Meaning of Dongning | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.

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“At the same time, according to official information, fighting occurred on the night of August 17, at Tungning,¹²⁹ south of Suifenho. Tungning was then occupied by Soviet troops possibly “consisting of Koreans, Buriats and Magyars” as front-line formations.¹³⁰”

“Tungning, one of the most isolated towns in all Manchuria, is four hundred miles east of Harbin. To get⟳ there, I went by rail to the border⟳ town Progranichnaya, where the Chinese Eastern Railway enters eastern Russia (Siberia), then traveled sixty miles south through wild mountains on the Manchuria-Siberia border⟳, a journey of one day by bus or two days by Russian wagon.[…] At Tungning we found a well-to-do Christian who was the leading carpenter of the town. He was known by all as a believer. Although the population of Tungning was large (40,000), no one knew of any missionary or other Christian worker having ever been there. They did know⟳ of some Korean Christians in a village nearby. Tungning was a real frontier town, and the only one in all China where we had seen no heathen temple.”

“Chinese authorities have⟳ locked down an area of more than 250,000 people after half a dozen coronavirus cases were confirmed near the Russian border⟳ in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Checkpoints have⟳ been set⟳ up in Dongning and Suifenhe, and people were told not to leave⟳ unless necessary. Bus service has been suspended, schools closed and production halted at factories not making daily necessities. Restaurants were told to stop⟳ dine-in service and residential communities to control⟳ entry. Four cases have⟳ been confirmed since Thursday in Suifenhe and two in Dongning.”

“The northeastern cities Huichun^([sic – meaning Hunchun]) and Dongning, both along the border⟳ with Russia, have⟳ suspended from mid-November some non-essential imports by highways, such as wine, milk and chocolate, to reduce⟳ infection risks.”

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