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Heixiazi en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• hā′shyä′dzœ′

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑瞎子島 /黑瞎子岛 (Hēixiāzǐ Dǎo).

Meanings

1. Synonym of Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island: An island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers divided between Heixiazidao, Fuyuan, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China and Khabarovsky district, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia; the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up. 1991, Donald S. Zagoria, “The Changing Role of the Soviet Union in the Pacific”, in Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin F. Laird, editors, Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy: From Brezhnev to Gorbachev, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 678:
   • This resurgence in the two nations’ bilateral trade caused Russian President Medvedev in 2011 to project that Sino-Russian trade could reach US$100 billion in only three to five years! (Xinhua News Agency 2011d). It has also allowed both countries to push past their previous differences in search of profit, such as China and Russia’s recent announcement of a joint venture to co-develop the border island of Heixiazi into a tourist resort (World News Connection 2011a). 2012, Susan Turner Haynes, “China's Bilateral Interactions with Russia”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy, Ashgate, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:
   • China has agreed to study a Soviet proposal for joint development of some islands in the Amur River, the site of fierce armed conflicts over sovereignty between the two countries since the early 1960s, according to authoritative Chinese and Eastern bloc diplomatic sources here.[…] The proposed region includes Heixiazi, an island with a maximum width of some 4 kilometers sandwiched between two waterways, where a border conflict between Chinese and Soviet troops claimed more than 100 lives in March 1969. 1986 October 6 [1986 October 4], “Sources Say PRC Studying USSR Border Proposal”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 193, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Tokyo KYODO, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs, page C 2:

Forms

Synonyms

Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island

Translations (1)

cmn 黑瞎子島 /黑瞎子岛 (island)