Ningde
English
Alternative forms
- Ning-te (Wade–Giles)
- Ningteh
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧德/宁德 (Níngdé).
Proper noun
Ningde
- A prefecture-level city in Fujian, China.
- [1976, Rewi Alley, “A Visit to Pottery Sites and She People”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 1:
- These 40,000 are a very interesting people who say they once lived in Kwangtung, but who came up to Chekiang through the high hill tops of Fukien where, in Ningteh county in north-eastern Fukien, 134,000 of them now form the largest group in any one place.]
- 2022 May 6, Christoph Steitz, Ben Klayman, “EXCLUSIVE CATL planning EV battery production in United States, vetting sites-sources”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 March 2021, Technology:
- The Ningde, Fujian-based company is ramping up production and its sourcing of minerals to meet growing demand for EVs. Consulting firm Wood Mackenzie has said CATL is on track to more than triple its cell manufacturing capacity by 2025.
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Further reading
- Ningde, Ning-te, Ningte, Ningteh at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ningde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2190, column 1
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