Shijingshan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石景山 (Shíjǐngshān).

Proper noun

Shijingshan

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[1], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1:

     The iron and steel plant of Shih-ching-shan is situated on the Yung-ting Ho, 14 mi. west of the city centre. This plant, first opened in 1920, was completed in 1937 and produced 80,000 tons of pig iron at its peak under Japanese rule. The plant was greatly expanded by the Communists, and annual production increased to more than five times its previous capacity. Beyond Shih-ching-shan, at the end of a rail spur, 20 mi. west of the city centre, are the coal mines of Men-t'ou-kou.]

   • [1978 May 12 [1978 April 26], “Peking Teacher Housing”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[2], volume I, number 93, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page K 6‎^[3]:

     A six-story building was recently completed in Shihchingshan District, Peking Municipality, solving the housing problem for some 130 faculty members of primary and middle schools in the district.]

   • 2008 August 8, Harvey Araton, “In Living Room, a Window Into the Games”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-06, Olympics‎^[5]:

     With the start of the ceremony minutes away Friday night, Zhang’s father had come in from the apartment across the hallway on the second floor of the austere building in the Shijingshan District on Beijing’s West Side.

   • 2021 April 5, Lily Kuo, Lyric Li, “China’s covid vaccine drive is lagging. Free food could help turn things around.”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 April 2021, Asia & Pacific‎^[7]:

     In the Shijingshan neighborhood, vaccinated residents were given free entry into all parks — a measure that some Internet users called “a little stingy.”

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石景山 (zh) (Shíjǐngshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can