Xiuyu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀嶼／秀屿 (Xiùyǔ).

Xiuyu

1. A district of Putian, Fujian, China.
   • 1987 February 3 [1986 July 5], Zhiqin Wang, Wang Yang, “SOLVING FUJIAN'S GRAIN PROBLEM: "The Crux of the Grain Problem in Fujian and How To Deal With It"”, in China Report Economic Affairs‎, volume JPRS-CEA-87-007, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 87:

     Since we mainly rely on shipping grain into southern Fujian by sea, we could construct modern docks and warehouses for grain at the ports of Xiamen, Jinzhou, Xiaocuo, and Putian Xiuyu, and organize a special shipping brigade to transport grain in, and to ship out cane sugar, fruits, aquatic products, and special local products.

   • 2007, The Journal of Offshore Technology‎, volume 15, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     Located at Xiuyu, Putian, to the north of Meizhou Bay, the designed capacity for Phase 1 is 2.6Mt pa, with two LNG tanks each with a capacity of 145 000m².

   • 2007 October 24, Raymond Li, “Dozens still missing in Fujian shoe factory fire”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 2023-06-07‎:

     At least 37 people died in the blaze at the Feida workshop in Putian's Xiuyu district, which broke out at 9.50pm on Sunday, and 19 others were seriously injured, Xinhua reported.

   • 2013, Rongxing Guo, Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

     The Wuchiu (Wuqiu) Islands are nominally administered in the PRC by the Xiuyu District of the Putian prefecture, but are in reality controlled by the Republic of China, which administers Wuchiu (Wuqiu) as part of Quemoy (Jinmen) County.

   • 2017, 吴重庆 [Wu Chongqing], “Preface”, in 孙村的路：后革命时代的人鬼神 [The Path to Sun Village: Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-Revolutionary Society]‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page XI:

     Sun Village now belongs to Wusheng Administrative Village (武盛村) in Daitou Township (埭头镇) of Xiuyu District (秀屿区).

   • 2020 November 23, “Chinese Government Tells Churches to Worship the Communist Party or be Closed”, in Christian Broadcasting Network‎, archived from the original on 11/23/2020:

     The magazine Bitter Winter reports the government's religious affairs department of Putian spent around $75,000 last month to turn the first floor of the Three-Self Church located in the Xiuyu district's Daitou town into a publicity center to promote the Communist Party and its leaders.