Xigong
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西工.
Proper noun[edit]
Xigong
- A district of Luoyang, Henan, China.
- 2007 July 10, “City suburb puts a bounty on flies”, in Reuters[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-19, Oddly Enough[2]:
- Xigong, a district of Luoyang in the central province of Henan, paid out more than 1,000 yuan (65 pounds) for about 2,000 dead flies on July 1, the day it launched the scheme with the aim of encouraging cleanliness in residential areas.
- 2009, The China Legal Development Yearbook[3], volume 2, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 219:
- In another example which took place in 2006, the People's Court of Xigong District, Luoyang City, and Henan Province accepted and tried the first case that a driver filed a suit against the traffic police authorities for traffic signs that were in violation of his rights.
- 2013, Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, The Unbelievable Truth[4], Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:
- In an effort to promote public hygiene, a Chinese city recently offered to buy dead flies from residents at the equivalent of 0.06 cents per fly.
Officials in the Xigong district of Luoyang city instigated the plan. According to Hi[sic – meaning Hu] Guisheng, the district’s administrative director, ‘We think giving people money will be more effective than fining them to keep the city clean.'
- 2018 November 9, Tracy You, “Vintage wine, anyone? 2,000-year-old alcohol is found inside a lavish ancient tomb in China”, in Daily Mail[5], archived from the original on 09 November 2018:
- Researchers at Luoyang Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology were excavating a group of more than 300 ancient tombs in Luoyang's Xigong district when they made the discovery.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xigong.
Translations[edit]
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