Gujiao
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 古交 (Gǔjiāo).
Proper noun
Gujiao
- A county-level city in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
- [1961, “Taiyuan Municipal People's Council Seriously Handles the Suggestions of the People's Delegates”, in Survey of China Mainland Press, number 2549-2569, ISSN 0499-0390, OCLC 1695580, page 11:
- The masses in Kuchiao area organized groups to hunt on the mountains. But, they did not have fowling-pieces and ammunition. When the delegates put forward their demand for these things, 30 guns, 3,000 bullets and 1,000 kilograms of explosives were promptly supplied by the quarters concerned.]
- 1981 July, Wen, Tianshen, “Shanxi Province- China's Largest Coal Base”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXX, number 7, OCLC 985530765, page 16:
- In Taiyuan, the provincial capital, I was told that a new field of high-quality coking coal was being developed in Gujiao, 56 kilometers away.[...]This was intriguing, and I left for Gujiao by bus, accompanied by a comrade from the provincial coal bureau. We first crossed the Luliang mountains, 1,800 meters above sea level. In the valley, a 47-kilometer electric railway has been built, running through 18 tunnels and over seven bridges across the winding Fenhe River. The Xiqu mine in Gujiao, with a capacity of 3 million tons annually, has begun to take shape.
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Translations
county-level city
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