Suifenhe
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綏芬河／绥芬河 (Suífēnhé).
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Suifenhe
- A city in Heilongjiang, China.
- [1983, Chong-Sik Lee, “Manchuria in the 1920s”, in Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922-1945[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
- The Chinese workers in Tsitsihar, 170 miles northwest of Harbin, struck against the railroad on April 30, and another strike of Chinese workers occurred in Suifenho, at the southeastern end of the railroad, on May 2.]
- [2011, Craig Collie, “Nagasaki, Thursday 9 August 1945, evening”, in Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and the Unknowing[2], Portobello Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 272:
- On the eastern front, the main force of tanks and mobile artillery had pushed past isolated units of the Kwantung Army, leaving following units to mop them up. The lead units advanced on the fortifications of Suifenho, seizing critical rail tunnels on the main line into Manchuria.]
- 2020 April 13, “Britain Is Expected to Extend Coronavirus Lockdown: Live Coverage”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-04-13, ASIA PACIFIC[4]:
- That flight arrived just days after China said that it would close, effective Monday, its last overland crossing at Suifenhe, a small city across the border from Russia’s Far East.
- 2020 April 13, “China reports highest number of Covid-19 cases in weeks”, in France 24[5], archived from the original on 14 April 2020[6]:
- Suifenhe and Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang, are now mandating 28 days of quarantine for all arrivals from abroad as well as nucleic acid and antibody tests.
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city in China
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