English

Noun

bingtuan

1. In China, a construction and corporation composed of soldiers, especially working-class ones.
   • 2009 August 22, Edward Wong, “Workers Return to Restive China Region”, in New York Times:

     The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the state enterprise that runs the bingtuan , the vast farms set up in the 1950s and afterward by the People’s Liberation Army to help populate the frontier region, reported a drop in the number of migrants going to Xinjiang after the July riots.