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Shizhu
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shīzhǔ shízhú shízhù shìzhǔ
English
Shizhu County
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 石柱 Shízhù.
Pronunciation
shûʹjo͞oʹ
en Shi zhu
Proper noun
en Tujia autonomous county city/Chongqing c/China.
en 1982 February Huanran Wen; He Yeheng China's Forests—Past and Present w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1982-02/ w:China Welfare Institute XXXI 2 0009-4447 1554324 66 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1982-02/page/n67/ The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s Longshan county.
en JUNE 4, 2018 Muyu Xu; David Stanway China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting Richard Pullin https://web.archive.org/web/20230527113954/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-idINKCN1J00DE w:Reuters Environment The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.
en 16 August 2019 Ann Cao Online fury after tutor beats child in class in China w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20190816075136/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3023091/online-fury-after-tutor-beats-child-class-china 1563-9371 648902513 Society https://archive.li/yNhob The education commission of Shizhu county in Chongqing said the beating was inflicted by the founder of an illegal centre called Liuliu, which the commission last year ordered to close down because it did not have a permit to operate, online news outlet ThePaper.cn reported on Thursday.
Translations
Tujia autonomous county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 石柱
Mandarin: cmn 石柱 Shízhù
Japanese: ja