Paotow

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn - 包頭 Bāotóu. Pronunciation bouʹtōʹ Proper noun en Baotou. en https://archive.org/details/chinabuildsforde0000snow/mode 1941 China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry Nym Wales Modern Age Books, Inc. New York 255 https://archive.org/details/chinabuildsforde0000snow/page/254/mode/ Much of the wool and camel’s hair produced in the Northwest is sent to Paotow, Suiyuan, to be shipped to Tientsin for export. Before hostilities about 15,000,000 catties were shipped annually from Paotow, of a total export of some 50,000,000 catties. en https://archive.org/details/landof500million0000cres/mode 1955 Land of the 500 Million; A Geography of China George B. Cressy McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. 93 https://archive.org/details/landof500million0000cres/page/92/mode/ Between Paotow and Kweisui in the northeastern corner of the Ordos Desert, hundreds of miles of irrigation canals were dug during the 1920’s with the hope of irrigating several hundred thousand acres. Large amounts of government and famine relief money were invested, and modern engineering works were constructed. The project proved largely a failure and is now almost abandoned. en 1965 The Land China The World and Its Peoples https://archive.org/details/lccn_65-10536/ New York Greystone Press 65-10536 127 https://archive.org/details/lccn_65-10536/page/127/ 1 Figures issued for production show that pig iron amounted to 20,500,000 tons in 1959 and steel to 15,000 tons, in 1961. The industry is concentrated in about 20 factories of varying capacity. The largest is at AnshamAnshan in Liaoning and other important centers are Wuhan in HopehHupeh and Paotow in Mongolia. en 1966 w:James E. Sheridan Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang https://archive.org/details/chinesewarlordca0000sher/mode w:Stanford University Press 65-18978 807322335 153 https://archive.org/details/chinesewarlord0000unse/page/153/ Economic development of the Northwest required the creation of transportation facilities whereby settlers could reach virgin lands and their products could be brought out. Feng immediately attacked this problem by building a 400-mile motor road from Paotow, the western terminus of the Peking-Suiyuan Railway, to Ninghsia, where the Great Wall meets the western side of the Yellow River’s great loop. 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 1978 Paotow D. A. Girling w:Everyman's Encyclopaedia https://archive.org/details/everymansencyclo0000unse_e2h1/ 6th J M Dent & Sons Ltd 9 0460040219 867361296 328 https://archive.org/details/everymansencyclo0000unse_e2h1/page/n335/ 2 This section of the line opened up areas rich in minerals which have since contributed to Paotow’s industrial development. Coal comes to the city from Shihtsuishan in Ningsia Hui autonomous region, for example. Translations Baotou Further reading