Jiuquan
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Definitions
- 1 A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
"There is considerable evidence that China is pushing its nuclear program in this area. Much of what goes on here, particularly around a wind-swept old oasis town named Chiuchuan (Liquor Springs), is known only to a few select planners — and perhaps to the distant American and Chinese specialists who evaluate the contents of monitoring devices borne by American-built U-2s flown from Taiwan."
Example
More examples"There is considerable evidence that China is pushing its nuclear program in this area. Much of what goes on here, particularly around a wind-swept old oasis town named Chiuchuan (Liquor Springs), is known only to a few select planners — and perhaps to the distant American and Chinese specialists who evaluate the contents of monitoring devices borne by American-built U-2s flown from Taiwan."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán).
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