Meaning of Taian | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“After five or six days in Beijing and Datong, head south to Taian in Shandong Province -- again by train, the means of locomotion for most Chinese traveling between cities. One of your short rail journeys in China should be by hard seat, the cheapest class, which is how ordinary Chinese travel, but the nine-hour journey from Beijing to Taian is not the one to spend jammed in an uncomfortable railroad car as people spit on the floor and converse raucously about the large size of foreigners' noses. Taian is the town at the base of Mount Tai, or Taishan as the holy mountain is called in Chinese.”

“In recent months they have been targeted by a government crackdown on illicit oil quota trading and irregular fuel tax practices. read more The MEE also found the cities of Jining and Taian had illegally launched coke projects with annual capacities of 2.6 million and 4 million tonnes, respectively.”

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