Meaning of Pishan | Babel Free
Definitions
A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Examples
“In September 1970, (A-pu-la-chi-i-min), leader of a militia company of the No 12 production brigade of (Yehchin) commune in Pishan County, Sinkiang, sacrificed his life for the safety of eight militiamen during military training.”
“In Pishan county, located between the Taklamakan desert to the north and the gobi to the south, in eight years the people have built 229 kilometers of irrigation canals in order to utilize the melting snow of the Kunlun Mountains for irrigation.”
東西報
“The kidnappers took two people hostage late on Wednesday in Pishan County in the far southern part of Xinjiang, close to the borders of India and Pakistan, said the region’s official news website (www.tianshannet.com).”
“Radio Free Asia reported that Friday’s attack took place in Guma County, known as Pishan in Chinese. A man who answered the telephone at the Pishan County Public Security Bureau said he had no information about the attack, and a man at the Pishan County People’s Hospital said, “We’re not allowed to answer your question, sorry.””
“The mines at Hsiahiskow, Pishan county, have a combined production of 300 tons a day.”
“These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions.”
“A Szechwan provincial conference on rural economic diversification, held in Pishan County recently, studied the series of instructions of Chairman Mao and the party center on diversification and criticized the interference and sabotage caused to diversification by the line of Liu Shao-chi and Lin Piao.”
“When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.