tienpai

Example Sentences

• "Embassy received note dated November 7 from Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs referring to its note August 24 (full text of which given Cantel 1031), stating Chinese Government has decided to close temporarily beginning midnight November 7, 1949 region along seacoast and within Chinese territorial waters from a point north of the mouth of Weitou Bay, 118 degrees 34 minutes east longitude and 24 degrees 31 minutes north latitude and southward and westward to a point west of the region of Tienpai Hsien, Kwangtung Province, 211 degrees 20 minutes east longitude and 21 degrees 30 minutes north latitude and at same time to close five ports of Amoy, Swatow, Canton, Kingpei and Chiangmen."
• "Subsequently, the Chinese Government repeatedly notified the various foreign governments announcing the extension of the closure area from the north of the mouth of the Min River, i. e., 119 degrees 40 minutes east longitude and 26 degrees 15 minutes north latitude, southward to the west of Tienpai hsien, i. e., 111 degrees 20 minutes east longitude and 21 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, of which the record is on file."
• "A survey made in 1957 found that of the 97,500 mu of land in the Hsiaoliang People's Commune in Tienpai county, south Kwangtung, only eight per cent were cultivable."
• "The biggest in years, the annual spring afforestation drive has moved up from the warmer southern provinces to the rest of the country. Tienpai County in Kwangtung Province is, as usual, well to the fore."
• "In Tienpai county, Kwangtung province, a great wall of trees along the coast checks wind and sand."
• "Credit cooperatives in Kwangtung have helped the rural areas save capital and develop production. In some counties they have been able to solve basically the problem of capital for the development of agricultural production and have made contributions to farmland capital construction and the development of agricultural mechanization. In Tienpai County, where many credit cooperatives have propagated the importance of shunning extravagance and going in for diligence and thrift, the savings of commune members have risen by 100 percent in three years."