Dushanzi
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editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 獨山子／独山子 (Dúshānzǐ).
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editDushanzi
- A district of Karamay, Xinjiang, China.
- [1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, “Sino-Soviet Relations and the Communist Revolution”, in The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?[1], 2nd edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., published 1968, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:
- By mid-1960 track had been laid to within 200 miles of Urumchi; but by mid-1961 it remained uncompleted, possibly because of a lack of steel for rails. From Urumchi, it was planned to extend the line westward past the oilfields at Tushantzu, into the Dzhungarian Gate.]
- [1971, Robert Clayton, “Sinkiang”, in China (Finding Out About GEOGRAPHY)[2], New York: John Day Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
- An oil field was discovered at Karamai in 1955, the first of a number to be found in Dzungaria. This oil find has greatly helped China’s industrial development, and the oil fields are now linked to Lanchow by pipeline and by rail. Large refineries have been built at Lanchow and at Tushantzu in Dzungaria.]
- 1979, Donald H. McMillen, Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977[3], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:
- Petroleum is by far the most important fuel resource in Xinjiang. Initial commercial petroleum production dates from about 1940, when the relatively small Dushanzi field was developed, largely by the Soviets, some fifteen miles southeast of Wusu, a highway junction west of Urumqi.
- [1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949[4], Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 127:
- On February 16, 1944, China and Russia signed the Resource Sale Agreement, by which the USSR sold all its buildings and facilities at the Tu-shan-tzu oil fields to China for $1.7 million (U.S. dollars).]
- 2008 January 3, Aizhu Chen, “RPT-UPDATE 2-PetroChina delays refinery, petchem unit to end '08”, in Ramthan Hussain, editor, Reuters[5], archived from the original on 21 March 2023, Oil and Gas[6]:
- “It is hugely difficult to build a new refinery out of the Gobi Desert. We have pushed it back by about a year,” a company source told Reuters by telephone from Dushanzi city in Xinjiang region, near the Kazakhstan border.