Xiang'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 翔安 (Xiáng'ān).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiɑŋˈæn/

Xiang'an

1. A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China
   • 2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 465:

     Sokolov’s phone had GPS and maps, which he had been watching with interest ever since they had left the airport in their wake. They were roaring down Xunjianggang, a strait about three kilometers wide that ran between Xiamen Island and the northeastern district of Xiang’an.

   • 2020, Yu Zhao et al., “Towards Sustainable Urban Communities: A Composite Spatial Accessibility Assessment for Residental Suitability Based on Network Big Data”, in Big Data Research for Social Sciences and Social Impact‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149:

     In general, the residential suitability of all public services in Siming and Huli district were the best,[...]However, the performance in Xiang'an district was the worst, with a 23.56 average residential score and 51.40% regional disparity.

   • 2021 August 27, Meidong Hu, Zheng Caixiong, “Tropical dragon fruit comes to Gansu”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 28 August 2021:

     Tseng, who had gained experience planting dragon fruit in Taiwan, came to Xiamen, Fujian province, to start his business in 2015.
     He built a plantation in Xiamen's Xiang'an district after finding that the Chinese mainland had great potential for agricultural development. He established a dragon fruit cooperative to attract residents to join him and help revitalize the rural economy.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiang'an.