yichang

Example Sentences

• "To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the investigators, from Neolithic to Han."
• "Ships of over 1,000 tons today can make the 680-kolometer round trip between Yichang and Chungking in 5 or 6 days, instead of 10 to 15 days formerly, thanks to the enormous amount of work done after liberation to make this most perilous section of the Yangtze River safe for navigation."
• "HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port. [...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union. [...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated. [...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang. [...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm."
• "Images of an apparently twisted Three Gorges dam surfaced on social media last week, fuelling online concerns that the dam was posing a disastrous flooding threat to downstream towns and villages. However, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the circulated satellite images were fake and posted its own picture showing a straight dam spanning the river near Yichang in the central province of Hubei. “Nothing wrong with the Three Gorges Dam,” the company declared."
• "Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges"."