Kuyuan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 固原 (Gùyuán), Wade–Giles romanization: Ku⁴-yüan².

Proper noun

Kuyuan

1. Alternative form of Guyuan
   • 1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement 3‎^[1], British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 17:

     The important experience accumulated by the Party organizations of (Weishui) production brigade in Kuyuan County, (Hsinchu) brigade in Holan County , and (Kulu) brigade in Haiyuan County in earnestly grasping revolution in education, establishing political evening schools and rural schools, raising the consciousness of revolution in education among commune members and the peasant masses, deeping the mass movement of learning from Tachai and in increasing grain production, eloquently proves that instead of hindering production, grasping education can indeed stimulate production.

   • 1978 July 12 [1978 May 3], Shih-lien Huo, “Continue to Firmly Grasp and Implement the Party's Policy on Cadres”, in Translations from Red Flag‎^[2], number 5, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 36:

     In Kuyuan Prefecture in the Liupan Mountains, through which the Workers and Peasants Red Army led by Chairman Mao passed during its Long March, revolution and production were in a backward state for a long time because its leading group was disrupted by agents of the "gang of four" in our region.

   • 1979 March 12, Chün Hsing, “Chinese Bureaucrats Admit Growing Problems in Countryside”, in Intercontinental Press combined with Inprecor‎^[3], volume 17, number 9, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 255, column 3:

     Kuyuan County in Ningsia Province, which in the past was famous for food production, with an output of 820 catties per capita in 1949, decreased to a per capita output of 380 catties in 1977.

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