Paiyun-opo
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 白雲鄂博／白云鄂博 (Báiyún Èbó), Wade–Giles romanization: Pai²-yün²-o⁴-po².
Proper noun
Paiyun-opo
- Alternative form of Baiyun'ebo (Bayan Obo)
- 1966, Proceedings - Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, volume 67-72, OCLC 243896208, page 66:
- Paotow owes its chief prosperity to the coalfields of Shensi and Shansi, to iron ore at Paiyun-opo, ninety miles north towards the Gobi, together with the rail links eastwards to Peking and Manchuria.
- 1967, Chang, Kuei-sheng, “Geographical Bases for Industrial Development in Northwestern China”, in Cultural Geography: Selected Readings, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, LCCN 67-26837, OCLC 301457995, page 384:
- At the other end of the Pao-t'ou-Lan-chou railway and further beyond lie the rich deposits at Paiyun-opo near Pao-t’ou, and the Lung-yen iron mines at Hsüan-hua which have already been supplying the steel industry in Peiping.
- 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, LCCN 73-87225, OCLC 963067253, OL 5438328M, page 223:
- Based on local iron ore from Paiyun-opo and coal from Shih-kuai-kou, and again with ‘all-round Soviet assistance’, Pao-t’ou has been made the largest steel town on the Mongolian Plateau [26]. The role it was about to play became clear when the construction of the Pao-t’ou—Lan-chou Railway was begun in 1954 and, like that of several other vital lines, was completed well ahead of schedule [27].
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Paiyun-opo.
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