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  • proper noun A scenic university town and cultural center 17 kilometers south of Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China.

Etymologies

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Chinese 花溪 (huā xī), "flower brook".

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Examples

  • Reuters A worker pours cement at a construction site for new houses in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province.

    China Construction Starts Slowed in 2011 Esther Fung 2012

  • Reuters Construction work on houses in the village of Huaxi, in China's Jiangsu province, on Saturday.

    Housing, Fuel Costs Ease in China Aaron Back 2011

  • Pollution haze over an industrial area of Huaxi village, Jiangsu province.

    China set to exceed carbon emission forecasts, figures show 2011

  • Xinhua/Zuma Press A housing project is being built in Huaxi District of Guiyang, Guizhou province.

    China to Speed Approval of Public-Housing Bonds Esther Fung 2011

  • The Huaxi Metropolis Daily reported the twins weighed 9 pounds and measured 20 inches.

    Photos of the Day: May 10 2011

  • Huaxi represented more of a trajectory than a model.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • While industrial villages like Huaxi expand outward to become towns and cities, hundreds of millions of people from the countryside are drawn in to work on the construction sites and assembly lines they create.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • China was no longer poor and we were not going to just any model community; we were on the way to Huaxi, the “Number One Village” in the wealthiest province of the fastest-growing nation of the early twenty-first century.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Huaxi World Park, located on the highest hill in the area, was a tourist resort with no tourists.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Textile mills and other plants followed as Huaxi blazed a trail for the thousands of town and village enterprises that sprang up across the country during this period.6 The environment was not given a second thought.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

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