Definition of "Huining"

A brief police account of the attack on Tuesday in semirural Huining County, Gansu Province, left many questions unanswered, including the identities of the victims.

2019 February 6, Chris Buckley, “Eight Killed in Knife Attack in China Amid Lunar New Year Celebrations”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 06 February 2019, Asia Pacific‎

The case was heard by the Huining county court in northwestern China’s Gansu province at the end of June. […] Song met the mother, identified by her surname Jiang, in the spring of 2018 when on the street in Huining county and learned that Jiang was single.

2022 August 15, Alice Yan, “‘God of Online Dating’: catfisher in China ‘dates’ mother and son simultaneously and cons pair out of US$20,800, court hears”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on August 15, 2022, Trending in China‎

The mineral resources of Kirin province have never been adequately studied. They are known to include, however, in addition to the gold and copper now being mined in the T’ien Pao Shan district contiguous to the proposed Huining (Kainei in Japanese) terminus of the Kirin-Tunhua-Huining railway, also aluminum in the valley of the Mutan, north of Tunhua.

1928 July, C. Walter Young, “Chinese Colonization in Manchuria”, in The Far Eastern Review‎, volume XXIV, number 7, page 299, column 1

This line is a continuation of the Seoul-Gensan line and extends from Gensan, in South Kanko Province, to Kainei (Korean “Hoiryong”; Chinese “Huining”), in North Kanko, a distance of some 383.8 miles.

1929 December, Ransford S. Miller, “Railway Development in Chosen”, in The Far Eastern Review‎, volume XXV, number 12, page 570, column 1

The project for a railway from Kirin City, the capital of Kirin province, to Huining,* a city on the Korean side of the Manchurian-Chosen border, which has so far been realized only in part with the completion of the construction of the Kirin-Tunhua railway in 1927, was first made the subject of agreements with the Japanese Government in 1907 and 1909.* Kainei, in Japanese; Hoiryong, in Korean.

1931, C. Walter Young, “Japanese Loans and Options concerning Manchuria: 1917-1918”, in Japan's Special Position in Manchuria: Its Assertion, Legal Interpretation and Present Meaning‎, published 1971, page 247

Meanwhile, a narrow-gauge railway (2 ft. 6 in), running 69 miles between Huining, on the Korean side, and Tienpaoshan, was promoted as a joint undertaking of the Chinese Government and Japanese private individuals, and its construction was completed in 1924. By an agreement signed on December 24, 1926, the Kirin-Tunhua line, run- ning 130 miles west of Kirin towards Korea was built for China by the South Manchuria Railway Co. as the contractor at a cost of 24,000,000 yen. […] Of the Kirin-Huining Railway of 260 miles, the 130 miles of the Kirin-Tunhua line and 69 miles of light railway from the Korean side to Tienpaoshan have thus far been completed, and about 60 miles separate the two railheads.

1931 April, “Construction of Railways for Chinese”, in Second Report on Progress in Manchuria to 1930‎, Dairen: South Manchuria Railway, page 55

The uncompleted extension of this line from Tunhua to Huining (Kainei) on the Korean border is subject to controversy, with Japan claiming an exclusive right to finance its construction, a right which is not admitted by the Chinese.

1932 April 13, T. A. Bisson, “Railway Rivalries in Manchuria between China and Japan”, in Foreign Policy Reports‎, volume VIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Foreign Policy Association, page 30, columns 1–2