Gangwei

• (from Wade-Giles) Kang-wei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 港尾 (Gǎngwěi).

Gangwei

1. A town in Longhai, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China, formerly a township.
   • 1990, Daily Report: China‎, number 100-109, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, ISSN 0892-0141, OCLC 1113433, page 67, column 1:

     Also on 30 April, Trawler No. 1107 of Jinyu Island, Gangwei Town, Longhai County, Zhangzhou City was fishing a few nautical miles off Penghu Island when it was forcibly towed away by a KMT gunboat. The 16 crew members on board were detained for seven days by the garrisoned troops and were only released on 8 May.

   • 2012 October, Liu, Qian; Jin-Hai Yu; Qin Wang; Bin Su; Mei-Fu Zhou, “Ages and geochemistry of granites in the Pingtan–Dongshan Metamorphic Belt, Coastal South China: New constraints on Late Mesozoic magmatic evolution”, in Lithos‎, volume 150, DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.031, ISSN 0024-4937, page 277:

     The Shenwo gneissic granite (DS-24-2) in the Gangwei area, south of Xiamen, belongs to the southern PDMB.

   • 2013 July 20, “Cimaron brings heavy rains to Fujian”, in China Internet Information Center‎, archived from the original on July 20, 2013:

     An entrance guard clears mud at the gate of government of Gangwei Township in Longhai of Zhangzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, July 19, 2013.

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