Meaning of Gejiu | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.

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“The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.”

“According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close⟳ to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test⟳ the experiment⟳. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.”

“In Gejiu, a city of 310,000 people on a route favored by drug traffickers, initial rounds of AIDS testing in recent years found more than 1,000 people with H.I.V., nearly all drug users or prostitutes. Tong Waiyuan, a vice mayor, explained that Yunnan's new plan⟳ included needle exchanges, condom promotion, and more testing and education and counseling.”

“An estimated 50,000 tonnes of capacity is expected to be closed in 2010 among 53 lead⟳ smelters in the Shadian industrial section of Gejiu city in Yunnan province which has 500,000 tonnes of lead⟳ smelting capacity a year, local officials said Thursday.”

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