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Dongning
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English
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization for the en cmn 東寧.
Pronunciation
en /dɔŋ.nɪŋ/ /dɒŋ-/
do͝ong′nĭng′Tungning 1960 3 Formerly Sanchakow zh 三岔口.
en Dong ning
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Mudanjiang p/Heilongjiang c/China formerly a county.
en 1959 Peter S. H. Tang Consequences of Soviet Railway Policy Russian and Soviet Policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911-1931 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t0hv5d238&seq=257 w:Duke University Press 59-7084 255475 223 https://archive.org/details/russiansovietpol01tang/page/223/ At the same time, according to official information, fighting occurred on the night of August 17, at Tungning,¹²⁹ south of Suifenho. Tungning was then occupied by Soviet troops possibly “consisting of Koreans, Buriats and Magyars” as front-line formations.¹³⁰ on
en 1969 Charles Alexander Leonard Pioneering on the Chinese Frontiers Repaid a Hundredfold https://archive.org/details/repaidhundredfol0000leon/ Grand Rapids, Mich. w:William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 72-75105 15420 102–103 https://archive.org/details/repaidhundredfol0000leon/page/102/ Tungning, one of the most isolated towns in all Manchuria, is four hundred miles east of Harbin. To get there, I went by rail to the border town Progranichnaya, where the Chinese Eastern Railway enters eastern Russia (Siberia), then traveled sixty miles south through wild mountains on the Manchuria-Siberia border, a journey of one day by bus or two days by Russian wagon.At Tungning we found a well-to-do Christian who was the leading carpenter of the town. He was known by all as a believer. Although the population of Tungning was large (40,000), no one knew of any missionary or other Christian worker having ever been there. They did know of some Korean Christians in a village nearby. Tungning was a real frontier town, and the only one in all China where we had seen no heathen temple. on
en December 13, 2020 Asia Today: Japan, S.Korea set new daily records, mull steps https://web.archive.org/web/20231103233228/https://apnews.com/article/yoshihide-suga-coronavirus-pandemic-asia-asia-pacific-japan-a7feaff596efca32dc63e145092bcff4 3 November 2023 https://apnews.com/article/yoshihide-suga-coronavirus-pandemic-asia-asia-pacific-japan-a7feaff596efca32dc63e145092bcff4 w:AP News Chinese authorities have locked down an area of more than 250,000 people after half a dozen coronavirus cases were confirmed near the Russian border in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Checkpoints have been set up in Dongning and Suifenhe, and people were told not to leave unless necessary. Bus service has been suspended, schools closed and production halted at factories not making daily necessities. Restaurants were told to stop dine-in service and residential communities to control entry. Four cases have been confirmed since Thursday in Suifenhe and two in Dongning.
en November 30, 2021 Roxanne Liu; Gabriel Crossley; Beijing Newsroom Two Chinese border cities limit rail imports amid COVID outbreak in the north Christopher Cushing; Edwina Gibbs https://web.archive.org/web/20211130063836/https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/two-chinese-border-cities-limit-rail-imports-amid-covid-outbreak-north-2021-11-30/ 30 November 2021 w:Reuters Commodities The northeastern cities HuichunHunchun and Dongning, both along the border with Russia, have suspended from mid-November some non-essential imports by highways, such as wine, milk and chocolate, to reduce infection risks.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 東寧
Mandarin: cmn 東寧 Dōngníng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Dongning Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1044 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1044/ 1