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- noun In China, a construction and corporation composed of
soldiers , especially working-class ones.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The soldier-settlers in the bingtuan production/ construction PLA corps were on a mission to turn desert into farmland and produce food for a hungry, fast-growing nation.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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With it went the Tarim tiger, the large-headed fish, huge numbers of Bactrian camels, and a greenbelt of poplar forests.21 With the tree barrier gone, the Taklamakan and Kum Tagh deserts joined up, forcing bingtuan units to abandon their barracks and fields.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The soldier-settlers in the bingtuan production/ construction PLA corps were on a mission to turn desert into farmland and produce food for a hungry, fast-growing nation.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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With it went the Tarim tiger, the large-headed fish, huge numbers of Bactrian camels, and a greenbelt of poplar forests.21 With the tree barrier gone, the Taklamakan and Kum Tagh deserts joined up, forcing bingtuan units to abandon their barracks and fields.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The soldier-settlers in the bingtuan production/ construction PLA corps were on a mission to turn desert into farmland and produce food for a hungry, fast-growing nation.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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With it went the Tarim tiger, the large-headed fish, huge numbers of Bactrian camels, and a greenbelt of poplar forests.21 With the tree barrier gone, the Taklamakan and Kum Tagh deserts joined up, forcing bingtuan units to abandon their barracks and fields.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Xinjiang – which borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Tibet, Mongolia, and Russia – is one of the last areas in China to maintain the “bingtuan” system of communal army farms.
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Han Chinese dominate the bingtuan, which comprise about 15% of Xinjiang's economic output, providing scant opportunity for minorities.
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Over the next five years it will increase fixed-asset investment in the province and the bingtuan, paramilitary work units set up in Xinjiang in the 1950s and staffed with former soldiers.
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