Lujhu
English
Lujhu District Office, Kaohsiung City
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Lu-chu, Luchu
- (from Hanyu Pinyin) Luzhu
Etymology
From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 路竹 (Lùjhú).
Proper noun
Lujhu
- A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- 2016, Abraham Gerber, “Kaohsiung mayor ignoring public: protesters”, in Taipei Times:
- Protesters from Kaohsiung’s Lujhu (路竹) and Hunei (湖內) districts said the city government failed to promptly publish online that a controversial iron wire and screw factory had passed an environmental review.
- 2018, Lisa Wang, “Winbond to start fab construction”, in Taipei Times:
- “The investment is the largest scale in the history of the park in Kaohsiung’s Lujhu District (路竹), surpassing all capital that has been invested over the past 15 years,” the Kaohsiung Economic Development Bureau said in a statement on Monday.
- 2018, Eryk Smith, “OPINION: Extend the HSR to Pingtung? Let’s Talk After the Election”, in The News Lens:
- Rural north Kaohsiung could use better medical care facilities. Elderly care is a huge need that could benefit from a few billion. Hiring more inspectors to patrol Lujhu’s industrial areas might keep unscrupulous actors from dumping toxic chemicals into streams or other polluting acts.
- 2018, Shih Hsiu-chuan, “Major Kaohsiung mayoral candidates face off in televised debate”, in Focus Taiwan:
- If elected, Chen Chi-mai said, he would establish a one-stop windows for investors to facilitate clusters for semiconductors and smart industries, promote agricultural products in overseas markets, and expand the MRT network to Lujhu and Linyuan districts to close the gap between urban and rural areas in the city.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lujhu.
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Translations
district in southern Taiwan
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