Baode

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保德.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʊ.di/, /-də/, /-deɪ/
  • enPR: bouʹdǔʹ[1]

Proper noun

Baode

  1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    • [1970 December 16 [1970 December 7], “Shansi Peasants Emulate Tachai, Win Bumper Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 243, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, North Region, page F 5[2]:
      In the past, the Kuochiachuang production brigade of Paote County had to depend on the state for its supply of grain.]
    • [2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:
      The bronzes found at Ch'ao-tao-kou - a dagger with a decorated handle and a ram-head pommel, an ax with a tubular socket, and four knives with arched backs decorated with pommels in the form of a rattle or a ram-head knob - and at analogous sites, such as Lin-che-yü (Pao-te county, Shensi),³⁰ have contributed greatly to defining the Northern Zone as a distinct cultural complex.]
    • 2005, Elizabeth Economy, “Environmental Enforcement in China”, in Kristen A. Day, editor, China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:
      In 2003 in Shanxi Province, the director of the Xuanbo Joint Cokeoven Plant ordered his workers to attack a television reporter from CCTV who was investigating pollution at the plant. The reporter was rescued by a SEPA delegation that arrived shortly thereafter, which then ordered the local environmental enforcement group in Baode County to protect his right to investigate.
    • 2011 July 20, “China to add 1 mln tonnes of alumina capacity -NDRC”, in Reuters[5], archived from the original on 24 November 2023, Commodities:
      The National Development and Reform Commission has approved Shanxi Tongde Aluminium Company's plan to build a 1 million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Baode county in Shanxi province in the north, a statement posted on the commission website showed. It did not provide the completion time.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paoteh or Pao-te”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1425, column 2

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