Jingsha

English Pronunciation en /d͡ʒɪŋˈʃɑ/ jĭng′shä′ en ɑː 2 en Jing sha Etymology 1 From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - 荊沙, from 荊州 Jīngzhōu Jingzhou + 沙市 Shāshì Shashi. Proper noun en historical en Jingzhou. en 1996 Laurence J. Brahm Red Capital China as No. 1: The New Superpower Takes Centre Stage https://archive.org/details/chinaasno1newsup0000brah/ Butterworth-Heinemann Asia 981-00-6797-6 36844532 153 https://archive.org/details/chinaasno1newsup0000brah/page/153/ I remember attending a reception in Beijing to promote investment in Jingsha City, Hubei Province. The first speaker was Jingsha’s Party Secretary; the second speaker was the Mayor. en 1996 w:John Gittings A Tale of Two Cities - Hubei Real China: From Cannibalism to Karaoke https://archive.org/details/realchinafromcan0000gitt/ w:Pocket Books 1997 0-671-51651-5 38996810 138–139 https://archive.org/details/realchinafromcan0000gitt/page/138/ Plans were also announced to build a new rail link from Wuhan directly to the Three Gorges via Jingsha and Yichang.The new Jingsha can be expected to grow rapidly, following the example of Xiangfan 200 kilometres to the north which was listed in 1992 with Wuhan among China’s top 54 cities (all had GDP exceeding ten billion renminbi annually).For all the talk of cooperation, Wuhan and Shanghai remain competitors, while the new Jingsha and other medium-sized cities will seek to challenge the dominance of the giants. en 2008 Tenzin Qopei Popularizing Tibetan Culture Chinese Life: Bitter-Sweet Portraits 1991-2008 https://archive.org/details/chineselifebitte0000unse_d6y5/ w:Foreign Languages Press 978-7-119-05556-5 367558321 134 https://archive.org/details/chineselifebitte0000unse_d6y5/page/134/ I unfolded a map of China and located the city of Jingzhou (in 1994, the two districts, Shashi and Jingzhou, were amalgamated into the city of Jingsha, and later renamed the city of Jingzhou), where my high school was located, right in the geographic center of China. en Further reading en 1998 JinshaJingsha Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1451 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1451/ 2 Etymology 2 Proper noun en misspelling en Jinsha: en Jinsha Q1038418 1. en 1991 Bochuan He The Ecological Crisis: A Grim Legacy China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development https://archive.org/details/chinaonedge00hebo/ w:China Books and Periodicals 0-8351-2448-7 91-70073 25304782 31 https://archive.org/details/chinaonedge00hebo/page/31/ A few years back, there were debates over whether the Yangtze might end up like the Yellow River. The answer should be clear by now. JingshaJinsha River, as the upper third of the Yangtze is called, saw an increase in silt discharge of 0.4 kilograms per cubic meter between 1982 and 1985. en 2006 Shuyun Sun Starting Afresh The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth https://archive.org/details/longmarchtruehis0000suns/ 1st w:Doubleday 978-0-385-52024-9 2006052132 762200329 117 https://archive.org/details/longmarchtruehis0000suns/page/117/ The 1st Army now swiftly moved southwest and then swung north to the JingshaJinsha River, as the Yangzi is called upstream. en January 29, 2008 Shai Oster Pact May Ease Impact Of Three Gorges Dam https://web.archive.org/web/20150713130718/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120154424362122751 13 July 2015 w:Wall Street Journal World The two also have signed an agreement for broad cooperation on researching ecologically better ways to manage four more dams being built or planned further upstream from the Three Gorges on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, known as the JingshaJinsha River. en 2010 Yang Mu; Teng Siow Song China's Looming Water Crisis: Is Beijing Struggling to Overcome It? China's New Social Policy: Initiatives for a Harmonious Society Series on Contemporary China https://archive.org/details/chinasnewsocialp0000unse/ w:World Scientific 20 978-981-4277-73-0 317922152 178–179 https://archive.org/details/chinasnewsocialp0000unse/page/178/ The Western Line starts from JingshaJinsha River (the upstream of Yangtze River), Daduhe River and Yalong River (both of them are branches of the Yangtze River), passes the Qingzang Plateau through many tunnels under mountains before entering the upstream of the Yellow River at a length of 300 kilometres to supply water to Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Shanxi (see Map 1). en Usage notes This spelling demonstrates confusion between -n and -ng, which is also a common phenomenon in spoken Mandarin Chinese. See also en Jingsha Jiang Further reading Jingsha