Paishui

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See also: páishuǐ

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Paishui

  1. Alternative form of Baishui
    • 1976 December 6 [1976 December 2], “SHENSI DAILY Reports on Tachai Movement”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[1], volume I, number 235, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page M 3[2]:
      Paishui County CCP Committee proposed: "We must go all out and aim high. From now to the end of this year, we must work hard to completely fulfill our production tasks, and recoup the losses caused by the interference and sabotage of the 'gang of four.'"
    • 1977, Alexander B. Ikonnikov, The Coal Industry of China[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98:
      The Geological Survey of China wrote in 1945 that at the Hsinsheng Colliery in Shensi Province (a small colliery in Paishui County) "miners hired by a contractor work 12 hour shifts, during which they are not allowed to stop work, except for relieving themselves; they have no days off and only a week's holiday a year" [88, p.325].