Jiulongpo
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Chiu-lung-p'o
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 九龍坡／九龙坡 (Jiǔlóngpō).
Proper noun
Jiulongpo
- A district of Chongqing, China.
- [1978, Bamford, C. G.; H. Robinson, “Southern and Eastern Asia”, in Geography of Transport, MacDonald and Evans, →ISBN, OCLC 925231538, page 178:
- As a result of this drive, the bottleneck at Tienhsing Chow, near-Sha-shih, where silt accumulation in the low-water period impeded movement, has been overcome: the river here is now navigable at all times ; the river bed has been widened, by blasting, from 30 to 60 metres at Kungling, above I-ch’ang, while the institution of navigation lights has permitted night-time navigation and reduced by half the time re- quired to journey from I’ch’ang to Chungking; and two new river ports at Yuhsikou and at Chiulungpo were built during the period of the first Five Year Plan (1953-7.).]
- 2009, Shen, Honglei (申宏磊), “Link II: Chongqing's "Nail Household"”, in Li Yang (李洋), et al., transl., Press Release & Sunshine Government (新闻发布与阳光执政), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 797981974, OL 32960699M, page 66:
- In February 2005 the developer appealed to the Jiulongpo District Housing Administration Bureau for permission to demolish the building.
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Translations
district
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