Gucheng

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See also: gǔchéng and gùchēng

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 穀城谷城 (Gǔchéng).

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Gucheng

  1. A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
    • [1959 September, Tung Ta-lin [董大林], “Co-operation Preceding Mechanization”, in Agricultural Co-operation in China [中国农业合作化的道路] (China Knowledge Series)‎[1], 2nd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 45:
      Here we may cite the example of the Tungsheng Agricultural Producers’ Co-operative in Kucheng County, Hupeh Province. Nine crops, mostly vegetables, were planted in 1954 on each of the twenty-eight mou singled out. The per-mou yield was 20,000 catties for vegetables and 500 for maize, a yield that could only be obtained from as many as eleven “1,000-catty” mou.]
    • 2007 December, Huanzhi Liu, “New Roads to Prosperity in Central China”, in China Today[2], volume 56, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78:
      The industrialization of tea production in Wushan Town of Gucheng County, Xiangfan City, provides another example of the benefits generated by improved rural roads. The dispersed tea-growing fields in the area are now linked by modern roads, allowing the formation of an integrated tea growing base of 1,700 hectares.
    • 2014, Qingli Meng, “Findings: The Three Stages of Corruption in China”, in Corruption in Transitional China: A 33-Year Study[3], Wolf Legal Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
      The Party Secretary and the Mayor of Gucheng County, Hubei Province were removed from their positions for using public funds to buy expensive cars within their administrative jurisdictions.

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