Meaning of Taoyuan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city in northwestern Taiwan, formerly a county.
2. A district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan, formerly a rural township.
3. A district of Taoyuan, in northwestern Taiwan.
4. A county of Changde, in northern Hunan, China.

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“One of the first 4-H members receives an official club banner during the inaugural meeting in Taoyuan.”

“An international seminar entitled "Land Consolidation: Its Potential for New Urbanization at the Rural Fringe" began June 7 at Taoyuan in northern Taiwan.”

“Chen Shui-bian has been transferred from a detention center, in which he was held for over 700 days, to a prison in Taoyuan, right outside of Taipei.”

“Unlike many influential politicians in Taiwan and elsewhere, Lu Hsiu-lien does not come from an elite family. Her father, Lu Shi-sheng, ran a medium-size shop in the city of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan, and her mother Lu Huang-chin, had more children than she could financially support.”

“Taiwan carried out an unprecedented military drill Tuesday, a day ahead of its National Day celebrations, in Taoyuan in northern parts of the country. The drill was attended by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen, and President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benitez, who is on a state visit to Taiwan until Thursday.”

“After Yu Hsin-Hsien was elected to the City Council that year in Taoyuan, a city near Taipei, mysterious strangers began inquiring about buying his Facebook page, which had around 280,000 followers. Mr. Yu, 30, immediately suspected China.”

“The important mining center Paoking is connected with Siangtan by a road through Hsiang Hsiang. It is also connected with Yuanchow by way of Wukang and with Changteh by way of Hsin Hua, An Hua, and Taoyuan.”

“By December 4 the advance upon Changsha had come to a standstill. After several days' indecisive fighting around Changteh and the town of Taoyuan, 15 miles to the west, which had been taken by the enemy after a heavy air raid supported by parachutists on November 21, the Japanese retreated northwards.”

“At 1600 on 21 November 1943 Japanese paratroopers attacked Taoyuan, Hunan, as a phase of their Tungting Lake campaign.”

“Sung Chiao-jen was born into a lower gentry household in T’ao-yüan County, Hunan. At the local Chang-chiang Academy, he is reported to have shown interest in statecraft, textual criticism, and neo-Confucian self-cultivation.”

“The frequent ceremonies, which are meant to release the souls of the dead from purgatory, come as China’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic spreads further into its rural, more vulnerable areas. “It has never been this many all at once,” said a 24-year-old visiting her home village in Taoyuan County, in the southern province of Hunan, for the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday.”

“On the heavily guarded airbase at Taoyüan near Taipei in the north of Taiwan at least three RB-57Ds were stationed, adorned with fresh national emblems of the Taiwanese Air Force.[...]Returning to Taoyüan from a spy mission over the north of China, he started to descend earlier than was necessary.”

Aerial Espionage: Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West

“One explanation for the heavy casualties suffered by the U-2s flying to or from Taoyüan, amounting to five planes, was the difficulty in concealing the aircraft movements, especially takeoffs, from an airfield only 90 miles from the Chinese coast and under constant hostile radar and signals surveillance.[...]Another complication was the duration of the U-2 flights flown to or from Taoyüan, which might take up to 12 hours to complete a 3,000-mile round-trip, and the fact that some target areas, such as the nuclear installations in the far northeast, could not be reached from the airfields in India and Pakistan.”

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