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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast China near the Great Wall northwest of Beijing.
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On Sunday, the eighth day of the near-standstill, trucks moved just over a kilometer (less than a mile) on the worst section, said Zhang Minghai, a traffic director in Zhangjiakou, a city about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of Beijing.
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Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office, said in a telephone interview he didn't expect the situation to return to normal until around Sept. 17 when road construction is scheduled to be finished and traffic lanes will open up.
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The accident occurred near Zhangjiakou city in Hebei province, Xinhua news agency said.
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Xinhua News Agency says 17 other people were injured in the crash early Sunday near Zhangjiakou, a city northwest of Beijing.
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Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
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Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
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Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
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Already, a significant amount of coal transport has shifted from China's overburdened rail lines to its crowded roads, with coal-laden trucks blamed for snarling roads, as with a two-week-long traffic jam that clogged the national highway between Beijing and Zhangjiakou this summer.
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Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
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On Sunday, the eighth day of the near-standstill, trucks moved just over a kilometer (less than a mile) on the worst section, said Zhang Minghai, a traffic director in Zhangjiakou, a city about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of Beijing.
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