Xinhua

See also: Xīnhuá and xīnhuā

English

Alternative forms

• Hsinhua, Hsin-hua (Wade–Giles)
• Sinhua (Tongyong Pinyin)

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新華／新华 (Xīnhuá, literally “New China”).

Proper noun

Xinhua

1. A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
   • 2002 July 19, Tao Yuan, Chen Ying, “Business Booster or Big Brother?”, in Beijing Today‎^[1], number 62, →ISSN, →OCLC, Voice 声音, page 6, column 1:

     In a move hailed by some as a step towards promoting business morality and branded as basically Orwellian by others, the country’s first community credit and reputation file system was launched in the Xinhua district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on March 20, according to a report run in China Youth Daily June 9.

2. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
3. A town in Shennongjia, Hubei, China.
4. XNA; Ellipsis of Xinhua News Agency (“新华社”)., the New China News Agency (新华通讯社). The government news agency of the People's Republic of China.
   • 1978 December 3, “CHINA HUATCHERS KEEP EYE ON BEIJING IN '79”, in The Daily Colonist‎^[2], volume 120, number 292, Victoria, British Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6:

     China's official news agency said Saturday it will adopt the Chinese Pinyin phonetic alphabet beginning Jan. 1, when Peking will become Beijing (pronounced bay-jing) and the agency Xinhua instead of Hsinhua.

   • [1981 April 19, “Yeh, Teng far apart”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XXII, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     The “Hsinhua News Agency,” in a wire report from Canton, said that “Yeh Chien-ying, accompanied by Wang Cheng, member of the politburo, has visited Chuhai and other places in Kwangtung province.”]

   • 2009 November 21, Keith Bradsher, “At Least 92 Die in Chinese Mine Explosion”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 February 2013, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     The explosion took place at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, in Heilongjiang province, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

   • 2021 July 23, “China: Xi visits Tibet for the first time as president”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[6], archived from the original on 23 July 2021, News‎^[7]:

     While in Lhasa, Xi visited a monastery and "inspected ethnic religion" and Tibetan cultural heritage protection, according to Xinhua.

Translations

district; town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新華／新华 (zh) (Xīnhuá)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新化 (Xīnhuà).

Proper noun

Xinhua

1. A county of Loudi, Hunan, China
   • 2021 May 26, “The Tragedy in Small-Town China”, in The New York Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-26‎^[9]:

     By official decree, Langtang is a contented place, a town of 82,000 spread across 24 villages in Hunan Province where extreme poverty has been eliminated, crime is under control and schools are prospering. […]
     But the people of Langtang experience a different reality. Incomes, while rising, remain stubbornly low, around $1,500 a year in the surrounding villages of Xinhua County, compared with the national average of $2,500 in rural areas.

2. Alternative form of Sinhua (Taiwan)
   • 2014, Steven Crook, “A Forgotten Tribe Campaigns for Recognition”, in Taiwan (Bradt Guides)‎^[10], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 223:

     On the face of it, Tainan is ethnically homogeneous. Almost everyone, it seems, is descended from Han Chinese who came to Taiwan two or more centuries ago. That's what most people believe, anyhow. The leaders of the Xinhua-based Siraya Culture Association think otherwise, arguing that many Tainan folk are indigenous even if they don't know it.[...]You won't hear Siraya spoken in Xinhua, but here are a few words to impress - or baffle - the locals: tabe is hello; tatalag means welcome; alid means god, while alilid means to thank.

   • 2017 July 30, Steven Crook, “Handling Snakes and other Nocturnal Adventures in Taiwan’s Forests”, in The News Lens‎^[11], archived from the original on 30 July 2017, Lifestyle:

     Harris grew up in Florida. “There were always snakes around, and I was always very interested in them,” he says. Seeing any snake in Florida was noteworthy, he remembers, but when he goes out herping in the woodlands of Tainan City’s Xinhua District, “with a decent flashlight, you might see a dozen individuals of seven different species. And more than half of them would be venomous.”

   • 2021 August 24, George Liao, “Fruit and vegetable market in southern Taiwan expected to attract tourists”, in Taiwan News‎^[12], archived from the original on 25 August 2021:

     The Tainan City Government is banking on a nearly completed fruit and vegetable market in Xinhua District becoming not only a comfortable environment for shopping but also a tourist magnet.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xinhua.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新化 (zh) (Xīnhuà)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Sinhua — see Sinhua

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinhua”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[13], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 2