Baishan
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See also: Báishān
Alternative forms
- Pai-shan (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白山 (Báishān).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Baishan
- A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.
- 1986, Zongyan Guo, Zhou Yukun, “Segment-shaped blasting in Baishan hydroelectric station excavations, China”, in Rock engineering and excavation in an urban environment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 181:
- Baishan hydroelectric station is located 39 km from the downstream Hongshi hydroelectric station and 250 km from the downstream Fengman hydroelectric station, Jilin Province, China, on the upper reaches of the Second Songhua River,[...]In Baishan district the weather is very cold in winter (lowest temperature, -44.5°C; highest temperature, 38.8°C; long-term average, 4.3°C).
- 2001 July 18, “Report: Floods Kill 21 Coal Miners”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 June 2022:
- The accident occurred July 1 at a coal mine near Baishan, a city in Jilin province, the Beijing Evening News reported. It said rescue efforts were finally called off this week and the missing miners declared dead.
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