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Zigong, formed by the merger of the two former towns of Ziliujing (Tzuliuching) and Gongjing (Kungching), is a prefecture-level city and the third largest city in Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. [1]

57 relations: Benjamin A. Elman, Brine, Castration, China, Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year, Coordinate system, Da'an District, Zigong, Dashanpu Formation, Dashanpusaurus, Dinosaur, Drilling rig, Earthly Branches, Fleur de sel, Fushun County, Sichuan, Gao Min (diver), Gigantspinosaurus, Gold, Gongjing District, Gregorian calendar, Gross domestic product, High tech, Huayangosaurus, ISO 3166-2:CN, Lantern Festival, Leshan, Li Rui (writer), List of postal codes in China, Liu Guangdi, Liu Xiaobo, Luzhou, Neijiang, Omeisaurus, Paleontology, Prefecture-level city, Provinces of China, Rong County, Sichuan, Salt, Salt in Chinese history, Salt well, Sichuan, Sichuan Basin, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Sinraptor, Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, State Council of the People's Republic of China, Time in China, Tourism, Vehicle registration plates of China, Wu Yuzhang, ..., Xiaosaurus, Yangtze, Yantan District, Yibin, Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong Salt History Museum, Ziliujing District. Expand index (7 more) »

Benjamin A. Elman

Benjamin A. Elman (born 1946) is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University.

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Brine

Brine is a high-concentration solution of salt (usually sodium chloride) in water.

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Castration

Castration (also known as gonadectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese calendar

The traditional Chinese calendar (official Chinese name: Rural Calendar, alternately Former Calendar, Traditional Calendar, or Lunar Calendar) is a lunisolar calendar which reckons years, months and days according to astronomical phenomena.

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, usually known as the Spring Festival in modern China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Coordinate system

In geometry, a coordinate system is a system which uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine the position of the points or other geometric elements on a manifold such as Euclidean space.

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Da'an District, Zigong

Da'an is a district of the city of Zigong, Sichuan province, People's Republic of China.

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Dashanpu Formation

The Dashanpu Formation is a Mid to Late Jurassic rock formation in China, most notable for the wealth of dinosaurs that have been excavated from the area.

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Dashanpusaurus

Dashanpusaurus (meaning "Dashanpu lizard" after the township it was discovered in) is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle of the Jurassic period.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Drilling rig

A drilling rig is a machine that creates holes in the earth subsurface.

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Earthly Branches

The Earthly Branches or Twelve Branches are an ordering system used throughout East Asia in various contexts, including its ancient dating system, astrological traditions, and zodiac.

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Fleur de sel

Fleur de sel ("flower of salt" in French) or flor de sal (also "" in Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan) is a salt that forms as a thin, delicate crust on the surface of seawater as it evaporates.

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Fushun County, Sichuan

Fushun County is a county in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China.

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Gao Min (diver)

Gao Min (born September 7, 1970 in Zigong, Sichuan) is a female Chinese diver who won gold medals in the springboard event of the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games.

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Gigantspinosaurus

Gigantspinosaurus (meaning "giant-spined lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Gongjing District

Gongjing District is a district of the city of Zigong, Sichuan Province, China.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used civil calendar in the world.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.

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High tech

High technology, often abbreviated to high tech (adjective forms high-technology, high-tech or hi-tech) is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology available.

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Huayangosaurus

Huayangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China.

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ISO 3166-2:CN

ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry for China in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Leshan

Leshan, formerly known as Jiading, is a prefecture-level city located at the confluence of the Dadu and Min rivers in Sichuan Province, China.

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Li Rui (writer)

Li Rui (born 1949 in Beijing) is a short-story writer and novelist from China.

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List of postal codes in China

Postal codes in the People's Republic of China are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China.

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Liu Guangdi

Liu Guangdi (~1859-1898) was a Chinese government minister during the late Qing dynasty.

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Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China.

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Luzhou

Luzhou (Sichuanese Pinyin: Nu2zou1; Luzhou dialect), formerly transliterated as Lu-chou or Luchow, is a prefecture-level city located in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China.

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Neijiang

Neijiang (Sichuanese Pinyin: Nui4jiang1; Sichuanese pronunciation) is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China.

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Omeisaurus

Omeisaurus (meaning "Omei lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period (Bathonian-Callovian stage) of what is now China.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Prefecture-level city

A prefectural-level municipality, prefectural-level city or prefectural city; formerly known as province-controlled city from 1949 to 1983, is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.

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Provinces of China

Provincial-level administrative divisions or first-level administrative divisions, are the highest-level Chinese administrative divisions.

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Rong County, Sichuan

Rong County or Rongxian (Chinese: 荣县; pinyin: Róngxìan) is a county of Sichuan Province, China.

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Salt

Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.

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Salt in Chinese history

Salt, salt production, and salt taxes played key roles in Chinese history, economic development, and relations between state and society.

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Salt well

A salt well (or brine well) is used to mine salt from subterranean caverns or deposits.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Sichuan Basin

The Sichuan Basin, formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China.

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Sichuan University of Science and Engineering

Sichuan University of Science and Engineering (SUSE) is in Zigong, Sichuan, China.

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Sinraptor

Sinraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic.

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Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China

The Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, also referred to as the 2010 Chinese Census, was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China with a zero hour of November 1, 2010.

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State Council of the People's Republic of China

The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Government since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China.

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Time in China

The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), despite China spanning five geographical time zones.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Vehicle registration plates of China

Vehicle registration plates in China are mandatory metal or plastic plates attached to motor vehicles in mainland China for official identification purposes.

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Wu Yuzhang

Wu Yuzhang (given name Yongshan; December 30, 1878 – December 12, 1966) was a Chinese politician, educator, and president of Renmin University of China from 1950 to 1966.

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Xiaosaurus

Xiaosaurus ("dawn lizard"), is a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the middle Jurassic, approximately 169 to 163 mya.

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Yangtze

The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

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Yantan District

Yantan District is a district of Sichuan Province, China.

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Yibin

Yibin (Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China, located at the junction of the Min and Yangtze Rivers.

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Zigong Dinosaur Museum

The Zigong Dinosaur Museum is located near the city of Zigong, Sichuan, China, in the township of Dashanpu.

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Zigong Salt History Museum

The Zigong Salt History Museum is a museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province, Southwest China.

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Ziliujing District

Ziliujing District, formerly romanized as Tzuliutsing, is a district of Zigong in Sichuan Province, China.

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Tzu-Kung, Tzukung, Zigong, Sichuan, 自貢, 自貢市, 自贡, 自贡市.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigong

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