Longde
English
Map including Longde (DMA, 1988)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 隆德 (Lóngdé).
Proper noun
Longde
- A county of Guyuan, Ningxia, China.
- [1914, Hosie, Alexander, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, OCLC 3633929, page 146:
- For fifteen miles, as far as the district city of Lung-te Hsien, the road runs direct east up a valley and was in excellent condition.]
- 2004, Ho, Peter, Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture, →ISBN, ISSN 1462-219X, LCCN 2003011126, OCLC 493233680, OL 9887791M, page 189:
- In a personal interview with Prof. Chen Zhongxiang from Ningxia University in September 1999 I was told that 85 per cent of the budget of Longde county come from taxes of its suspended village Chahu in Pingluo county.
- 2016 February 26, “Villagers perform Yangko in NW China to mark Lantern Festival”, in China Daily, archived from the original on 06 February 2020:
- Villagers perform Yangko, a Chinese rural folk dance, to celebrate the coming Lantern Festival in Longde County, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Feb 21, 2016.
- 2020, “Claims in Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation in China: Problems and Solutions”, in Sustainability and Law: General and Specific Aspects, DOI:, →ISBN, OCLC 1138669193, page 394:
- In a water pollution case of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) v. Longde County People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and other eight defendants, the plaintiff CBCGDF claimed that Longde County Government was negligent in supervision and tolerated for a longtime local enterprises to discharge pollutants into the river, resulting in pollution of the drinking water source in the downstream of Jingning County.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Longde.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Longde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1775, column 3