Liupanshui

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 六盤水／六盘水 (Liùpánshuǐ).

Proper noun

Liupanshui

1. A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
   • 2017 September 12, Chris Buckley, “After Toiling in Rural China, a Protégé of Xi Jinping Joins Party’s Top Tiers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 12, 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     “In recent years earnings from farming were low, everyone let land go fallow,” said Tao Yongpan, an official at Mount Niangniang, a cluster of villages in the Liupanshui area of western Guizhou that served as an inspiration for policies promoted by Mr. Chen. “Soil erosion was serious and farmland was left idle. Rural production was on the slide.”

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六盤水／六盘水 (zh) (Liùpánshuǐ)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liupanshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1757, column 2