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Meaning of Yunghsing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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Alternative spelling of Yongxing.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“[…]islands to aid in the establishment of Chinese administrative authority there, AP reports from Nanking. Two islands of the group will bear the names of Yunghsing and Taiping and the Ministry of the Interior has been instructed to solemnize the renaming of the islands with an announcement to the public.”
“Radio Peiping said one plane had "intruded into China's territorial air space" over Yunghsing, Pei and Shu Islands in the Hsisha Islands, Kwangtung Province, and another over Tung Island in the Hsisha.”
“A United States Navy patrol plane today violated Communist China's air space, Radio Peking charged in a broadcast heard here. The broadcast said the alleged violation occured over Yunghsing Island in the Hsisha group off the Southern China province of Kwangtung. Peking said the Chinese foreign ministry issued the "62nd warning regarding provocation by United States military aircraft" as a result of the alleged vilolation^([sic – meaning violation]).”
“A patrol plane of the U.S. Navy intruded over Yunghsing, Chung and Pei islands, Kwangtung Province, this morning, Radio Peking reported. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized to give the sixty-third serious warning regarding the military provocation by U.S. military aircraft.”
“Today's intrusion, the spoekman said, followed "immediately after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued on May 11 its 95th serious warning against the intrusion of a U. S. naval patrol airplane into China's air space over Yunghsing Island in the Hsisha Islands, Kwangtung province."”
“China charged that U.S. military planes intruded in Chinese territorial air on two occasions Saturday and immediately issued a warning, its 104th, against "military provocations." The New China News Agency said the first plane intruded over the Yunghsing, Shih and Pei Islands in the Hsisha island group, Kwangtung provience^([sic – meaning province]), between 9:55 a.m. and 10:04 a.m.”
“Peiping radio claimed an American naval patrol plane “intruded” Saturday night over Communist China - held Yunghsing and Shin islands in the Paracel Islands off mainland south China. A spokesman for Peiping's Foreign Ministry, the broadcast said, was authorized to issue what it described as the "128th serious warning against this military provocation by a U.S. military aircraft."”
“Communist China charged Friday that a U.S. military plane intruded into Red air space and issued its "249th serious warning" against such alleged incidents, the New China news agency said. The news agency said that the American plane intruded into "China's territorial air over the Yunghsing, Pei and Shu islands of the Hsisha Island group in Kwangtung Province this afternoon."”
“In the South China Sea are four groups of islands: the Tungsha, the Sisha, the Chungsha and the Nansha, all coral in origin. They are fairly small, the 1.85 square-kilometre Yunghsing Island being the largest in the Sisha group.”

A Concise Geography of China

“Radio Peking said one plane intruded over territorial waters east of Namoa Island and another near Yunghsing Is­land, both off the coast of the southern province of Kwangtung.”
“A U.S. military plane intruded over China's territorial waters in the area east of Namoa Island in Kwangtung Province between 0840 and 0846 on 27 February. Between 1117 and 1121 on the same day another U.S. military plane intruded into China's territorial air space over the Yunghsing Island of the Hsish^([sic – meaning Hsisha]) Islands in Kwangtung Province. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized in relation to these provocations by the U.S. military planes, to issue the 451st serious warning.”
“The other day, following the latest "U. S. air intrusion," Peking radio announced, "A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized, in relation to the military provocation by U. S. military plane, to issue the 49th serious warning. The plane insolently intruded China's air space over the area of Yunghsing Island and Tung Island in the Kwangtung Province between 13:06 hours and 13:26 hours."”
“Militiawomen on the island of Yunghsing in the Hsisha Islands in combat practice.”
“Yunghsing, the biggest of the Hsisha Islands.”

中国地理简况

“In July 1990, China completed the construction of a major airstrip on Woody Island (Yunghsing Island), the largest of the Paracel archipelago. The runway was reported to be 2,600 meters long and could accommodate any aircraft of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).”
“South Vietnam's navy stopped Chinese fishing vessels off Hsisha, also known as the Paracel Islands, twice in February 1959. Vietnamese marines went ashore and arrested 160 Chinese fishermen on one of the islands. Beijing lodged strong protests on February 27, and Saigon had to release all the captives on March 9. A Chinese frigate and a submarine visited Yunghsing or Woody Island, the largest of the Paracels, later in March. The navy set up a land office on the island to coordinate patrols over the waters of the Macclesfield Bank and the Paracel and Spratly Islands.[…] Saigon fell in April 1975, and the North Vietnamese invaded the Paracels, occupying five islets. Yunghsing, however, wasn't invaded. Hanoi also claimed sovereignty over the Paracels and the Spratlys on May 15. Taipei reiterated on March 19 and May 12 that the Paracels and the Spratlys are part of the "traditional" territory of the Republic of China.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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