Sentence examples for xian from inspiring English sources

Infineon employs two full-time English teachers in its Xian outpost.

Guangdong is further divided into districts under the municipalities (shixiaqu), counties (xian), autonomous counties (zizhixian), and country-level municipalities (xianjishi).

These are further divided into districts under the municipality (shixiaqu), counties (xian), autonomous counties (zizhixian), and county-level municipalities (xianjishi).

It is now divided into the dijishi (prefecture-level municipality) of Lhasa, directly under the jurisdiction of the regional government, and six diqu (prefectures), which are subdivided into shixiaqu (districts), xian (counties), and xianjishi (county-level municipalities).

For a definitive transformation into an Immortal (xian), with all the powers and prerogatives that implied, however, an alchemical elixir must be compounded and consumed.

Administratively, the province is subdivided into two prefecture-level municipalities (dijishi), six county-level cities (xianjishi), four counties (xian), and six autonomous counties (zizhixian); in addition, the Yangpu area is designated a national-level economic development zone.

At the next lower level there are districts under municipalities (shixiaqu), county-level municipalities (xianjishi), counties (xian), and autonomous counties (zizhixian).

The Xian High-Tech Industries Development Zone will eventually span 90 square kilometres at a cost of 100 billion yuan ($12 billion), says Jing Junhai, its director.The sheer size of this undertaking betrays China's ambition to become a global power in software and services to match its pre-eminence in manufacturing.

Wang Yingluo, a professor at Xian Jiaotong University and a member of the Chinese academy of engineering, says "a lot of us are not from industry and have no experience of the commercial world".As a result, foreign companies in China are spending a small fortune "subsidising China's education system", as one puts it.

Above the East Gate (Dongmen) at Shanhai Pass is an inscription attributed to the medieval historian Xiao Xian, which is translated as "First Pass Under Heaven," referring to the traditional division between Chinese civilization and the barbarian lands to the north.

The Zhi Xian Party, literally "the constitution is the supreme authority" party, was formed on 6 November, three days before the opening of a key meeting of top Communist Party leaders to discuss much-needed economic reforms, the sources said.