Gujiao

See also: gùjiāo

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古交 (Gǔjiāo).

Proper noun

Gujiao

1. A county-level city in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
   • [1961, “Taiyuan Municipal People's Council Seriously Handles the Suggestions of the People's Delegates”, in Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[1], numbers 2549-2569, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:

     The masses in Kuchiao area organized groups to hunt on the mountains. But, they did not have fowling-pieces and ammunition. When the delegates put forward their demand for these things, 30 guns, 3,000 bullets and 1,000 kilograms of explosives were promptly supplied by the quarters concerned.]

   • [1978 November 3, “Tentative Plan for Chinese Coal Field Joint Ventures Formulated”, in The Japan Times‎^[2], International Airmail edition, volume 82, number 28676, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 6:

     According to sources close to Japanese colliery companies and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the plan, based on a Chinese proposal made last month, calls for the development of a steam coal mine in the Yanchow area of Shantung Province and a coking coal mine in the Kuchiao area of Shansi Province.]

   • 1981 July, Tianshen Wen, “Shanxi Province- China's Largest Coal Base”, in China Reconstructs‎^[3], volume XXX, number 7, →OCLC, page 16:

     In Taiyuan, the provincial capital, I was told that a new field of high-quality coking coal was being developed in Gujiao, 56 kilometers away.[...]This was intriguing, and I left for Gujiao by bus, accompanied by a comrade from the provincial coal bureau. We first crossed the Luliang mountains, 1,800 meters above sea level. In the valley, a 47-kilometer electric railway has been built, running through 18 tunnels and over seven bridges across the winding Fenhe River. The Xiqu mine in Gujiao, with a capacity of 3 million tons annually, has begun to take shape.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古交 (Gǔjiāo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gujiao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 2