Zhashui

See also: Zhàshuǐ

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柞水 (Zhàshuǐ).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jäʹshwāʹ

Proper noun

Zhashui

  1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
    • 2014, Mark Moody-Stuart, Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics, Greenleaf Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 237:
      The book’s impressive statistics have a very human face, which I was able to see in 2007 on a visit to Zhashui County in Shaanxi Province with Lu Mai, the Secretary-General of the China Development Research Foundation, who plays a key role in organising the China Development Forum. Shaanxi is not a particularly poor province, but Zhashui County, located in the southern mountainous area, has an average annual per capita income of ¥1,300 ($188).
    • 2015 August 14, “Drunk Man Smashes 16 Cars After Scolding”, in Beijing Today, number 740, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
      Police in Zhashui County, Shaanxi province were notified of 16 cars being maliciously smashed on Hexi Road in late July.
    • 2021 April 23, “‘A Date with China’ media tour kicks off in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2023-04-14:
      “A Date with China”, an international media tour with the theme of “On Road to Prosperity”, kicked off Monday morning in Zhashui county, Shangluo city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province. []
      “Families and individuals in many poverty-stricken regions in China like Zhashui county have shed off poverty and led well-off lives. This transformation of their destinies is a miracle from China’s fight against poverty,” he added.

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