Meaning of Jinning | Babel Free

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1. A rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan.
2. A district of Kunming, Yunnan, China.

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“On Kinmen’s northwest tip, in Jinning District, the Guningtou Battlefield was the scene of a 56-hour bloodbath that began when Communist troops landed on the shore in the early hours of October 24, 1949.[…] Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.”

“Reaching NTD12,878 in average alcohol spending per capita in 2014, Jinning Township of Kinmen County is defined as outliers for out valuing the other regions; and is accommodated beyond graph boundary. The high alcohol spending in Jinning Township also vastly contributes to the majority of alcohol expenditure of Kinmen County. For examples, the total expenditure in Kinmen County is NTD369,011,239.91 in 2014; while the expenditure of Jinning Township, Kinmen County reaches NTD351,670,052. Moreover, the total expenditure of 2015 in Kinmen County decreased by NTD200 million NTD, which corresponds to the declining total expenditure in Jinning Township, Kinmen County.”

“Significant differences in place attachment were also founded among those coming from different townships. An ANOVA post hoc test - the Fisher's LSD test - reveals that the place attachment of residents in Jincheng Township and Jinning Township was significantly higher than that of residents in Jinhu Township and Jinsha Township.”

“According to the Kinmen County Tourism Department website, Wind Lion Gods, or "Wind Lion Masters" (風獅爺) in Chinese, are stone lions originally brought to Kinmen from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in China to protect the group of islands from evil spirits, bad luck and natural disasters, including monsoon winds which are particularly fierce during the winter months.[…] For those in the county, Chang recommended that visitors check out a chubby yellow wind lion in Jinning Township's Huxia Village that he found particularly cute.”

“The finds at Shihchaishan, near Chinning county in Yunnan province, deserve special mention. Between 1955 and 1960 some 40 tombs of the Kingdom of Tien of the Western Han period were unearthed there.”

“The conflict was set off by efforts to build a logistics center for the distribution of manufactured goods in Jinning, a county under Kunming’s jurisdiction, the Kunming government said in a statement on Wednesday.[…] Some residents in Jinning voiced doubt that the men trucked into the village were construction workers,[…].”

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