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34-477: The center of the city is named Huilong Township. It also has a well-known fishing port called Lüsi town, named after Lü Dongbin , one of the eight immortals, who is said to have visited the place four times. Qidong's Qilong township was formerly a separate island in the Yangtze called Yonglongsha but now forms a pene-enclave on Chongming Island , most of which belongs to Shanghai . The area of present-day Qidong

68-490: A 1 km (0.39 sq mi) Thai-themed amusement park in the territory. The township of Qilong forms part of the county-level city of Qidong, itself part of the prefecture-level city of Nantong in Jiangsu province. Qilong is divided between the communities of Yonglong ( 永隆社区 , Yǒnglóng Shèqū ) and Xinglong ( 兴隆社区 , Xīnglóng Shèqū ). Mutually intelligible In linguistics , mutual intelligibility

102-542: A nursery forest. The area achieved minor notability in 2014 when satellite imagery revealed that a local farm had shaped one of its fields into a taijitu (yin-yang symbol). As with many areas of Chongming Island, Qilong farms hairy crab . In addition, they grow edamame for export to Japan and South Korea and malting barley for domestic production. From 2003, Qilong has seen dairy farms established and expanded for Shanghai-area milk companies. The Shanghai-based Yaoji Playing Card Company also has plans to construct

136-590: A single prestige variety in Modern Standard Arabic . In contrast, there is often significant intelligibility between different North Germanic languages . However, because there are various standard forms of the North Germanic languages, they are classified as separate languages. A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but

170-496: Is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intelligibility is sometimes used to distinguish languages from dialects , although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. Intelligibility between varieties can be asymmetric; that is, speakers of one variety may be able to better understand another than vice versa. An example of this

204-447: Is an offshore engineering & construction hub hosting companies like COSCO, SINOPACIFIC, Specialty Process Equipment Corporation (SPEC), Shanghai Zhen Hua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) Qidong Marine Engineering Company Limited (formerly DAODA Heavy Industry) and several other heavy industry, shipyard & fabrications facilities. Major agriculture crops produced in the area include wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, yams, and cotton. The climate

238-447: Is suitable for pears, peaches, oranges, and watermelons. Fishing is a major source of income for some rural residents. The Qidong protest happened in July 2012. It was a violent environmental protest against an industrial waste pipeline. A Japanese company called Oji Paper Company constructed a paper mill in the city of Nantong , Jiangsu. The wastewater from the factory would be emitted to

272-442: Is the case between Afrikaans and Dutch . It is generally easier for Dutch speakers to understand Afrikaans than for Afrikaans speakers to understand Dutch. (See Afrikaans § Mutual intelligibility with Dutch ). In a dialect continuum , neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but differences mount with distance, so that more widely separated varieties may not be mutually intelligible. Intelligibility can be partial, as

306-436: Is the case with Azerbaijani and Turkish , or significant, as is the case with Bulgarian and Macedonian . However, sign languages , such as American and British Sign Language , usually do not exhibit mutual intelligibility with each other. Asymmetric intelligibility refers to two languages that are considered partially mutually intelligible, but for various reasons, one group of speakers has more difficulty understanding

340-740: Is the most prestigious. Qidong High School was established in 1928 and has been one of the best middle schools in Jiangsu province ever since. Over ninety percent of graduates from Qidong Middle School attend first-class universities every year. People living in Lüsi town (Lusze) speak a different dialect —known as the Lüsi ( 吕 四 话 ; 呂四話 ; Lǚsì Huà ) or Tongdong dialect ( 通 东 话 ; 通東話 ; Tōngdōng Huà )—from most other residents, who generally speak Qidong Dialect ( 启 东 话 ; 啓東話 ; Qǐdōng Huà ). The two dialects are considerably different, and thus they are not mutually intelligible . Because most economical, educational, and governmental activities are held in

374-588: The Republic of China , Tongzhou was renamed to Nantong . Later, Qidong was governed by Nantong , Haimen , and Chongming . On March 1, 1928, Qidong County was established with a population of around 330,000 residents. By November 1989, significant progress was made in urbanization and the Chinese State Council permitted the promotion of Qidong from a county to a county-level city . At November 16, 2021, there female secondary students committed suicide,

