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Bo'ao
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boao Boao
English
Alternative forms
en Boao
en Po-ao Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 博鰲.
Pronunciation
bǔʹouʹ
en Bo ao
Proper noun
en Q391942en town county-level city/Qionghai p/Hainan c/China.
en 1938 Tokyo Gazette https://books.google.com/books?id=yIA0AAAAIAAJ 2 881809007 35 On April 16th, a Japanese landing party, covered by warships and aeroplanes, effected a landing at Poao on the eastern coast of Hainan Island in face of the Chinese force and occupied the port. on
en 1988 Susana Salas Frazier; John G. Frazier, et al. Sea Turtles in Fujian and Guangdong Provinces zh:两栖爬行行动学报<t:Acta Herpetologica Sinica> https://archive.org/details/liangqibaxingdonnew71chen/ 1 China Science Publishing & Media Science Press 1000-3215 21722422 37 https://archive.org/details/liangqibaxingdonnew71chen/page/37/ Beimen beach is just north of Bo'ao port, seaward of the village.
en January 18, 2005 w:David Barboza China's Latest Capitalist Beachhead w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150529185550/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/business/worldbusiness/chinas-latest-capitalist-beachhead.html 0362-4331 1645522 Business And a spectacular international conference center in a resort town called Bo'ao is being promoted as China's answer to Davos, Switzerland, where each January the annual World Economic Forum of business leaders, government officials, activists and intellectuals is held.Investors have taken notice. Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire, is scouting development projects here. And Citic Pacific, a huge Hong Kong conglomerate, plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to develop residential and commercial property in Bo'ao.
en July 29, 2020 Yum China Reaches Milestone of 10,000 Stores w:AP News; w:PR Newswire https://web.archive.org/web/20250712200001/https://apnews.com/article/26a10ccd751f1e470d2a89b6eec5c98b https://apnews.com/article/26a10ccd751f1e470d2a89b6eec5c98b July 12, 2025 Yum China Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “Yum China”) (NYSE: YUMC) today announced that it has reached the milestone of 10,000 stores in its restaurant network across China and overseas. It celebrated at the 10,000th store opening this month in Bo’ao, Hainan province.
en April 21, 2022 China's Xi says international disputes should be resolved via dialogue, not sanctions https://web.archive.org/web/20220421094508/https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-xi-says-international-disputes-should-be-resolved-via-dialogue-not-sanctions/6538799.html 21 April 2022 w:Voice of America In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese president Xi Jinping delivers a speech via video link to the opening ceremony of the Bo'ao Forum For Asia in Bo'ao in southern China's Hainan Province, April 21, 2022.
Translations
town
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 博鰲
Mandarin: cmn 博鰲 Bó'áo
French: fr Bo'ao
en 2-syllable words
French
fr:
Alternative forms
fr Boao
Etymology
fr :bor zh:博鳌
fr zh 博鳌.
Proper noun
1
fr Bo'ao Q391942