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

1. