Meaning of Xinyizhou | Babel Free

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Synonym of Sinuiju: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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“An-tung is the provincial capital and has a population of 250,000. It is situated on the north bank of the Yalu River. A railway bridge crosses the river at this point to Hsin-i-chou on the Korean side.”

東北日報

“The delegation of P'ing-an Pei-tao and Hsin-i-chou municipality led by Li Ken-ho (2621 2704 3109), the vice chairman of the people's council of Hsin-i-chou municipality, P'ing-an Pei-tao, the Korean Democratic People's Republic, attache Cheng Feng-kuei (6774 7685 3802) of the Korean Embassy in China, and the Korean comrades in Tan-tung attended the meeting upon invitation.[…] Chief delegate Li Ken-ho gave a speech upon request under loud applauses. He said that Hsin-i-chou and Tan-tung were connected not only geographically, but also by the common ideology and common struggle goal of the people of the two nations.”

人民日報

“Comprehensive top-level leadership talks in Simuiju^([sic – meaning Sinuiju]) [Xinyizhou] between Communist China and North Korea, which came about with the unofficial visit of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, are becoming the object of considerable interest, as international interest in the Korean peninsula is higher now than at any time in the past.”

“Dandong Border Economic Cooperation Zone, at State level, was approved by the State Council in July 1992. The zone is at the Yellow Sea estuary in the northeast of Heilongjiang province. 23.57 sq km are under the zone's control. The zone backs on to the bustling old city area, facing Xinyizhou in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the sea. It has bright prospects for investment and commerce.”

“May 1 Japanese army (which had landed in Korea in March), attacks and defeats Russian army at Xinyizhou.”

“His troops had no identification of any sort, and the Soviet garrison commander in Xinyizhou (located in North Korea, across the river from Andong) could not be confident that this band of armed men was not a force of bandits or a stray unit of the former Manchukuo puppet army.”

“In September, 2002, Xinyizhou was designated by the North Korean government as a special administrative region.”

“Nevertheless, the DPRK leadership has thought about reform and openness for decades, and has made some relatively small and exemplary attempts: Kim Jong Il visited high-tech zones in Beijing and Shanghai; officials of the DPRK have taken "observation and learning" trips to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in southern China; and North Korea has set up its own "special zones" in the Jingang Mountain area bordering South Korea, and in the Xinyizhou (Sinuiju) area bordering China.”

“In 1984, the practice of visiting Hong Kong and Macao was extended to all other provinces in China. Permission for travel to Hong Kong and Macao at the time was a landmark event heralding the start of Chinese outbound market (China National Tourism Administration, 1998). Almost at the same time border travel began in 1984 between Dandong in Liaoning province in China and Xinyizhou in North Korea. Both parties exchanged tour groups to have one-day friendship visits. The governments of both sides provided funding for this kind of visit. Soon afterwards an agreement was reached between the tourism administrations of the two countries that tourists themselves must pay for all travel expenses.”

“Once an obscure port tucked away in the corner of Liaoning province at the confluence of the Yalu River and the Yellow Sea, DANDONG (丹东, dāndōng) is now a popular weekend destination for Chinese, who come to gaze across the border into North Korea – the listless Korean city of Sinuiju (Xinyizhou in Chinese) lies on the other side of the Yalu River.”

“There are two major cities in this region, Dandong city, China, with a population of 2.46 million people, and Xinyizhou city, North Korea, with a population of 0.352 million people.”

“Additionally, with the development of border tourism, cooperative relations with China have been continuously deepened. In 2011, the self-driving tour from Yanbian, Jilin, China to Rason, North Korea started [5]. In 2016, a half-day landed tour from Dandong, Liaoning to Xinyizhou was opened [6]. In 2018, because of departure procedures have been simplified, the tourists can travel from Hunchun, Jilin to Rason in half day [7].”

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