A district of Beijing

[Jignesh77]

A district of Beijing is on a "wartime emergency" footing and tourism has been banned in the Chinese capital after a spike in coronavirus cases centred around a food market has sparked fears of a fresh outbreak.

Coronavirus: Beijing shuts food market and goes into 'wartime emergency mode' after spike in COVID-19 cases

Why don't we use "the district of Beijing" as the noun is made specific by "of Beijing"?

Please explain the use of the present perfect "has been banned....".

 

[entangledbank]

It's not (all of) Beijing, or the district of Beijing = the Beijing district, it's one of the (many) districts in Beijing.

 

[DonnyB]

You've actually asked two separate questions here. However....

It's "A" district of Beijung because it's only one of (presumably) a number of them.

And "has been banned" because the authorities have just banned it after the spike in cases occurred. What tense were you thinking of using instead?

[cross-posted]

 

[Jignesh77]

Thanks. So "a" means one of many districts of Beijing , I get that.
The district of Beijing, would that mean:
1. There is only one Beijing district

 

[Barque]

The district of Beijing, would that mean:
1. There is only one Beijing district

It could mean that (1) Beijing is a district, or (2) there's only one district in Beijing, or it could mean one of the districts of Beijing referred to earlier.

I don't know which one you mean since you've used Beijing as an adjective for "district", which makes your sentence ambiguous.

 

[Jignesh77]

Thanks!

 

[dojibear]

"The district of Beijing" would mean "the district whose name is Beijing".

 

[dojibear]

According to websites, Beijing consists of 16 "districts". That is the official government organization of Beijing.

Each of the 16 districts has a name -- for example, one is named the Shunyi District (顺义区). All of the district names end in the word 区, which Google Translate says means "district" or "zone".

The new covid-19 alarm comes from the Xinfadi market, which is in the Chaoyang District in Beijing city. The Chaoyang District has a population of 3.5 million people.

 

[Jignesh77]

Thanks!