Shihtsuishan

From Mandarin 石嘴山 (Shízuǐshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Shih²-tsui³-shan¹.

Shihtsuishan

1. Alternative form of Shizuishan.
   • 1918 April, Rodney Gilbert, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia‎^[1], volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3:

     Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points.

   • 1966 December 16 [1966], M. P. Petrov, “The Ordos”, in The Deserts of Central Asia: The Ordos, Alashan and Peishan [Pustyni Tsentral noy Azii], volume I, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Moscow, "Science" Publishing House, translation of original in Russian, →OCLC, page 43:

     The first brief information on the natural features of the Ordos were published in 1857 by the French missionaries E. Guck and G. Gabet (1866). These materials were collected by them during a trip to Lhasa when in 1844 they crossed the northern Ordos along a road from the region of Paot'ou across the Davsan-Nur salt lake to the city of Shihtsuishan.

   • 1973 April 25 [1973 April 20], “Ningsia City Sees Off Youths Going to Countryside”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 80, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Yinchuan Ningsia Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

     Some 10,000 of the revolutionary masses from Shihtsuishan municipality on 13 April gathered to send off a group of educated young people who are going to the countryside and hilly areas to work on the frontline of production.

   • 1978, “Paotow”, in D. A. Girling, editor, Everyman's Encyclopaedia‎^[2], 6th edition, volume 9, J M Dent & Sons Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 328, column 2:

     This section of the line opened up areas rich in minerals which have since contributed to Paotow’s industrial development. Coal comes to the city from Shihtsuishan in Ningsia Hui autonomous region, for example.

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