Huanglong

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黃龍黄龙 (Huánglóng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhwɑŋ lɔŋ/, /-lɒŋ/

Proper noun

Huanglong

  1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • [1971, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, number 105-126, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      The members of the medical team in the Shancha pecple's commune of Huanglung County try Chinese medicinal herbs and []]
    • 2006, Lam, Willy Wo-Lap (林和立), Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :
      However, there were quite a large number of villages, especially in poor areas, where eight or nine peasants had to support one local-level cadre. This was true in impoverished Huanglong County in Shaanxi. While Huanglong is a small county with only 40,000¥odd people, it has more than 4,400 cadres and civil servants working in 308 departments. In the early years after "liberation" in 1949, however, the comparative ratio was only twenty-eight farmers to one official.

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