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408-563: The Xinchang Railway and Ningxi Railway , and strengthen the cargo transportation capacity between East China and West China. Qidong railway station has passenger services. Chongqi Bridge : Chongqi Bridge is a river crossing channel connecting China to Shanghai and Jiangsu Province, located at the Yangtze River estuary. It was completed in 2011. Chongqi Bridge links Qidong with Chongming County and also downtown Shanghai, reducing

442-615: The varieties of Chinese , and parts of the Romance , Germanic and Slavic families in Europe. Terms used in older literature include dialect area ( Leonard Bloomfield ) and L-complex ( Charles F. Hockett ). Northern Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia form a dialect continuum where the two furthermost dialects have almost no mutual intelligibility. As such, spoken Danish and Swedish normally have low mutual intelligibility, but Swedes in

476-563: The Öresund region (including Malmö and Helsingborg ), across the strait from the Danish capital Copenhagen , understand Danish somewhat better, largely due to the proximity of the region to Danish-speaking areas. While Norway was under Danish rule , the Bokmål written standard of Norwegian developed from Dano-Norwegian , a koiné language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during

510-412: The cars and threw stones into the government building. Then approximately 1,000 protestors rushed into government buildings and smashed everything they could see. They also found fine liquors, condoms, and expensive watches in the building. The protest ended after a few days because of government intervention. Riot police were called in, and they stopped the demonstration in one day. In the following days,

544-462: The city capital Huilong, where Qidong Dialect is prevalent, many residents of Lüsi have learned to understand and even speak the majority dialect. Qidong Dialect is a dialect of Wu Chinese . Some people consider it similar to Shanghainese , also a dialect of Wu Chinese. It is almost the same as the dialect spoken in Chongming District , which is under the administration of Shanghai. Both of

578-559: The coast of Qidong. The rumors said that the Japanese company bribed the mayor, and the wastewater was going to pollute the drinking water of Qidong. In 2012, the Chinese have anti-Japanese sentiment because of the Senkaku Islands dispute , and the anti-Japanese demonstrations were breaking out country-wide. About 10,000 Qidong citizens ran out to the street and joined the protest, they crashed

612-422: The context of the communication. Classifications may also shift for reasons external to the languages themselves. As an example, in the case of a linear dialect continuum , the central varieties may become extinct , leaving only the varieties at both ends. Consequently, these end varieties may be reclassified as two languages, even though no significant linguistic change has occurred within the two extremes during

646-723: The current circumstances of three girls are not certain. At present, Qidong City has 11 towns and 1 township. There are four distinct seasons: spring, summer, fall, and a mild winter. During the summer, monsoon lasts for weeks, and there is plenty of rain. Qidong is famous for its high school. Students from middle schools in Qidong usually get higher grades on the Gao Kao , China's national college entrance examination. Qidong has five public middle schools: Qidong Middle School, Huilong High School , Dongnan Middle School, Shiyi Middle School, and Lüsi Middle School. Among these schools, Qidong High School

680-508: The differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. This is a typical occurrence with widely spread languages and language families around the world, when these languages did not spread recently. Some prominent examples include the Indo-Aryan languages across large parts of India , varieties of Arabic across north Africa and southwest Asia, the Turkic languages ,

714-570: The driving time from three hours to one hour. Qidong can be reached from Shanghai Pudong Airport within 45 minutes without traffic congestion. Yuan Tuo Corner: It is China's largest freshwater wetland reserve. The Yangtze River entered the sea from here, and the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea are also Separate here. Local industry focuses on pharmaceutical production, computer accessory production, and chemical fertilizer production. Qidong

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748-401: The extinction of the central varieties. Furthermore, political and social conventions often override considerations of mutual intelligibility. For example, the varieties of Chinese are often considered a single language, even though there is usually no mutual intelligibility between geographically separated varieties. This is similarly the case among the varieties of Arabic , which also share

782-562: The first official government, called Lüsi chang, was established. During the transition period of the Yuan Dynasty and Qing Dynasty , the Yangtze River's main waterway moved northward and resulted in a large area of land loss in Lüsi chang. Lüsi chang was merged into Tongzhou . Increasing sediment accumulation bordered Qidong with the mainland during the Qing dynasty . In the first year of

816-450: The grand theater can meet the requirements of various large-scale operas, dances, ballets, concerts, large-scale comprehensive literary and artistic performances while taking into account the conference function. The small theater can meet the needs of various purposes, such as small art performances, small drama performances, conferences, and so on. Ningqi Railway : The railway is 365 km long, connecting Nanjing to Qidong. It connects

