Paotow

/ ˈpaʊˈtaʊ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Baotou

Example Sentences

Big industrial complexes sprang up at Paotow, Wuhan and Anshan; dams rose to harness the great rivers; some 50 million newly irrigated acres were added to the nation's farmland.

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China is known to have reactors, and both air surveyance and ground spying have reported a large reactor complex near Paotow in Inner Mongolia.

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Government analysts early spotted China's gaseous diffusion plant at Lanchow, the plutonium reactor at Paotow, and the atom-bomb test site at Lop Nor in the Taklamakan wastes of Sinkiang.

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Nationalist troops retreated from Paotow, Western terminus of General Fu Tso-yi's northern corridor through which had funneled grain for Peiping and Tientsin.

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Last week his new masters sent him back to Suiyuan to win over a former subordinate, Nationalist Governor Tung Chi-wu, still holding out in Paotow.

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