を中ちゅう心しんにCentered on; focusing on

を中ちゅう心しんに presents a person, place, topic, activity, or other item as the main focus around which a group, activity, area, or plan is organized.

How the center works

The center may be a physical location, but it is often an abstract focus such as a person, policy, industry, or field of activity. The rest of the sentence should show what is arranged, happening, or developing around that center.

Physical and abstract centers

駅えきを中ちゅう心しんに、商しょう店てんや飲いん食しょく店てんが広ひろがっている。

Shops and restaurants spread out around the station.

Analyze

Here the station is a literal geographic center.

若わか手て研けん究きゅう者しゃを中ちゅう心しんに、複ふく数すうの大だい学がくが共きょう同どう調ちょう査さを進すすめている。

Several universities are conducting a joint study, with young researchers playing the central role.

Analyze

A person or group can be the organizing focus rather than a physical midpoint.

再さい生せい可か能のうエネルギーを中ちゅう心しんとした政せい策さく案あんが委い員いん会かいで示しめされた。

A policy proposal focused on renewable energy was presented to the committee.

Analyze

を中ちゅう心しんとした modifies the following noun directly.

Center versus representative example

を中ちゅう心しんに gives one item a central or organizing role. By contrast, をはじめ introduces a representative first example and then expands to a wider set; that first example does not have to organize the others.

大おお阪さかをはじめ、関かん西さいの主しゅ要よう都と市しで説せつ明めい会かいが開ひらかれた。