Meaning of Yichang | Babel Free

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A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.

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“To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the investigators, from Neolithic to Han.”

“Ships of over 1,000 tons today can make the 680-kolometer round trip between Yichang and Chungking in 5 or 6 days, instead of 10 to 15 days formerly, thanks to the enormous amount of work done after liberation to make this most perilous section of the Yangtze River safe for navigation.”

“HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port. [...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union. [...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated. [...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang. [...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm.”

“Images of an apparently twisted Three Gorges dam surfaced on social media last week, fuelling online concerns that the dam was posing a disastrous flooding threat to downstream towns and villages. However, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the circulated satellite images were fake and posted its own picture showing a straight dam spanning the river near Yichang in the central province of Hubei. “Nothing wrong with the Three Gorges Dam,” the company declared.”

“Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges".”

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