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Baotou

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Baotou or Paotow (both: bou-tō), city (1994 est. pop. 1,032,900), Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. A port and major trade center on the Huang He (Yellow River), it is connected by rail with Beijing, Lanzhou, the Republic of Mongolia, and Russia. Vigorous industrialization in the 1960s made it a major manufacturing center. Iron and coal are mined in the vicinity, and the city has a large integrated iron and steel complex as well as sugar refineries, textile mills, and plants making motor vehicles, chemicals, fertilizers, and aluminum.
Baotou, Paotow
an industrial city in N China, in the central Inner Mongolia AR on the Yellow River. Pop.: 1 367 000 (2005 est.)


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Australia has approved a bid by China's Baotou Iron and Steel to take a 40 million dollar (37 million US) stake in a magnetite project run by Centrex, the mining firm said Thursday.
Australia has approved a bid by China's Baotou Iron and Steel to take a 40 million dollar (37 million US) stake in a magnetite project run by Centrex, the mining firm said Thursday.
The Shanghai-bound Bombardier CRJ-200LR jet operated by China Eastern plunged into an icy lake near Baotou Airport in Inner Mongolia shortly after take-off on November 21, 2004, killing 47 passengers, six crew and two people on the ground.
 
 
 
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