408 https://archive.org/details/onecountrytwosoc0000unse/page/408/ On April 28, 2005, the State Council approved a new scheme of district administration in Guangzhou.[...]The southern part of Panyu was upgraded into an independent urban district, Nansha district. en 2017 Development and Planning in Seven Major Coastal Cities in Southern and Eastern China https://books.google.com/books?id=2UhxDQAAQBAJ w:Springer 978-3-319-46420-6 0924-5499 2016952881 970025864 28266801M 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=2UhxDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 Nansha District is the former Guangzhou Nansha Economic and Technological Development Zone that was established in 1993³ and was separated from Panyu District in 2005, representing the spatial and strategic importance of the region in Guangzhou's future development. en FEBRUARY 25, 2022 Clare Jim Two more Evergrande property assets taken over by state-owned firms Christian Schmollinger https://web.archive.org/web/20220507121227/https://www.reuters.com/article/china-property-debt-evergrande-idCNL1N2V00HL 07 May 2022 w:Reuters 公司新闻(英文) The world’s most indebted property developer on Jan. 26 transferred its control over a theme park called Evergrande Fairyland in the Nansha district of Guangzhou to Minmetals International Trust Co, according to the records. en en Spratly Islands: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name. en 1956 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/ w:Frederick A. Praeger 55-11530 633834569 169 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/page/169/ In addition to these two autonomous areas, Kwangtung Province also administers the islands in the South China Sea claimed by China. These are the Tungsha, Sisha, Chungsha and Nansha groups.[...]Finally, the Nansha group, which has no collective Western designation, extends from Lat. 4 degrees to 11 degrees 30 minutes N. and from Long. 109 degrees 30 minutes to 117 degrees 50 minutes E. The main islands are Taiping (Itu Aba) and Nanwei (Spratly). The islands yield guano, tropical fruit and fish. en December 10, 1978 Isles part of ROC, ministry affirms https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-12-10_19_49/ Free China Weekly XIX 49 Taipei 1 0016-0318 1786626 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-12-10_19_49/ The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry reaffirmed Dec. 7 that “it is indisputable that the Nansha Archipelago is an integral part of the territories of the Republic of China.”[...]The statement was made in response to the recent UPI report from Manila to the effect that the Philippines has, through a decree, made the so-called Kalayan Islands of the Nansha Archipelago (The Spratly Islands) a municipality of the Philippines. en 1987 Geoffrey Marston Abandonment of Territorial Claims: The Cases of Bouvet and Spratly Islands The British Year Book of International Law 1986 https://archive.org/details/britishyearbooko0057unse/ 57 Oxford w:Clarendon Press 0-19-825604-3 657935864 356 https://archive.org/details/britishyearbooko0057unse/page/356/ The Commissioner General asked for Foreign Office guidance in view of his information about earlier events relating to the British claim. In reply, the Foreign Office, in a telegram dated 12 June 1956, pointed out that as there was now a territorial dispute involving the two Chinas, the Philippines and possibly Vietnam over the Nansha Islands the British vessel should ‘stay well clear’ of Spratly Island. en 978-986-02-9419-4 https://archive.org/details/republicofchinay0000repu/ 2011 The Republic of China Yearbook 2011 Geography w:Government Information Office New Taipei 24–25 https://archive.org/details/republicofchinay0000repu/page/24/ In addition, the ROC maintains a historical claim to four groups of islands scattered over a vast area in the South China Sea that is surrounded by rich fishing grounds and gas and oil deposits. These are the Dongsha (Pratas) Islands zh 東沙群島, the Nansha (Spratly) Islands zh 南沙群島, the Xisha (Paracel) Islands zh 西沙群島, and the Zhongsha Islands (Macclesfield Bank) zh 中沙群島. en August 8, 2016 w:David E. Sanger; Rick Gladstone New Photos Cast Doubt on China’s Vow Not to Militarize Disputed Islands w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160809084647/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/world/asia/china-spratly-islands-south-china-sea.html 0362-4331 1645522 ASIA PACIFIC “China does not intend to pursue militarization,” Mr. Xi said, referring to the area as the Nansha Islands, a Chinese name for what most of the rest of the world calls the Spratlys in the South China Sea. en 06/11/2023 Joseph Yeh Vietnam's accusation of sovereignty infringement "unacceptable": Taiwan https://web.archive.org/web/20230611061627/https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202306110004 w:Focus Taiwan Politics Taiping, also known as Itu Aba, the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, zh 南沙群島), lies 1,600 kilometers southwest of Kaohsiung and is administered as part of the special municipality's Cijin District. en 12 June 2023 Michelle Chiang Taiping Island is a territory of Taiwan: Foreign Ministry https://web.archive.org/web/20230612094323/https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2009562 12 June 2023 https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2009562 w:Radio Taiwan International Taiping Island is located in the central Nansha Islands in the South China Sea. en en district prefecture-level city/Sansha p/Hainan c/China (claimed areas encompass areas administered or claimed by Brunei, China (PRC), Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (ROC), and Vietnam). en May 27, 2020 Li-shih Lu China’s expanding military reach https://web.archive.org/web/20200603154652/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2020/05/27/2003737098 03 June 2020 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Editorials 8 Only last month, China established Xisha District (zh 西沙) on Woody Island (Yongxing Island, zh 永興島) and Nansha District (zh 南沙) on the reef, both of which fall under Sansha, a prefecture-level city established in 2012. en 2021 January Zoe Haver China Maritime Report No. 12: Sansha City in China's South China Sea Strategy: Building a System of Administrative Control CMSI China Maritime Reports https://web.archive.org/web/20210105224811/https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=cmsi-maritime-reports January 05, 2021 https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=cmsi-maritime-reports 12 China Maritime Studies Institute<t:zh 中国海事研究所> 1239728772 29 The Nansha District (zh 南沙区) People’s Government is based on Fiery Cross Reef and has jurisdiction over the Spratly Islands.²¹⁴ Each district assumably has a district party committee as well.²¹⁵ Though publicly available information on these new districts is scarce, the establishment of Xisha District and Nansha District will likely improve Sansha’s administrative capacity and expand localized policymaking.²¹⁶ en 2022 Dragana Mitrovic<t:Драгана Д. Митровић> Pandemic's effects on China's foreign policy and its global power role Srpska politička misao<t:Српска политичка мисао> https://web.archive.org/web/20220514044633/https://ips.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SPM-75-7.pdf May 14, 2022 https://ips.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SPM-75-7.pdf 29 75 10.22182/spm.7512022.7 0354-5989 1232529687 150-151 On 18 April 2020, Chinese media reported on the State Council’s decision to set up two administrative units on islands in the South China Sea.⁷ This „major administrative move” meant that the Xisha district would be used for controlling Paracel Islands and surrounding waters and the Nansha district for governing the Spratly Islands and surrounding waters in the heart of the area contested by six regional countries. en Translations locations Chinese: Cantonese: yue 南沙 Mandarin: cmn 南沙 Nánshā Japanese: ja References Further reading Nansha, Nan-sha pn Nansha Islands Anagrams en aahnns Hanans Anshan shanna An-shan Hannas Shanna