Gucheng
English
Alternative forms
- Ku-ch'eng, Kucheng, Ku-ch'êng (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 穀城/谷城 (Gǔchéng).
Proper noun
Gucheng
- A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- 2007 December, Huanzhi Liu, “New Roads to Prosperity in Central China”, in China Today, volume 56, number 12, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78:
- The industrialization of tea production in Wushan Town of Gucheng County, Xiangfan City, provides another example of the benefits generated by improved rural roads. The dispersed tea-growing fields in the area are now linked by modern roads, allowing the formation of an integrated tea growing base of 1,700 hectares.
- 2014, Qingli Meng, “Findings: The Three Stages of Corruption in China”, in Corruption in Transitional China: A 33-Year Study, Wolf Legal Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
- The Party Secretary and the Mayor of Gucheng County, Hubei Province were removed from their positions for using public funds to buy expensive cars within their administrative jurisdictions.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gucheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1462, column 1
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