Chi-ning

Pinyin �Jining�, Pinyin (Mongolian) �Ulan Qab� town, Inner Mongolia autonomous ch'� (region), China. Before the Communist Revolution of 1949, the town was a minor station named P'ing-ti-ch'�an and was a collecting point on the east-west Peking - Pao-t'ou railway. It experienced phenomenal growth after the completion in 1955 of a trunk railway northward to Erh-lien-hao-t'e on the Mongolian border, linking it with Ulaanbaatar (capital