Meaning of Huining | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A county of Baiyin, Gansu, China.
2. Synonym of Hoeryong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Examples

“My wife used to work in the countryside, but I had her brought into town to look after me, thus turning her into an idle consumer. This is an extremely dangerous trend, and I should emulate the comrades of Huining County, Kansu Province, by returning with my family to my native village to participate in agricultural production.”

“A brief police account of the attack on Tuesday in semirural Huining County, Gansu Province, left many questions unanswered, including the identities of the victims.”

“The case was heard by the Huining county court in northwestern China’s Gansu province at the end of June.[…] Song met the mother, identified by her surname Jiang, in the spring of 2018 when on the street in Huining county and learned that Jiang was single.”

“The mineral resources of Kirin province have never been adequately studied. They are known to include, however, in addition to the gold and copper now being mined in the T’ien Pao Shan district contiguous to the proposed Huining (Kainei in Japanese) terminus of the Kirin-Tunhua-Huining railway, also aluminum in the valley of the Mutan, north of Tunhua.”

“This line is a continuation of the Seoul-Gensan line and extends from Gensan, in South Kanko Province, to Kainei (Korean “Hoiryong”; Chinese “Huining”), in North Kanko, a distance of some 383.8 miles.”

“The project for a railway from Kirin City, the capital of Kirin province, to Huining,* a city on the Korean side of the Manchurian-Chosen border, which has so far been realized only in part with the completion of the construction of the Kirin-Tunhua railway in 1927, was first made the subject of agreements with the Japanese Government in 1907 and 1909.”

“Meanwhile, a narrow-gauge railway (2 ft. 6 in), running 69 miles between Huining, on the Korean side, and Tienpaoshan, was promoted as a joint undertaking of the Chinese Government and Japanese private individuals, and its construction was completed in 1924. By an agreement signed on December 24, 1926, the Kirin-Tunhua line, run- ning 130 miles west of Kirin towards Korea was built for China by the South Manchuria Railway Co. as the contractor at a cost of 24,000,000 yen.[…]Of the Kirin-Huining Railway of 260 miles, the 130 miles of the Kirin-Tunhua line and 69 miles of light railway from the Korean side to Tienpaoshan have thus far been completed, and about 60 miles separate the two railheads.”

“The uncompleted extension of this line from Tunhua to Huining (Kainei) on the Korean border is subject to controversy, with Japan claiming an exclusive right to finance its construction, a right which is not admitted by the Chinese.”

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