Min-feng

Minfeng English thumb|Map including MIN-FENG (NIYA BAZAR) (U.S. Army Topographic Command USATC, 1971) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 民豐 Min²-feng¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Minfeng (Niya) en 21 March 1972 CHINA President's Daily Brief https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/The_President%27s_Daily_Brief_21_March_1972.pdf w:CIA 3 https://archive.org/details/ThePresidentsDailyBrief21March1972/page/n6/ Satellite photography suggests that the Chinese have plans to launch ICBMs from the Wu-chai launch complex to the Indian Ocean. Since late 1970, they have been building six permanent tracking sites near the Wu-chai rangehead, where they developed the CSS-2 IRBM. Recent photography shows that at least two of these sites are located well south of the CSS-2 flight path from Wu-chai to the regular impact area at Min-feng, some 1,400 nm to the west. In addition, work on a large silo has been under way at Wu-chai since the summer of 1968. en 1974 William Watson William Watson (sinologist) T’ang Dynasty Ancient China: The Discoveries of Post-Liberation Chinese Archaeology https://archive.org/details/ancientchinadisc00wats/ 0-8212-0608-7 73-91129 1058042 New York Graphic Society 81 https://archive.org/details/ancientchinadisc00wats/page/81/ 1 In the far west (Persia and the other countries of the Near East), the Chinese were held to be most remarkable for their figured silks. Fortunately the warm sand of such stations on the Silk Route as Turfan and Min-feng have preserved fragments of the weaves from which we can appreciate the artistry of colour and design as well as the barely credible skill of the weaving technique. en 1975 Translations on People's Republic of China https://books.google.com/books?id=HaoVAAAAMAAJ w:United States Joint Publications Research Service 2370938 105 (b) Medium-speed type--Sand dunes whose average annual rate of forward movement is between 5 and 10 meters. Major regions include:[...]the region southwest of the Min-feng oasis, and Wa-shih-hsia, all in the Takla Makan Desert;[...] en 1978 Translations on People's Republic of China https://books.google.com/books?id=gL4VAAAAMAAJ w:United States Joint Publications Research Service 418-426 2370938 41 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030367463 This year Min-feng County built a hydropower station by utilizing the water of "Water Way 818." Some brigades of Shang-you Commune, Mo-yu County built more than 10 small power plants by converting electric motors into generators. Lo-p'u County expanded its original hydropower capacity by adding on more generating sets; its generating capacity has greatly increased. en https://www.jstor.org/stable/41645543 1998 Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD Angela Sheng Asia Major (journal) Asia Major 11 2 w:Academia Sinica 121 The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran zh 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang zh 若羌 county), Ni-ya zh 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng zh 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar. en Translations Minfeng