Dianjiang

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江垫江 (Diànjiāng).

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Dianjiang

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • 2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2022, Asia Pacific‎[2]:
      State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.
    • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine[3], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:
      In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.

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