Boritokay
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Etymology edit
From Uyghur بۆرىتوقاي (böritoqay).
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Boritokay
- A township in Ulugqat, Kizilsu, Xinjiang, China.
- 2020 May 31, “Feature: A young official's indispensable position on the Pamir Plateau”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[1], archived from the original on July 16, 2020:
- Most of the residents of Boritokay come from nomadic backgrounds, living in log cabins or temporary houses, with no electricity or tap water. To improve their lives, a new settlement has been built, with roads, the Internet, a kindergarten, a primary school, and a clinic. Many herders have transitioned to farming.
- 2020 July 6, “Young Party members dedicated to poverty reduction”, in State Council Information Office[2], archived from the original on 19 February 2022:
- Zhou, deputy government head of Boritokay township and also a Party member, has been working in Xinjiang since graduating from a teachers' college in Sichuan province, in southwestern China.
- 2020 September 18, “Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang”, in China Daily[3], archived from the original on April 10, 2021:
- Pashagul Keram from Boritokay Township, Wuqia (Ulughchat)County, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture is public-spirited and ready to help－she has led more than 500 local residents to find work in Guangdong, and thereby helped them escape from poverty.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Boritokay.
Synonyms edit
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Biao'ertuokuoyi