Jinshajiang

See also: Jinsha Jiang and Jin Sha Jiang

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Jinshajiang

Alternative form of Jinsha Jiang
- 1988, K. Mark Stevens, George E. Wehrfritz, “Sichuan”, in Paddy Booz, editor, Southwest China: Off the Beaten Track‎^[1], Passport Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 169:
  There are numerous spectacular views of the Jinshajiang and the 6,000-meter peaks beyond its east bank in Sichuan Province.
- 2007, Geoffrey Murray, Ian G. Cook, “The Sanxia dam”, in Green China: Seeking ecological alternatives‎^[2], RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 111:
  Similarly, in Yunnan province logging was banned along Jinshajiang, a branch of the Yangtze River, beginning 1 September 1998 (China Daily, 2 September 1998). The latter source also suggested that Yunnan Province had over ten years already spent 170 million yuan (US$20 million) to save the forests, as a result of ‘The Project of Yangtze Upper-Stream Shelter- Forest System’, involving more than 667,000 hectares of shelter-forests planted to conserve water and soil along the Jinshajiang River.
- 2007, Shunxun Nan, Beverly Foit-Albert, China's Sacred Sites‎^[3], Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 196:
  Baoshan is an ancient village built on the rocks above the banks of the Jinshajiang River, 115 kilometers northeast of Lijiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province. […]
  The half-square-kilometer village is surrounded by cliffs and steep slopes. The Jinshajiang River borders the village to the east, and the high Maonui (Yak) mountain ridge rises to the west.
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