Changchun

[chahng-choon]

noun

1. Pinyin, Wade-Giles.,  a city in and the capital of Jilin province, in northeastern China: former capital of Manchuria.

Changchun

/ ˈtʃæŋˈtʃʊn /

noun

1. a city in NE China, capital of Jilin province: as Hsinking, capital of the Japanese state of Manchukuo (1932–45). Pop: 3 092 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The rehearsals on Tuesday were for the Changchun Air Show, set to start later this week in north-east China.

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"We sometimes go out to stay in hotels for the air-conditioning," a 20-year-old university student in the northeastern Changchun city, who declined to be named, tells the BBC.

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"Checking into a hotel is a huge expense for us students," the student in Changchun says.

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"It feels like global warming has really affected our world," says the university student in Changchun.

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Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for attacking the boy, who had been walking to a Japanese school in south-eastern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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