Qinhuangdao

American  

[chin-hwahng-dou] / ˈtʃɪnˈʰwɑŋˈdaʊ /

(Older Spelling) Chinwangtao or Chinhuangtao

noun

Pinyin.

1. a seaport in northeastern Hebei province, in northeastern China, on the Bohai.

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Example Sentences

The accident occurred Saturday afternoon outside the city of Qinhuangdao near the coast of Hebei province, a few hour’s drive from the capital Beijing.

From Seattle Times

She sniggers at her boyfriend who teases her as she lines up her shot at a snooker hall in Qinhuangdao, just a few hours' drive from Beijing.

From BBC

At the centre of the scandal is a storage site in Qinhuangdao that is holding only one-third of the 300,000 tonnes of copper concentrate that more than a dozen Chinese companies were financing, according to a report earlier this month by Bloomberg.

From Reuters

Glencore transferred some of its existing metal stocks from Qinhuangdao to alternatives such as Qingdao in an effort to avoid similar problems, the newspaper said citing a trader.

From Reuters

He and others ran a section that started at the eastern end of the Great Wall on the coast in the city of Qinhuangdao.

From Seattle Times