Pin-yin

The government of the People’s Republic of China has developed its own romanization system, known as the “Pin-yin,” which is widely used in the communist world but rarely used in the West.

The Pin-yin system of transliteration of Chinese names is adopted here because it conforms to the modern Chinese practice of using standard Mandarin rather than dialects such as Cantonese.

Shih-chia-chuang, Pin-yin romanization SHI-JIA-ZHUANG, a city in west central Hopeh Province (sheng), China, a subprovincial-level municipality, an administrative centre of the Shih-chia-chuang Area ti-ch’ü), and the administrative capital of Hopeh Province.