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Nanning , city (1994 est. pop. 829,400), capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, S China, on the Xi River in a fertile farming area. The city has a medium-sized integrated iron and steel complex, a sugar refinery, other food-processing plants, and factories making fertilizer, machine tools, paper, cement, and farm machinery. The city is on the Hunan-Guangxi RR to Vietnam and was an important base for supplies going to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Guangxi Univ., a medical college, and an agricultural institute are there.

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Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region/China Yongzhou ‘Southern Peace’ from nán and níng ‘peaceful’. It was in 1324, under Mongol rule, that the city received its present name. During the Republican period, in 1914–46, the city was named Yongning County after the Yong River on which it lies. The earlier name was readopted in 1946.

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