850-538: The island between them. Qidong's area was organized as a farmstead. Continuing reclamation projects and natural deposition of sediment joined it to Chongming Island in 1972. Another area of Qilong derives from its later absorption of Xinglongsha ( Chinese : 兴 隆 沙 ; pinyin : Xīnglóngshā ), another shoal. Prior to Yonglongsha's absorption by Chongming, it offered ferry service to Haimen 's Lingdian Harbor ( 灵 甸 港 ; Língdiāngǎng ) and Qidong 's Sanhe Harbor ( 三 和 港 ; Sānhégǎng ). Qilong

884-793: The later years of the union. Additionally, Norwegian assimilated a considerable amount of Danish vocabulary as well as traditional Danish expressions. As a consequence, spoken mutual intelligibility is not reciprocal. Because of the difficulty of imposing boundaries on a continuum, various counts of the Romance languages are given. For example, in The Linguasphere register of the world's languages and speech communities , David Dalby lists 23 languages based on mutual intelligibility: The non-standard vernacular dialects of Serbo-Croatian ( Kajkavian , Chakavian and Torlakian ) diverge more significantly from all four normative varieties of Serbo-Croatian. Their mutual intelligibility varies greatly between

918-593: The non-hard-of-hearing people of the United Kingdom and the United States share the same spoken language. The grammar of sign languages does not usually resemble that of the spoken languages used in the same geographical area. To illustrate, in terms of syntax , ASL shares more in common with spoken Japanese than with English . Almost all linguists use mutual intelligibility as the primary linguistic criterion for determining whether two speech varieties represent

952-491: The organizers of the demonstration were arrested. Qilong Township Qilong is a township of Qidong in eastern Jiangsu province. The land it occupies was formerly Yonglongsha , a separate island in the Yangtze River delta , but reclamation projects and natural deposition of sediment have joined it to Chongming Island , where it now forms a pene-enclave within Shanghai 's Chongming County . Its population

986-749: The other language than the other way around. For example, if one language is related to another but has simplified its grammar , the speakers of the original language may understand the simplified language, but not vice versa. To illustrate, Dutch speakers tend to find it easier to understand Afrikaans as a result of Afrikaans's simplified grammar. Sign languages are not universal and usually not mutually intelligible, although there are also similarities among different sign languages. Sign languages are independent of spoken languages and follow their own linguistic development. For example, British Sign Language and American Sign Language (ASL) are quite different linguistically and mutually unintelligible, even though

1020-476: The same or different languages. A primary challenge to this position is that speakers of closely related languages can often communicate with each other effectively if they choose to do so. In the case of transparently cognate languages recognized as distinct such as Spanish and Italian, mutual intelligibility is in principle and in practice not binary (simply yes or no), but occurs in varying degrees, subject to numerous variables specific to individual speakers in

1054-490: The two dialects belong to the Northern Wu. However, because of cultural differences between the two places, there still exist non-intelligible usage mostly in vocabulary. Qidong Grand Theater: Qidong Grand Theater is located on the east side of Jianghai South Road and both sides of Qiantang River Road. It has a 1200-seat grand theater and a 408-seat small theater. The stage process design and mechanical equipment configuration of

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1088-540: Was 3436 at the time of the 2010 Chinese census . Qilong's name—literally "opening prosperity"—is a compound of contracted forms of its county and its former island. Yonglongsha , a shoal in the channel of the Yangtze north of Chongming Island , reappeared most recently in 1937. By 1968, workers from Jiangsu had stabilized the land enough that the conflicting claims of the counties of Haimen and Qidong were mediated by their prefecture of Nantong , which divided

1122-465: Was elevated to a township in 1992 and is now connected to Chongming's road network but this also was only connected to Jiangsu by ferry service prior to the 2011 opening of the Chongqi Bridge between Chenjia and Qidong. In 2008, its urban plan included 6.66 hectares (16.5 acres) for the construction of five agricultural parks: a rare flower park, a ginkgo park, a pear orchard, an orangery , and

1156-557: Was part of the East China Sea until the Han dynasty , when deposition from the Yangtze River began to form islands, notably including Dongbuzhou ( t   東布洲 , s   东布洲 , p   Dōngbùzhōu ) at the site of present-day Lüsi. In the Tang Dynasty , prisoners were sent to Qidong and worked on salt production. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period ,

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