Jiulongpo

• (from Wade–Giles) Chiu-lung-p'o

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 九龍坡／九龙坡 (Jiǔlóngpō).

Jiulongpo

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • [1957, Briggs, Ellis O., “Pokey and the Chungking Flying Bat Sweepstake”, in Shots Heard Round the World: An Ambassador's Hunting Adventures on Four Continents‎, New York: Viking Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:

     At the end of the number two priority that stretched from the Potomac across North Africa to India and Burma, the Air Transport Command set me down at Chiulungpo, the muddy airfield of the Nine Dragons of Chungking, in March of 1945.]

   • [1978, Bamford, C. G.; H. Robinson, “Southern and Eastern Asia”, in Geography of Transport‎, MacDonald and Evans, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 178:

     As a result of this drive, the bottleneck at Tienhsing Chow, near-Sha-shih, where silt accumulation in the low-water period impeded movement, has been overcome: the river here is now navigable at all times ; the river bed has been widened, by blasting, from 30 to 60 metres at Kungling, above I-ch’ang, while the institution of navigation lights has permitted night-time navigation and reduced by half the time re- quired to journey from I’ch’ang to Chungking; and two new river ports at Yuhsikou and at Chiulungpo were built during the period of the first Five Year Plan (1953-7.).]

   • 2009, Shen, Honglei (申宏磊), “Link II: Chongqing's "Nail Household"”, in Li Yang (李洋), et al., transl., Press Release & Sunshine Government (新闻发布与阳光执政)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:

     In February 2005 the developer appealed to the Jiulongpo District Housing Administration Bureau for permission to demolish the building.