Jinning

• (postal romanization) Kinning
• (from Wade–Giles) Chinning

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 金寧 (Jīnníng).

Jinning

1. A rural township in Kinmen, Taiwan.
   • 2007, Macdonald, Phil, “Strait Islands”, in Taiwan‎ (Travel), 2nd edition, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, OCLC 938505593, pages 200-202:

     On Kinmen’s northwest tip, in Jinning District, the Guningtou Battlefield was the scene of a 56-hour bloodbath that began when Communist troops landed on the shore in the early hours of October 24, 1949. […]
     Erected in 1812, the Memorial Arch to Ciou Liang-gong’s (Qiu Liang-gong) Mother, on Jyuguang (Juguang) Road in Jinhu District, to the east of Jinning, celebrates the virtuous mother of Ciou Liang-song (Qiu Liang-gong), a governor-general of Zhejiang province in mainland China who was a resident of Kinmen.

   • 2018, Shen, Chien-wen; et al., “Big Data Visualization of the Alcohol Expenses in Taiwan”, in Data Mining and Big Data: Third International Conference, DMBD 2018‎, Springer, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-93803-5, →ISBN, ISSN 0302-9743, LCCN 2018947325, OCLC 1040261645, page 219:

     Reaching NTD12,878 in average alcohol spending per capita in 2014, Jinning Township of Kinmen County is defined as outliers for out valuing the other regions; and is accommodated beyond graph boundary. The high alcohol spending in Jinning Township also vastly contributes to the majority of alcohol expenditure of Kinmen County. For examples, the total expenditure in Kinmen County is NTD369,011,239.91 in 2014; while the expenditure of Jinning Township, Kinmen County reaches NTD351,670,052. Moreover, the total expenditure of 2015 in Kinmen County decreased by NTD200 million NTD, which corresponds to the declining total expenditure in Jinning Township, Kinmen County.

   • 2021, Liu, Wan-Yu; et al., “Impacts of Environmental Change on Place Attachment”, in Joseph S. Chen, editor, Advances in Hospitality and Leisure‎, volume 16, Emerald Publishing, →ISBN, ISSN 1745-3542, OCLC 1159491801, page 108:

     Significant differences in place attachment were also founded among those coming from different townships. An ANOVA post hoc test - the Fisher's LSD test - reveals that the place attachment of residents in Jincheng Township and Jinning Township was significantly higher than that of residents in Jinhu Township and Jinsha Township.

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 晉寧／晋宁 (Jìnníng).

Jinning

1. A district of Kunming, Yunnan, China.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1451, column 1