Pao-t'ou

English Etymology From en cmn 包頭 Bāotóu, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pao¹-tʻou².Baotou, Wade-Giles romanization Pao-t’ou, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 360 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/360/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesPaotow (Pao-t’ou, Baotou) Pronunciation bouʹtōʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Baotou. en 1929 w:Owen Lattimore The Desert Road to Turkestan https://archive.org/details/desertroadtoturk0000latt/ Boston Little, Brown, and Company 482175716 82–83 https://archive.org/details/desertroadtoturk0000latt/page/83/ He told us that we were about a hundred miles north and somewhat west of Pao-tʻou, and that the main road out of Pao-tʻou converged on our route. en https://www.jstor.org/stable/1794831 1963 The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949 129 3 w:The Geographical Journal 0016-7398 1794831 781786946 333 Further to the west are several new mines associated with recent railway builind and the drive to develop industrial centres in the interior. At Shih-kuai-kou (Shihkwaikow), convenient to supply the new steel-works at Pao-t'ou (Paotow), the first three shafts were sunk in 1958. Reserves there are put at 700 million tons. 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 1995 March Joseph E. Boling Far East Numismatic Literature https://archive.org/details/NumismaticLiteratureVol133to134Year1995/ 133 0-89722-256-3 0029-6031 804504444 42 https://archive.org/details/NumismaticLiteratureVol133to134Year1995/page/n62/ The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocverydiscovery location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins. Translations Baotou References Further reading Pao-t'ou