Citations:Sanming

English citations of Sanming

• 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map‎^[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:

  The Southeast uplands are generally poor in mineral resources, but coal and iron were evidently abundant enough to justify the construction of a medium-size integrated iron and steel plant in Fukien at Sanming during the Great Leap. Coal for the Sanming operation is mined in the Changping-Lungyen district and iron ore at nearby Hwaan.

• 1976, Hung-ying Liao, “My Old Home Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

  In 1959, on my way to Changting from Sanming in north Fukien, the bus stopped at an eating place and I got into conversation with a young woman at the same table.

• 1988, Paul Theroux, “The Night Train to Xiamen: Number 375”, in Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China‎^[3], G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 410–411:

  A young woman had just finished her dancing class and was on her way home when I accosted her. She was Wan Li, a cadre at the economics ministry. She had gone to the Dalian Foreign Language Institute (she hadn't met Cherry Blossom there, unfortunately) but she had been raised in the central Fujian town of Sanming. That town had the reputation in China of being somewhat utopian. It had been developed by people from all over China, before the Cultural Revolution. Miss Wan claimed that everything that had been said about Sanming was true—no problems, no pollution, perfect integration, a model city.
  "Any Tibetans in Sanming?"
  "No," Miss Wan said. "They have to stay in Tibet and solve their own problems. But people in Sanming are very civilized. They are from all places. Like the United States!"

• 1996, C. Y. Chang, “Government and Politics”, in Brian Hook, editor, Fujian: Gateway to Taiwan (Regional Development in China)‎^[4], volume 2, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:

  According to statistics, not only the urban population but the population of nearby counties enjoys a net increase in disposable income. Net savings have also substantially increased. For instance, the population of Sanming accumulated a total savings of RMB 880 million, an increase of 8.2 times as compared with 1980.³⁷ Putian had total savings of RMB 441 million, a 10.2-fold increase over 1978.³⁸ Xiamen, Fujian’s most dynamic city had per capita savings of RMB 768, two times more than Sanming and Putian.³⁹

• 2007 December 15, David Barboza, “Chinese fish farmers face polluted waters”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 February 2024, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

  The drive 280 kilometers west of Fuqing leads into the lush subtropical mountains of Fujian Province, where some of China's richest bamboo and timber reserves can be found. There, near the city of Sanming, Fuqing eel producers have built a collection of aquaculture farms, huge cement tubs wedged into the mountainside, covered by black tarps and stocked with millions of eels.
  "This costs a lot more up here, but we had to do it," said Zheng Qiuzhen, a longtime Fuqing eel producer who now operates near Sanming. "We had to do something about the water problems."

• 2018 December 20, Hallie Gu, Tom Daly, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Fujian province”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 20 December 2018, Health News‎^[8]:

  The outbreak in Sanming city in Fujian killed 27 animals on a farm of 11,950 pigs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement on its website.