Changji

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ang-chi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昌吉 (Chāngjí).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒiː/, /t͡ʃɑːŋˈd͡ʒiː/

Changji

1. A Hui autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
   • [1978, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, number 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:

     During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

   • 1998, Linda Benson; Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

     As elsewhere in Xinjiang, the number of Han Chinese throughout the Changji prefecture increased in the late 1950s. Towns and villages all along the main east-west road experienced considerable growth.

   • 2021 January 8, Swanson, Ana; Christopher Buckley, “Chinese Solar Companies Tied to Use of Forced Labor”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 January 2021‎:

     On its public WeChat account, East Hope Group said that it had “responded to the national Western Development Call and actively participated in the development and construction of Xinjiang,” including constructing a polysilicon project in Changji prefecture in 2016, the Horizon report said.

2. A county-level city in Changji, in northern Xinjiang, China.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changji”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 725, column 1