Dushanzi

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  1. 1
    A district of Karamay, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    "By mid-1960 track had been laid to within 200 miles of Urumchi; but by mid-1961 it remained uncompleted, possibly because of a lack of steel for rails. From Urumchi, it was planned to extend the line westward past the oilfields at Tushantzu, into the Dzhungarian Gate."

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"By mid-1960 track had been laid to within 200 miles of Urumchi; but by mid-1961 it remained uncompleted, possibly because of a lack of steel for rails. From Urumchi, it was planned to extend the line westward past the oilfields at Tushantzu, into the Dzhungarian Gate."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 獨山子 /独山子 (Dúshānzǐ).

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