Qipan

qīpàn qípán qípàn qǐpàn qìpàn English Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 棋盤 Qípán. Pronunciation chē′pän′ en Qi pan Proper noun en township county/Jianli prefecture-level city/Jingzhou p/Hubei c/China. en 2001 w:Gordon G. Chang Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse w:The Coming Collapse of China https://archive.org/details/comingcollapseof00chan/ Business/Current Affairs New York w:Random House 0-375-50477-X 00-054782 45636911 201 https://archive.org/details/comingcollapseof00chan/page/201/ “I have met old people who held my hands and told me tearfully that they preferred to die early,” wrote a township Party secretary, Li Changping, “and I have seen the sad sight of children kneeling before me saying they want to attend school.” In Li’s Qipan, also in Jianli County, society is failing because of the decline of agriculture. Li wrote a direct plea to Zhu Rongji about conditions in his area. That was futile because the well-intentioned Zhu has little power in Qipan and most other places in the countryside. en 27 January 2002 Josephine Ma Champion of the downtrodden has no regrets https://web.archive.org/web/20220813121435/https://www.scmp.com/article/369997/champion-downtrodden-has-no-regrets 13 August 2022 w:South China Morning Post In his letter, Mr Li revealed the bleak situation in Qipan township. Almost all the young people in the township had left to find work in cities and 65 per cent of the farmland had been left idle. A family of five paid at least 350 yuan (HK$329) a year for each mu (0.07 of a hectare) of farmland they looked after, and 85 per cent of farmers were losing money. en 2003 Changping Li The Crisis in the Countryside w:Chaohua Wang w:One China, Many Paths https://archive.org/details/onechinamanypath0000unse/ Verso Books Verso 1-85984-537-1 813340665 198 https://archive.org/details/onechinamanypath0000unse/page/198/ I come from a peasant family in Hubei, where I was born in Jianli County, by the Honghu Lake in the mid-Yangtze tributary area.When I was fifteen I got the top score in the entrance examinations for the provincial key-point high school in our township Qipan (‘Chessboard’). en Translations township Chinese: Cantonese: yue 棋盤 Mandarin: cmn 棋盤 Qípán Japanese: ja