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Meaning of Jingang | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

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Synonym of Kumgang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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“In the city of Jiangyuanaogao^([sicmeaning Gaocheng County, Jiangyuan Province or Kosong County, Kangwon Province (from Jiangyuan Dao Gaocheng Jun)']) [3068 0626 6670 7559], located at the foot of the Jingang [6855 9474^([sicmeaning 0474])] Mountains not far from the northern border of the military demarcation line, was the Sanripu [0005 2480 3184] cooperative farm.”

在江原道高城郡内金刚山麓,离军事分界线北侧不远,有个三日浦合作农场。

“In 1927, Chang visited Mount Jingang in Korea and met 15-year-old Chunhong.”

陈家紫

“In September, 2002, Xinyizhou was designated by the North Korean government as a special administrative region. In November of the same year, the standing committee of the Supreme People’s Congress passedKaicheng Industrial Region ActandJingangshan Tourist Region Act”, designating the city of Kaicheng as a special industrial development area, and the region of Jingangshan as a special tourist area.”
Nevertheless, the DPRK leadership has thought about reform and openness for decades, and has made some relatively small and exemplary attempts: Kim Jong Il visited high-tech zones in Beijing and Shanghai; officials of the DPRK have taken "observation and learning" trips to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in southern China; and North Korea has set up its own "special zones" in the Jingang Mountain area bordering South Korea, and in the Xinyizhou (Sinuiju) area bordering China.”
Diamond Mountain is a mountain called Jingang [in Chinese; pronounced Kumgang in Korean] located in the east of Haidong [Silla]. Although it is not wholly made of gold [jin], up, down, all around, and when you go into the mountain's precints it is all gold in the midsts of the sands of the flowing waters. When you look at it from a distance, the whole thing is golden.”
“[Zhang Daqian's] Landscape paintings are the best, with regard to both quality and quantity.[…]Fifteen life-paintings of the Jingang Mountains in Korea were particularly impressive. Daqian is fond of travelling.”

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