Qijiang

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綦江 (Qíjiāng).

Proper noun

Qijiang

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • [1973 October 30 [1973 October 29], Radio Chengtu, “Settlement of Young People Underway in Szechwan Countryside”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 209, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 4; republished as “Adapting to Rural Life: Problems and Remedies”, in Thomas P. Bernstein, editor, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China‎^[2], Yale University Press, 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 154-155:

     In Szechwan UY housing was defined as "a long-term item of capital construction."¹¹⁴ A provincial conference was held in 1973 on the financial problems of UY settlement, in which the county authorities were evidently asked to supply building materials, for the same report goes on to say that "Chichiang County CCP Committee has provided 300 cubic meters of timber for the educated youths to build houses."¹¹⁵]

   • 2003 October 29, “13 dead in China mine accident”, in CNN‎^[3], archived from the original on 29 April 2022‎^[4]:

     Six miners escaped Tuesday's accident in Qijiang county, an official at the Chongqing coal mine administration bureau told Reuters. Thirteen were killed and one was missing.

   • 2022, L. Jia, “Chongqing Aosi Lidu Entertainment Co., Ltd.”, in Selected Cases from the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China‎^[5], volume 3, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88:

     On October 26, 2011, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality instructed the People's Court of Qijiang District to enforce rulings on the case. The People's Court of Qijiang District issued an announcement on December 30, 2011, requiring the tenant to vacate the premises.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綦江 (zh) (Qíjiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Qijiang, Ch'i-chiang, Chi-chiang, Chichiang at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qijiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 1