Qilian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁連／祁连 (Qílián).

Qilian

1. A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
   • 2005 June 24 [2005 May 26], Chris Taylor, anonymous quotee, “Outbreak cover-up?”, in Henry Niman (using Alta Vista's Babelfish translator), transl., South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 05, 2018‎:

     The reports of the past few days have been made by the nine of us from around Gangcha county and Qilian county, because we wanted to really understand the avian influenza situation in Qinghai. We came disguised as tourists to carry out on-the-spot interviews ... only by coming to this place can you realise just how poor China can be. Anyone with a conscience would shed tears.