Xiantao
See also: xiāntáo
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Hsien-t'ao
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation for 仙桃 (Xiāntáo).
Proper noun
Xiantao
- A sub-prefectural city in Hubei, China.
- 1981 July, Alley, Rewi, “Flood Strikes again in Hubei”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XX, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 13:
- Wuhan grows steadily, changing its face quite a bit each year one comes. Hanyang spreads out, and Mianyang, where we halted for a meal and rest, at its county town of Xiantao, which is now becoming a modern city.
- 2001 February, Hattaway, Paul, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, OCLC 43922815, OL 9183612M, page 100:
- Residing on the banks of the Hanshui River in south-central Hubei Province are more than 1.8 million inhabitants of Xiantao City. The central city area itself may only have about 250,000 people, but Xiantao has jurisdiction over a number of sprawling suburbs and surrounding villages which pushes its population up. Because of improved roads, Xiantao is now only a 50-minute drive from the provincial capital, Wuhan.
- 2016 June 27, Rajagopalan, Megha, “China city shuts down waste-burning plant project over protests”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 June 2016:
- The mayor of a city in central China made a rare public address calling for calm after thousands of people protested against a waste incineration project over fears it would damage the environment and residents' health. […]
The city of Xiantao, in Hubei province, said on Sunday it would suspend the project but protests continued on Monday.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiantao.
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Translations
sub-prefecture-level city in central China
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