Paiyun-opo

English Etymology From en cmn 白雲鄂博, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pai²-yün²-o⁴-po². Proper noun 1 1 en Baiyun'ebo (Bayan Obo) en 1966 Proceedings - Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0stAAAAMAAJ 67-72 243896208 66 Paotow owes its chief prosperity to the coalfields of Shensi and Shansi, to iron ore at Paiyun-opo, ninety miles north towards the Gobi, together with the rail links eastwards to Peking and Manchuria. en 1967 Kuei-sheng Chang Geographical Bases for Industrial Development in Northwestern China Cultural Geography: Selected Readings https://archive.org/details/culturalgeograph0000dohr/ w:Thomas Y. Crowell Company 2nd printing 67-26837 301457995 384 https://archive.org/details/culturalgeograph0000dohr/page/384/ At the other end of the Pao-t'ou-Lan-chou railway and further beyond lie the rich deposits at Paiyun-opo near Pao-t’ou, and the Lung-yen iron mines at Hsüan-hua which have already been supplying the steel industry in Peiping. en 1974 D. J. Dwyer China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/ w:Longman 0-582-48076-0 73-87225 963067253 5438328M 223 https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/page/223/ Based on local iron ore from Paiyun-opo and coal from Shih-kuai-kou, and again with ‘all-round Soviet assistance’, Pao-t’ou has been made the largest steel town on the Mongolian Plateau [26]. The role it was about to play became clear when the construction of the Pao-t’ou—Lan-chou Railway was begun in 1954 and, like that of several other vital lines, was completed well ahead of schedule [27]. en