Bāo tóu (English spelling)

Japanese: パオトー（英語表記）Bāo tóu

A city in the central part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, about 5km north of the Yellow River, in the central part of the Hetao (Ordos) Plain. Population 1.24 million (1994). At the beginning of the 18th century, it was a village of several dozen houses, but in 1871 (the 10th year of the Tongzhi era), it was built as a city wall and developed into a town. In 1922, with the opening of the railway (Jingbao Line) to Beijing, it became a commercial city for leather and wool trade with Inner Mongolia and the Gansu region. Based on the iron ore of Baiyun Ebo, about 130km north, discovered after the liberation, and coking coal of Shikai in the east, a steel complex was built on the grassland in the west in 1957, and today, the town, which had a population of about 80,000 at the time of liberation, is transformed into an industrial city with industries such as various machinery, automobiles, electricity, textiles, leather, and sugar, centered on steel, which is known as the "Grassland Steel City."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，内モンゴル自治区中部，河套(オルドス)平原中部，黄河の北約5kmの都市。人口124万(1994)。18世紀初めは数十戸の村であったが，1871年(同治10)城壁を築いて町としてから発展，1922年北京との鉄道(京包線)開通により内モンゴルや甘粛地方の皮革･羊毛交易の商業都市となった。解放後発見された北約130kmの白雲鄂博の鉄鉱石や，東の石拐のコークス用炭などを基礎に，1957年から西の草原に鉄鋼コンビナートが建設され，今日では〈草原鋼城〉の称のある鉄鋼を中心に各種機械，自動車，電力，紡織，皮革，製糖などの工業がみられ，解放時人口約8万の町は工業都市に変貌した。

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