Xinhui
See also: Xīnhuì
English
Alternative forms
- Hsin-hui (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 新會/新会 (Xīnhuì).
Proper noun
Xinhui
- A district of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China.
- 2003 April, Michael Enright, Edith Scott, “Jiangmen”, in The Greater Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong: Invest Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:
- A number of Jiangmen's townships have become highly concentrated production areas. For instance, in 2001, Siqian, in Jiangmen's southern city of Xinhui, produced 80 percent of its industrial value from metal kitchen products.
- 2017 November 19, Huifeng He, “Pearl River Delta’s poorer cities plan big changes in ‘Greater Bay Area’ push”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-19, Policies & Politics:
- The smell of tangerines wafts across Jiangmen’s Xinhui district on a late autumn day, as it has done for centuries.
But ambitious urbanisation plans for the city on the west bank of the Pearl River, part of the Chinese government’s “Greater Bay Area” drive, mean it may not do so for much longer.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xinhui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 3
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