Dushanzi
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Tu-shan-tzu
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 獨山子／独山子 (Dúshānzǐ).
Proper noun
Dushanzi
- A district of Karamay, Xinjiang, China.
- [1962, Jackson, W. A. Douglas, “Sino-Soviet Relations and the Communist Revolution”, in The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?, 2nd edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., published 1968, LCCN 68-9548, OCLC 1043958130, OL 19844604M, page 91:
- By mid-1960 track had been laid to within 200 miles of Urumchi; but by mid-1961 it remained uncompleted, possibly because of a lack of steel for rails. From Urumchi, it was planned to extend the line westward past the oilfields at Tushantzu, into the Dzhungarian Gate.]
- 1979, Donald H. McMillen, Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977, Westview Press, →ISBN, LCCN 78-24645, OCLC 470949538, page 7:
- Petroleum is by far the most important fuel resource in Xinjiang. Initial commercial petroleum production dates from about 1940, when the relatively small Dushanzi field was developed, largely by the Soviets, some fifteen miles southeast of Wusu, a highway junction west of Urumqi.
- [1987, Hasiotis, Jr., Arthur C., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, LCCN 87-8368, OCLC 242282432, page 127:
- On February 16, 1944, China and Russia signed the Resource Sale Agreement, by which the USSR sold all its buildings and facilities at the Tu-shan-tzu oil fields to China for $1.7 million (U.S. dollars).]
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Synonyms
- Maytag
Translations
district of Karamay, Xinjiang, China
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