Meaning of Pao-t'ou | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

“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.”

“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].”

“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 disocvery^([sic – meaning discovery]) location once bore that name⟳ and is the probable source of the coins.”

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