Lienchiang
See also: Lien-chiang
English
連江縣衛生局
Lienchiang County Health Bureau
連江縣立醫院
Lienchiang County Hospital
Lienchiang County Health Bureau
連江縣立醫院
Lienchiang County Hospital
Alternative forms
- (also from Wade–Giles) Lien-chiang
- (from pinyin) Lianjiang
- (postal romanization) Lienkiang
Etymology 1
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 連江／连江 (Liánjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lien²-chiang¹.
Pronunciation
- enPR: lyěnʹjyängʹ
Proper noun
Lienchiang
- A county of Taiwan, synonymous with the Matsu Islands.[1]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lienchiang.
- 1963, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, ISSN 0447-8193, OCLC 1640460, page 115:
- Matsu. JCRR in FY1964 continued to provide local farmers with seeds of superior varieties of dryland crops and vegetables, and selected five young farmers for training in cultural techniques in Taiwan. Technical assistance was given by the agricultural experiment station of the Lienchiang County Government.
- 1993, Republic of China Yearbook 1993, Government Information Office, →ISBN, OCLC 1017115740, page 126:
- In 1955, this administration was assigned responsibility for Lienchiang 連江縣, Changle, and Loyuan counties. Military government was reinstated in Matsu in 1956, and various outlying islands were brought under the administration of Lienchiang County.
- 2000, Liang Chieh-teh, Chang Shou-hua, Fang Woei-horng, “Little-known Oriental Bird”, in Oriental Bird Club, number 32, ISSN 0268-9634, OCLC 889413343, page 18:
- A three year project to study bird ecology in the area, coordinated by Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan (formerly Chinese Wild Bird Federation) and financed by Agriculture Improvement Bureau of Lienchiang County began in April 1996 and improved our understanding of the bird fauna.
- 2017 March 20, Makers of Matsu’s unique kaoliang liquor look to tap into foreign markets, Formosa Television, 3:32 from the start:
- Surplus revenues from the Matsu Liquor Factory account for around 45 percent of the money raised directly by the Lienchiang County government every year. That's why County Commissioner Liu Tseng-ying has called for the distillery to double its revenues and profits.
- 2020, Wen Lii, “From Taiwan to the Philippines, Chinese Illegal Dredging Ships Wreak Environmental Havoc”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 12 August 2020, retrieved 25 October 2020:
- On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...]
Wen Lii is director of the Democratic Progressive Party’s newly-launched Lienchiang County Chapter, located on the Matsu Islands, 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian Province. He is an analyst on foreign policy and regional security issues.
- On a clear day, up to hundreds of Chinese dredging ships illegally mining for sand can be spotted from the Matsu Islands. The islands, administered as Lienchiang County by Taipei, are located 200 kilometers from the main island of Taiwan, but only 20 kilometers off the coast of China’s Fujian province. Once on the frontlines of the Cold War between the Communists and the Taiwan-based Nationalists, the islands currently face a different type of threat. People in Matsu are concerned about the increasing numbers of illegal dredgers pumping tons of sand from the seabed, often invading waters within 6,000 meters of the islands, which are considered restricted waters by Taiwan’s coast guard.[...]
- 2021 October 15, Chen, Alicia; Lily Kuo, “Green sky at night over Taiwan’s islands heralds a different kind of squid game”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 15 October 2021:
- “There are at least hundreds of [Chinese] squid boats. It used to be just one or two dots of green, but now you see a complete line of green,” said Lai Wen-Chi, chief of the Fisheries and Husbandry Section of the Lienchiang county government, which oversees Matsu. Lai said vessels, which Taiwan officials say convey fishermen mostly from Fujian province, have surged in number in the past two years, with this year being the worst.[...]
Officials have not raised the issue of the green lights, said Wang Chung Ming, deputy head of Lienchiang county, because the impact would be “very limited.”
- Alternative form of Lianjiang, a river in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- 1916 March 29, C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, Foochow Trade Report (Returns of Trade and Trade Reports 1915), Shanghai: Inspectorate General of Customs, page 954:
- An official was directed to make a preliminary survey for a proposed railway from Foochow to Mamoi (Pagoda Anchorage). A survey bureau was established and the flags of surveying parties were to be seen on the plains and hills in the neighborhood. Various permanent triangulation stations have been established and marked by beacons. Part of the Lienchiang River has been surveyed with a view to dredging.
- 1917, John David Digues La Touche, “Further Notes on the Birds of the Province of Fohkien in South-east China.”, in The Ibis, volume 5, British Ornithologists' Union, page 563:
- Oidemia americana Swainson.
I have a female from the Lienchiang River, near Foochow, dated 5 December, 1914.
- Oidemia americana Swainson.
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- Alternative form of Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- 1924 December 6 [November 24, 1924], “FORCED OPIUM GROWING IN FUKIEN”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CLII, number 2991, Shanghai, OCLC 311405954, page 397, column 3:
- The ten counties are Putien, Sienyu, Futsing, Lienchiang, Loyuan, Ningteh, Fuan, Hsiapo, Shaoning and Futing. The names of the officials and other responsible have in nearly every case been furnished to us, and every case has been reported to the Military and Civil Governors, and in the case of Lienchiang and Futsing a report has also been made to the naval authorities at Pagoda.
- 1952 August 30, “Military Information and Flood Conditions, Foochow Area”, in CIA:
- 4. On 17 July, 3,000 infantry troops with several artillery pieces left Foochow in the direction of Lienchiang (119-31, 26-12).
5. Beginning on 17 July Foochow had heavy rains on consecutive days. By 20 July floods had destroyed many houses, and more than 300,000 persons were distressed.
