Jining
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Etymology 1 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濟寧/济宁 (Jǐníng).
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Jining
- A prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong, China.
- 1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily[1], Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:
- To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!”
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city in southwestern Shandong province
Etymology 2 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 集寧/集宁 (Jíníng).
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Jining
- A district of Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China; former county-level city in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China.
- 2019 August 27, “First Chinese bishop consecrated with pope’s OK after deal”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 07 March 2023[3]:
- Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed Tuesday that Monsignor Antonio Yao Shun had received a papal mandate. He was therefore legitimately consecrated bishop of Jining, in Inner Mongolia, at a ceremony Monday.
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jining”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 3