Meaning of Qingchuan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A county of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China.
2. Synonym of Chongchon: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Examples

“It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue.”

“Since a magnitude eight earthquake struck Qingchuan county, Sichuan, five years ago, killing more than 80,000, a Hong Kong education expert has been working on a reconstruction of a different kind.”

“Qingchuan is one of Sichuan’s poorest counties. In 2010 the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council published a report on Qingchuan’s pre- and post-earthquake economic situation. “Qingchuan County is located in a remote mountain area, with inconvenient transportation, and is economically impoverished and backward. Before the earthquake, poverty was already substantially worse [in Qingchuan] than in other national poverty alleviation project areas.””

“The Sichuan government said several rail services had been suspended for safety checks, but that it had not received any reports of power being cut off in any parts of the province. It also showed pictures from Qingchuan county, the quake’s epicentre, with everything looking as normal and with no damage.”

“That year when he came to Korea, he was already thirty-one years old. Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam. He did so and brought down some materials. In addition, he paid no heed to danger during the flooding and set up floating bridges three times, victoriously completing his mission. To everyone's sorrow, on May 15th, 1952, our hero, while repairing the Qingchuan River Bridge, was gloriously martyred. His company was named the "Yang Liandi Company".”

Weile Heping

“Goguryeo's General Euljimundeok allowed the Sui army to approach Pyeong'yang, but launched a protracted war of defending the castle. The Sui army, suffering from exhaustion and shortage of supplies, finally retreated. The retreating Sui army suffered a crushing defeat at Sashui (薩水, old name of Qingchuan River, 淸川江), where it was surrounded and attached; only 2,700 Sui soldiers escaped.”

“The Great Wall of North Zhao started in the west from the western frontier of Shanggu County, i.e., the area from the north of Huailai County of today’s Hebei Province, to Dushikou and Luanheyuan. It ended in the east in the eastern frontier of Liaodong Town, i.e., the Qingchuan River drainage area of today’s DPRK.”

Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House

“Since then, Korea started to build castles and moats in the Jurchen community, pushing the frontiers to the upper and middle stretches of the Qingchuan River (Ch'ongch'ongang) and the lower stretches of the Yalu River.”

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