Chengde
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See also: Chéngdé
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Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 承德 (Chéngdé, literally “Upholding or Receiving Virtue”).
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Chengde
- A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
- 2014 April 9, Austin Ramzy, “Beijing’s Neighbors Resist Transfer of Its Polluting Industries”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 July 2022[3]:
- “This first wave of relocated companies are all highly polluting, high energy-consuming type businesses that will be a burden wherever they go, so at present the enthusiasm of Tianjin and Hebei to take them on isn’t high,” a district official from the Hebei city of Chengde told the newspaper.
- A county of Chengde, Hebei, China.
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Translations[edit]
prefecture-level city and county in Hebei
References[edit]
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chengteh or Ch’eng-te”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 383, column 1
Further reading[edit]
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 2
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