Example sentences for: xiamen

How can you use “xiamen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A prosperous place owing to its close connections with overseas Chinese investors (many of whom emigrated from the area), Xiamen has wisely spared much of its downtown and harbor from the bulldozers of progress.

  • China’s cleanest major city (according to an official poll) and one of its most charming, Xiamen is a port city located in Fujian Province, hardly a heartbeat from Taiwan across the East China Sea.

  • (By comparison, the city of Xiamen has over 600,000 residents and is a rampaging metropolis.)

  • South of the temple and past Xiamen University (founded in 1921 by a local who made good in Singapore) is the Huli Mountain Cannon Platform.

  • Throughout the 1990s, a vast syndicate that included prominent Communist party officials, members of the Chinese military, and business leaders, smuggled an estimated ten billion dollars worth of cars, oil, and high-tech hardware into China through the port of Xiamen.


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