Aihui

See also: Àihuī

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 愛輝 / 爱辉 (Àihuī).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: īʹhwāʹ

Proper noun

Aihui

  1. A district of Heihe, Heilongjiang, China.
    • 1968 November 8, “Schools Managed by the Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants”, in Peking Review, volume 11, number 45, →OCLC, page 12, columns 1–2:
      FOLLOWING Chairman Mao's instructions on the proletarian revolution in education, the poor and lower-middle peasants of the Layaozi, Songshugou and Waisandaogou Production Brigades of the Aihui People’s Commune, Aihui County, Heilungkiang Province, entered the schools in November last year, seizing back the power of leadership in these schools and smashing the complete domination of the schools by bourgeois intellectuals.
    • 1974 April 30 [1974 April 27], “Heilungkiang PLA Men Criticize Crimes of Lin, Old, New Tsars”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 84, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northeast Region, page L 1:
      Aihui County, where the 2d frontier defense company of a certain unit of the PLA Heilungkiang Provincial Military District is stationed, is where tsarist Russia forced the Ching government to sign the unequal Sino-Russia Aihui Treaty in 1858. []
      The people in Aihui County can clearly remember every towering crime of the old tsars in invading China.
    • 1983 June 27 [1983 May 28], “Heilongjiang's Aihui County Joins Heihe City”, in Daily Report: China, number 124, sourced from Harbin HEILONGJIANG RIBAO p 1 [黑龙江日报], translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC Regional Affairs: Northeast Region, page S 2:
      According to our reporter Wang Zengxiang, the organizational system of our province's Aihui County has already been canceled and in line with an official and written reply of the State Council to our province, this county will be incorporated into Heihe City.
      Aihui was originally named Aihun and was established earlier than all other administrative units in the province. []
      Heihe City was established in 1980 with the approval of the State Council. Its administrative division covers Heihe Township of the former Aihui County, one suburban commune, and three neighboring collieries. After Aihui is incorporated into Heihe City, Heihe City will still be under the leadership of Heihe Prefecture.
    • 1995 August 8 [1995 August 7], “Heilongjiang Secretary Inspects Heihe 4-6 Aug”, in Daily Report: China, number 152, sourced from Harbin Heilongjiang People's Radio Network, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 68, column 1:
      Yue Qifeng, secretary of the provincial party committee; accompanied by Wang Xianmin, member and secretary general of the provincial party standing committee; (Zhao Wenzhou), secretary of the Heihe city party committee; and Sun Hongzhi, mayor of Heihe city; conducted the investigation and study among the counties of Sunwu and Xunke as well as in Aihui district from 4 to 6 August.
    • 2017, Dan Millman, The Hidden School: Return of the Peaceful Warrior[1], Hay House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
      According to Hua Chi, my eventual destination was the Taishan Forest in the Aihui District of the Heihe region—a supposedly isolated woods in an otherwise populated area.
    • 2022 January-July, Lisheng Zhang, “Ambivalent Nostalgia: Commemorating Zhiqing in the Jianchuan Museum Complex”, in Made in China Journal, volume 7, number 1, ANU Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, Focus, page 74, column 2:
      In 2002, 50-year-old Chen Shuxin was appointed to build a museum in the historical Aihui District of Heihe, China’s northernmost city, of which he was then vice-mayor. Chen spent six years setting up the country’s first museum about the zhiqing generation, the Heihe Zhiqing Museum. On its opening day in August 2009, the museum in this small city on the border with Russia attracted more than 5,000 visitors.

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