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Meaning of Gaoyao | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A district of Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China.

Examples

“A man answering the phones at the city government of Gaoyao, located 230 kilometers to the northwest of Hong Kong, confirmed late Monday afternoon that pigs were dying there.[…] Hong Kong media were full of lurid accounts Monday of pigs staggering around with blood pouring from their bodies in Gaoyao and neighboring Yunfu, both in Guangdong Province.”
“A propaganda department of Zhaoqing city’s Gaoyao district, which oversees Lubu town with a population of more than 70,000, said police were injured. In a post on its official Sina Weibo account, Gaoyao’s Communist Party committee propaganda department said that around noon “some ordinary people who are unaware of the truth led by some troublemakers attempted to storm the Lubu town government” and attacked and injured some police officers who were trying to maintain order. It said those people should surrender themselves to police and people at the government offices should leave the site immediately.[…] The post by the Gaoyao propaganda department was removed later Sunday afternoon. Photos of the protest also posted on Sina Weibo had earlier apparently been taken down by censors.”
“Secondly, associated demonstration of the breakdown structure and the progress of government work has been made on government web portals. The governments of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province and Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, have set up special webpages to disclose information about each work task of the government.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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