Meaning of Jingsha | Babel Free

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Synonym of Jingzhou.

historical

Examples

“I remember attending a reception in Beijing to promote investment in Jingsha City, Hubei Province. The first speaker was Jingsha’s Party Secretary; the second speaker was the Mayor.”

“Plans were also announced to build a new rail link from Wuhan directly to the Three Gorges via Jingsha and Yichang.[…] The new Jingsha can be expected to grow rapidly, following the example of Xiangfan 200 kilometres to the north which was listed in 1992 with Wuhan among China’s top 54 cities (all had GDP exceeding ten billion renminbi annually).[…] For all the talk of cooperation, Wuhan and Shanghai remain competitors, while the new Jingsha and other medium-sized cities will seek to challenge the dominance of the giants.”

“I unfolded a map of China and located the city of Jingzhou (in 1994, the two districts, Shashi and Jingzhou, were amalgamated into the city of Jingsha, and later renamed the city of Jingzhou), where my high school was located, right in the geographic center of China.”

“A few years back, there were debates over whether the Yangtze might end up like the Yellow River. The answer should be clear by now. Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River, as the upper third of the Yangtze is called, saw an increase in silt discharge of 0.4 kilograms per cubic meter between 1982 and 1985.”

“The 1st Army now swiftly moved southwest and then swung north to the Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River, as the Yangzi is called upstream.”

“The two also have signed an agreement for broad cooperation on researching ecologically better ways to manage four more dams being built or planned further upstream from the Three Gorges on the upper reaches of the Yangtze, known as the Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River.”

“The Western Line starts from Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River (the upstream of Yangtze River), Daduhe River and Yalong River (both of them are branches of the Yangtze River), passes the Qingzang Plateau through many tunnels under mountains before entering the upstream of the Yellow River at a length of 300 kilometres to supply water to Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Shanxi (see Map 1).”

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