Huining
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Definitions
- 1 A county of Baiyin, Gansu, China.
"My wife used to work in the countryside, but I had her brought into town to look after me, thus turning her into an idle consumer. This is an extremely dangerous trend, and I should emulate the comrades of Huining County, Kansu Province, by returning with my family to my native village to participate in agricultural production."
- 2 Synonym of Hoeryong: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
"The mineral resources of Kirin province have never been adequately studied. They are known to include, however, in addition to the gold and copper now being mined in the T’ien Pao Shan district contiguous to the proposed Huining (Kainei in Japanese) terminus of the Kirin-Tunhua-Huining railway, also aluminum in the valley of the Mutan, north of Tunhua."
Synonyms
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More examples"My wife used to work in the countryside, but I had her brought into town to look after me, thus turning her into an idle consumer. This is an extremely dangerous trend, and I should emulate the comrades of Huining County, Kansu Province, by returning with my family to my native village to participate in agricultural production."
Etymology
From Mandarin 會寧 /会宁 (Huìníng).
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