Baode
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保德.
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Baode
- A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
- [2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History[1], 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[2], →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[3], 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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- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paoteh or Pao-te”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1425, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baode”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 2