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Meaning of Shenqiu | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˌʃʌnˈt͡ʃjoʊ/

Definitions

A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.

Examples

“The proper relationship between the Revolutionary Committees and party committees was outlined by Honan radio on 13 January 1970 on the experience of the party branch committee of the Shen-ch’iu County post office. According to the report, several leaders had initially “failed to treat the relationship between the party branch and the Revolutionary Committee correctly, so that the party branch was unable to play its proper role as the core."”
“In the Symposium on the Work of Social Relief in Nineteen Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions held in Shenchiu County, Honan Province, in November 1983, it was said that the work of supporting the poor had been developed by over 31,000 people's communes in 1,814 counties in mainland China.”
“Mr. Wang, whose roost was a rural county called Shenqiu in Henan Province in central China, is now under arrest, but other local tycoons are thriving outside the law. Central Authorities Alarmed Shenqiu County is closed to foreigners, and the authorities rejected a reporter's request to visit there. But the central authorities are clearly alarmed that local officials repeatedly defied outside investigators, and some fear that the Shenqiu affair represents decentralization gone berserk.”
“In Shenqiu county, citizens fought the flood by building a dike. But the hastily constructed structure could not contain the floodwater, which overflowed the banks every year, forcing local residents to make annual repairs.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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