Yongshan
See also: yòngshàn
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 永善.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɔŋ.ʃæn/
Proper noun
Yongshan
- A county of Zhaotong, Yunnan, China.
- 2001, Chang, Gordon G., “Roads to Ruin: How the State Will Fall”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 00-054782, OCLC 45636911, page 270:
- Du, the Party boss of Yongshan County in Yunnan Province, went drinking one afternoon and evening in July 2000 in the town of Jingxin with other cadres after finishing a Three Stresses meeting, held to improve internal Party discipline. He and his colleagues spent in one afternoon and evening what the average household of four in his poor rural county earns in a full year.
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Translations
county
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