# Xinyizhou
## English
### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新義州 / 新义州 (Xīnyìzhōu).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: shĭnʹēʹjōʹ

### Proper noun

Xinyizhou
* Synonym of Sinuiju: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
** [1954 March 26 [1951 March], “Liaotung Province”, in Lin P'eng [林朋], editor, An Introduction to the New Northeast and Inner Mongolia [新東北介紹 Hsin Tung-pei Chieh-shao]‎, sourced from Tung-pei Jih-pao, Mukden [東北日報], published 2011, Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700170091-1, archived from the original on 23 October 2024, page 4‎:An-tung is the provincial capital and has a population of 250,000. It is situated on the north bank of the Yalu River. A railway bridge crosses the river at this point to Hsin-i-chou on the Korean side.]
** [1965 March 31 [1965 March 12], unsigned, “A Solemn Ceremony to Change the Name of An-tung Municipality to Tan-tung Municipality”, in Translations of Political and Sociological Information on Communist China, number 271, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Jen-min Jih-pao, Peiping [人民日報], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, pages 47, 48:The delegation of P'ing-an Pei-tao and Hsin-i-chou municipality led by Li Ken-ho (2621 2704 3109), the vice chairman of the people's council of Hsin-i-chou municipality, P'ing-an Pei-tao, the Korean Democratic People's Republic, attache Cheng Feng-kuei (6774 7685 3802) of the Korean Embassy in China, and the Korean comrades in Tan-tung attended the meeting upon invitation. […] Chief delegate Li Ken-ho gave a speech upon request under loud applauses. He said that Hsin-i-chou and Tan-tung were connected not only geographically, but also by the common ideology and common struggle goal of the people of the two nations.]
** 1985 July 12 [1985 May 8], “Kim Il-song, Hu Yaobang Meeting Reported”, in Korean Affairs Report‎, number 85-048, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 46:Comprehensive top-level leadership talks in Simuiju [Xinyizhou] between Communist China and North Korea, which came about with the unofficial visit of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, are becoming the object of considerable interest, as international interest in the Korean peninsula is higher now than at any time in the past.
** 1995, China Economic News‎, volume 16, numbers 1-24, Economic Information & Consultancy Co, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:Dandong Border Economic Cooperation Zone, at State level, was approved by the State Council in July 1992. The zone is at the Yellow Sea estuary in the northeast of Heilongjiang province. 23.57 sq km are under the zone's control. The zone backs on to the bustling old city area, facing Xinyizhou in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the sea. It has bright prospects for investment and commerce.
** 1995, Philip Waller, John Rowell, “Chronology”, in Chronology of the 20th Century‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:May 1 Japanese army (which had landed in Korea in March), attacks and defeats Russian army at Xinyizhou.
** 2005, Harold Μ. Tanner, “Guerrilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947”, in Warfare in China Since 1600‎, 1st edition, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1190‎:His troops had no identification of any sort, and the Soviet garrison commander in Xinyizhou (located in North Korea, across the river from Andong) could not be confident that this band of armed men was not a force of bandits or a stray unit of the former Manchukuo puppet army.
** c. 2006, Zhao Huiji, ““July 1 Measures”: the Economic Survival Strategy”, in The Structural Crises and the Survival Strategies of North Korea‎, The National Bureau of Asian Research, archived from the original on August 21, 2020, pages 12–13‎:In September, 2002, Xinyizhou was designated by the North Korean government as a special administrative region.
** 2008, Chu Shulong, Lin Xinzhu, “The Six Party Talks: A Chinese Perspective”, in Asian Perspective‎, volume 32, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 36‎:Nevertheless, the DPRK leadership has thought about reform and openness for decades, and has made some relatively small and exemplary attempts: Kim Jong Il visited high-tech zones in Beijing and Shanghai; officials of the DPRK have taken "observation and learning" trips to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in southern China; and North Korea has set up its own "special zones" in the Jingang Mountain area bordering South Korea, and in the Xinyizhou (Sinuiju) area bordering China.
** 2009, Wei Zhang, “The Context of Chinese Outbound Tourism”, in The Motivations, Constraints and Decision-making of Beijing Outbound Tourists‎ (Thesis), University of Waikato, →OCLC, page 15‎:In 1984, the practice of visiting Hong Kong and Macao was extended to all other provinces in China. Permission for travel to Hong Kong and Macao at the time was a landmark event heralding the start of Chinese outbound market (China National Tourism Administration, 1998). Almost at the same time border travel began in 1984 between Dandong in Liaoning province in China and Xinyizhou in North Korea. Both parties exchanged tour groups to have one-day friendship visits. The governments of both sides provided funding for this kind of visit. Soon afterwards an agreement was reached between the tourism administrations of the two countries that tourists themselves must pay for all travel expenses.
** 2011 June, David Leffman, Simon Lewis, Mark South, Martin Zatko, The Rough Guide to China‎, 6th edition, Rough Guides Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :Once an obscure port tucked away in the corner of Liaoning province at the confluence of the Yalu River and the Yellow Sea, DANDONG (丹东, dāndōng) is now a popular weekend destination for Chinese, who come to gaze across the border into North Korea – the listless Korean city of Sinuiju (Xinyizhou in Chinese) lies on the other side of the Yalu River.
** 2016 May 11 [2016 January 27], De-Gao Wang, Qiu-Da Zheng, Xiao-Ping Wang, Juan Du, Chong-Guo Tian, Zhuang Wang, Lin-Ke Ge, “Illicit drugs and their metabolites in 36 rivers that drain into the Bohai Sea and north Yellow Sea, north China”, in Environmental Science and Pollution Research‎, volume 23, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 29, 2019, page 16500, column 2:There are two major cities in this region, Dandong city, China, with a population of 2.46 million people, and Xinyizhou city, North Korea, with a population of 0.352 million people.
** 2022 October 3, Yuanyuan Li, Guangyi Jin, Boyang Sun, Zhehao Cui, Bishun Lu, “Spatial and temporal differences of Chinese tourists’ travel demands to North Korea”, in PLOS One‎, volume 17, number 10, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 04, 2022‎:Additionally, with the development of border tourism, cooperative relations with China have been continuously deepened. In 2011, the self-driving tour from Yanbian, Jilin, China to Rason, North Korea started [5]. In 2016, a half-day landed tour from Dandong, Liaoning to Xinyizhou was opened [6]. In 2018, because of departure procedures have been simplified, the tourists can travel from Hunchun, Jilin to Rason in half day [7].
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xinyizhou.

### Further reading

* “Xinyizhou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “Xinyizhou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.