Chenjiagang
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ch'en-chia-chiang, Ch'en-chia-kang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 陳家港／陈家港 (Chénjiāgǎng).
Proper noun
Chenjiagang
- A town in Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.
- 2009, Dou Xiping, Li Tilai, Gao Xiangyu, Qu Hongling, “Numerical Model of Oil Spilled During Ship Accident in Guanghe Estuary, China”, in Soon Keat Tan, Zhenhua Huang, editor, Asian And Pacific Coasts 2009, volume 1, →ISBN, OCLC 7079770322, page 322:
- Chenjiagang Power Plant to be built is located at Chenjiagang Town nearby Guanhe River in Jiangsu (Figure 1)....The river section from Chenjiagang to the river mouth is 11km long, with average width of water surface below mean tide level of 820m~1,100m, and natural water depth of 8~11m.
- 2019 March 21, David Stanway, “China chemical plant blast kills 62; Xi orders probe”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 November 2020:
- The blast occurred on Thursday at the Chenjiagang Industrial Park in the city of Yancheng, in Jiangsu province, and the fire was finally brought under control at 3 a.m. local time on Friday (1900 GMT), state television said.
- 2019 March 23, Leng, Sidney; Zhuang Pinghui, “Chinese chemical plant survivors relive horror of ‘earth-shattering’ blast”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 22 March 2019:
- Li Hongmei, a hotel owner from Chenjiagang, said she had seen a three-year-old boy being thrown into the air by the force of the shock wave that had left him visibly terrified.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chenjiagang.
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Translations
town in eastern China
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