Taching

Proper noun

1. Alternative form of Daqing (Prefecture-level City)
   • That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long...
2. Alternative form of Daqing (Oil Field)
   • Taching is supposed to be accounting for about a third of the total mainland oil output. - 1973 April 29, “Red petroleum output is inadequate”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
   • A 221‐mile oil pipeline has been completed from the North China port of Chinhuangtao to Peking, the official Hsinhua news agency reported today. Hsinhua said it is part of a 937‐mile pipeline from the Taching oil field...
   • Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis. - 1993, Bih-jaw...