Huanglong
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黃龍／黄龙 (Huánglóng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhwɑŋ lɔŋ/, /-lɒŋ/
Proper noun
Huanglong
- A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
- [1971, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, number 105-126, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, ISSN 0892-0141, OCLC 1113433:
- The members of the medical team in the Shancha pecple's commune of Huanglung County try Chinese medicinal herbs and […] ]
- 2006, Lam, Willy Wo-Lap (林和立), Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges, Routledge, →ISBN, OCLC 1048941065, page :
- However, there were quite a large number of villages, especially in poor areas, where eight or nine peasants had to support one local-level cadre. This was true in impoverished Huanglong County in Shaanxi. While Huanglong is a small county with only 40,000¥odd people, it has more than 4,400 cadres and civil servants working in 308 departments. In the early years after "liberation" in 1949, however, the comparative ratio was only twenty-eight farmers to one official.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huanglong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1322, column 3