- 4. On 17 July, 3,000 infantry troops with several artillery pieces left Foochow in the direction of Lienchiang (119-31, 26-12).
- 1956, Army Operations in China, January 1944 - August 1945, Office of the Chief of Military History, page 179:
- The main body of the Chinese 80th Division was entrenched in a series of defenses built at graduating heights encircling the walled city of Fuchou for a distance of approximately eight kilometers. On the morning of 2 October, the 62d Independent Mixed Brigade opened its attack. The battle raged throughout that day and part of the night. By the afternoon of the 3d, however, they had passed through Lingtou and, on the morning of the 4th, having overcome the enemy at Tangling, they advanced toward the Fuchou valley. Later that day they occupied Fuchou. Also on the 4th, the left flank detachment (one infantry battalion) which had advanced southward from Lienchiang, occupied two islands in the mouth of Lien Chiang.
- 1964 May 22, Ralph N. Clough, “Letter From the Charge to the Republic of China (Clough) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Bundy)”, in Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State:
- The Chinese Communist shelling of Matsu on May 16, which clearly seems to have been a reaction to GRC artillery fire from Matsu covering a raiding party launched from Matsu against Lienchiang (FCT 8622), caused me to give consideration to repeating to the GRC the warning we gave them last spring that they should not assume the US would assist the GRC should the Chicoms attack the smaller offshore islands in retaliation for raids mounted by the GRC from such islands.
- 1970 [1678], Simon Rodriguez, Ferdinand Verbiest, “First Expedition of Jesuits from the Philippines to China”, in Charles McCarthy, transl., Philippine Studies, volume 18, number 3:
- But as for the other two Fathers on Tinghai island, they all replied together that they could easily be helped, and be brought to the mainland at night, and be safely deposited in one of the churches which we have in the outskirts of Lienchiang.
- 1973 May 11, “Taiwan Fisherman Compatriots Rescued”, in Peking Review, volume 16, number 19, archived from the original on 12 May 2019, retrieved 10 December 2020, page 4:
- On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.
- 1975, Richard Baum, Prelude to Revolution, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 74-23894, OCLC 1083051144, page 12:
- Clearly, China's aging leader was deeply concerned about the course of economic, political, and ideological developments in his country. That there was indeed a great deal for him to be concerned about has been confirmed in a unique set of official CCP documents captured by the Chinese Nationalists during a 1964 commando raid on the Party headquarters of Lienchiang county, Fukien province.
- 2014, Zhu, Pengli; Feng Huang; Fan Lin; Qiaowei Li; Yin Yuan; Zhonghai Gao; Falin Chen, “The Relationship of Retinal Vessel Diameters and Fractal Dimensions with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Factors”, in PLOS One, volume 9, number 9, DOI:, ISSN 1932-6203, LCCN 2006214532, OCLC 228234657, page 2, column 1:
- The villages of Tailu, Beijiao, and Xiubang in the Tailu township in Lienchiang county and Kungtung, Kunghsi, Yantai, and Wenwo in Haidao township in Xiapu county in Fujian Province were randomly selected for this cross-sectional investigation, which took place from July, 2011 to November, 2011.
- 2015, Wan-yao Chou (周婉窈), Carole Plackitt, Tim Casey, transl., A New Illustrated History of Taiwan, Taipei: SMC Publishing, →ISBN, OCLC 934736311, page 262:
- In 1603, Chʻen Ti from Lienchiang, Fukien, China, followed General Shen Yu-jung in pursuit of pirates and fought against piracy at Tungfan (on the southwest coast of Taiwan).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lienchiang.
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Synonyms
- (postal romanization, from Min Dong) Lienkong
Translations
administrative name for the Matsu Islands; county and river in eastern China
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References
- Matsu Island, in Encyclopædia Britannica: "Matsu is the main island of a group of 19, the Matsu Islands, which constitute Lien-kiang (Lienchiang) hsien (county)."
Etymology 2
From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 廉江 (Liánjiāng), Wade-Giles romanization: Lien²-chiang¹.
Proper noun
Lienchiang
- Alternative form of Lianjiang, a county in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
- 1947 July 22, “Political and Military Information: Communist Activities in South China”, in CIA:
- 6. Chinese Communists are concentrating their activities in southwest Kwangtung in the vicinity of Lienchiang (109-07, 21-33) [110-16, 21-36?] and Huahsien (110-39, 21-38) where they have about 2,000 men and 100 Japanese soldiers.
- 1957, Ygael Gluckstein, Mao's China, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, page 135:
- Peasants of Lienhsien, Kwangtung, used 300,000 catties of grain for wine making and liquor distilling during last autumn; 85 per cent of all households in the hsien were guilty. 1,332 households in the 6th chu, Lienchiang hsien, consumed 76,000 catties of grain for wine making and liquor distilling in a little more than 10 days.
- 1976, Chu-yuan Cheng, China's Petroleum Industry, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, pages 69-70:
- During the first phase of construction much of the investment was concentrated in overhead capital in the form of the Lienchiang-Maoming branch of the Lichan Railway and the Maoming-Sansui branch railway.
- 1981, Li Chen-Chuan, Paul A. Marks, editor, NPC Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Screening for Early Detection (Cancer Research in the People's Republic of China and the United States of America (中美两国的癌症研究)), Grune & Stratton, →ISBN, page 199:
- Different prevalence rates were noted in different parts of Kwangtung Province: 54.8 for Chungshan County in the central part of Kwangtung Province, 23.24 for Chiehyang County in the eastern part and 16.81 for Lienchiang County in the western part, showing an uneven geographic distribution of NPC (Fig.1).
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Translations
Lianjiang — see Lianjiang