"Chichin" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1979 May 13, “Brevities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 18, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4",
          "text": "Undersea tunnel\nConstruction of a 1,635 meter long undersea tunnel to link downtown Kaohsiung with the offshore Chichin district is scheduled to start by the end of this year, Li Lien-chih, director of the Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau said.",
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          "ref": "1986, Eric Downton, Pacific Challenge, Stoddart Publishing, →OCLC, page 112",
          "text": "In the yards scattered around Kaohsiung harbor they still build junks for the fishing fleets that are direct, recognizable descendants of the ships that formed Cheng Ho’s armadas. You can take a short ferry ride from the shipbreakers’ piers, where vessels of modern vintage are being put to death, to places, such as Chichin Island, where junks of the ancient lineage are being given birth.",
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          "ref": "1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →OCLC, page 266",
          "text": "In the 1980s, Chichin Island could only be reached by boat and was devoid of cars. The mayor of Kaohsiung at that time proposed making this island into 'another Miami Beach'. It was not to be. Construction of the cross-harbour tunnel in 1985 has turned most of Chichin Island into a container port.",
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          "ref": "2005 July 29, Yu-Tzu Chiu, “Chen travels to the disputed Pratas Islands”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 2006-01-13",
          "text": "A bus stop cuts a lonely figure against the landscape of Dongsha Island. Although the sign identifies it as a Kaohsiung City bus stop, and the official address is part of Kaohsiung's Chichin district, Dongsha Island lies in the South China Sea, about 444km southwest of the city, and is part of the Pratas Islands.",
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          "ref": "2014 February 13, “Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel”, in 臺灣港務股份有限公司-高雄港務分公司 [Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Ltd.], archived from the original on 2014-10-20",
          "text": "Due to geographic restrictions prior to 1983, the development of the Port of Kaohsiung was limited to the northeast bank of the fairway. The Chichin District, on the southwest bank, was largely sidestepped by construction of the No. 2 Entrance in 1969. The port reopened the Chung-Hsin Commercial Harbor Area as Container Terminal No. 4 in 1983 in order to facilitate equitable harbor development on both sides of the main fairway, improve overall utilization of port land, attract more container shipping business, and expand services available to shipping customers.\nTo end Chichin’s isolation and increase the accessibility of all port land, a Cross-Harbor Tunnel was completed 3 years ahead of the completion of the Container Terminal No. 4 project. The tunnel was designed to serve the needs of both container traffic and Chichin District residents.",
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          "ref": "2021 January, Lin Chien-Hung et al., “高雄港過港隧道延壽工程 再創海底隧道新生命 [Prolongation of Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel Service Life for Recreate a New Life to the Undersea Tunnel]”, in 中華技術 [CECI Engineering Technology], volume 129, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-19, page 117",
          "text": "Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel is located at Container Terminal No. 3 in Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung City. It cross through the main channel of Kaohsiung Port with a width of 440m and a water depth of 14m to the Chung-Hsin Commercial Harbor Area in the Chichin District on the opposite bank.",
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          "text": "Undersea tunnel\nConstruction of a 1,635 meter long undersea tunnel to link downtown Kaohsiung with the offshore Chichin district is scheduled to start by the end of this year, Li Lien-chih, director of the Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau said.",
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          "text": "In the 1980s, Chichin Island could only be reached by boat and was devoid of cars. The mayor of Kaohsiung at that time proposed making this island into 'another Miami Beach'. It was not to be. Construction of the cross-harbour tunnel in 1985 has turned most of Chichin Island into a container port.",
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          "ref": "2005 July 29, Yu-Tzu Chiu, “Chen travels to the disputed Pratas Islands”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 2006-01-13",
          "text": "A bus stop cuts a lonely figure against the landscape of Dongsha Island. Although the sign identifies it as a Kaohsiung City bus stop, and the official address is part of Kaohsiung's Chichin district, Dongsha Island lies in the South China Sea, about 444km southwest of the city, and is part of the Pratas Islands.",
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          "ref": "2014 February 13, “Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel”, in 臺灣港務股份有限公司-高雄港務分公司 [Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Ltd.], archived from the original on 2014-10-20",
          "text": "Due to geographic restrictions prior to 1983, the development of the Port of Kaohsiung was limited to the northeast bank of the fairway. The Chichin District, on the southwest bank, was largely sidestepped by construction of the No. 2 Entrance in 1969. The port reopened the Chung-Hsin Commercial Harbor Area as Container Terminal No. 4 in 1983 in order to facilitate equitable harbor development on both sides of the main fairway, improve overall utilization of port land, attract more container shipping business, and expand services available to shipping customers.\nTo end Chichin’s isolation and increase the accessibility of all port land, a Cross-Harbor Tunnel was completed 3 years ahead of the completion of the Container Terminal No. 4 project. The tunnel was designed to serve the needs of both container traffic and Chichin District residents.",
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          "text": "Kaohsiung Cross-Harbor Tunnel is located at Container Terminal No. 3 in Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung City. It cross through the main channel of Kaohsiung Port with a width of 440m and a water depth of 14m to the Chung-Hsin Commercial Harbor Area in the Chichin District on the opposite bank.",
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