Hejin

See also: héjīn

English

Alternative forms

• Ho-chin (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河津 (Héjīn).

Proper noun

Hejin

1. A county-level city in Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
   • [1978 February 8 [1978 January 30], “Shansi Power Line”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page K 7‎^[2]:

     After 20 days of hard work, a 110-kw high-tension power line running from the (Hsiajihkou) transformer station in Hancheng County, Shensi, to the (Nanfeneping) transformer station in Hochin County, Shansi, has been successfully completed and will go into operation on the eve of the spring festival.]

   • [1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

     A thermal power plant will be set up in Hsiangning to produce power from local coal which, together with power from the projected Lungmen power plant, will serve to pro- duce aluminum from the big bauxite mine at Hochin to its south.]

   • [1997, Justin Hill, A Bend in the Yellow River‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 251:

     The school is owned by the South Pacific Corporation, and that is owned by a Hainan millionaire. He also owns a steel plant in HeJin town near Yuncheng, and many plantations on Hainan Island.]

   • 2010 March 28, Benjamin Kang Lim, “Flood in new China coal mine traps 123 miners”, in Tim Pearce, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 30 January 2016, World News‎^[6]:

     The mine, sitting astride Xiangning county and Hejin city, covers about 180 sq km, Xinhua said, adding that the mining zone holds more than 2.3 billion tons of coal reserves, including nearly 1.04 billion tons of proven reserves.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 河津 (zh) (Héjīn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hejin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1261, column 3