Daqing
See also: Dàqīng and Dàqìng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Taching, Ta-ch'ing
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 大慶／大庆 (Dàqìng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɑːˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Proper noun
Daqing
- A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
- 1980, Chao, Edward C. T., “Earth Sciences”, in Leo A. Orleans, editor, Science in Contemporary China, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 79-65178, OCLC 7235226, page 208:
- The oil and gas from the giant Daqing oil field are being produced from a broad anticlinal structure in continental Cretaceous formations with minor undulations covering an area of up to 30 km in width and 50 to 60 km in length, trending north northeast.⁶¹ This structure is located in the northern part of the Songliao basin, about 160 km northwest of Haerbin in Heilongjiang province.
- 2010 August 30, “Putin inaugurates Russian section of pipeline to China”, in France 24, archived from the original on 02 September 2010:
- "The Russian part of the project is completed," Putin said at an opening ceremony in Skovorodino in the Far Eastern Amur region in comments published on his official web site.
The branch pipeline will ultimately transport crude oil from Siberia to refineries in the northeastern Chinese city of Daqing.
- 2013, Cox, Robert W., “The Emergence of China”, in Universal Foreigner: The Individual and the World, →ISBN, LCCN 2013005132, OCLC 931022907, page 284:
- From Daqing we took the train to the far north of China at Qiqihaer, described to me as a relatively small Chinese city of about six million people!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daqing.
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Translations
a city of China
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