Jiuquan

jiǔquán English Alternative forms en Chiu-ch'üan Chiuchuan Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 酒泉 Jiǔquán. Pronunciation jyō′chüăn′ en Jiu quan en Proper noun en prefecture-level city p/Gansu c/China. en January 15, 2017 Javier C. Hernández It Can Power a Small Nation. But This Wind Farm in China Is Mostly Idle. w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170116181945/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/world/asia/china-gansu-wind-farm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/world/asia/china-gansu-wind-farm.html January 16, 2017 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific The wind howls outside, but many turbines in Jiuquan, a city of vast deserts and farms in the northwest province of Gansu, have been shut off because of weak demand. en September 12, 2020 China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft https://web.archive.org/web/20220519163102/https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-planets-mars-china-science-9ac2c7e429f039c1c09e81d5dc9adb7c 19 May 2022 w:AP News The program has also suffered the occasional setback. The northwestern satellite launch center of Jiuquan reported that an optical satellite launched midday Saturday failed to enter its preset orbit after abnormalities were observed during the flight of its carrier rocket. Translations prefecture-level city in western China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 酒泉 Mandarin: cmn 酒泉 Jiǔquán Japanese: ja Polish: pl Jiuquan m-in Further reading Jiuquan in Encyclopædia Britannica Kiuchüan or Chiu-chüanChiu-ch’üan 958 1 Until 1913 called Suchow zh 肅州. en 1998 Jiuquan 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 1452 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1452/ 3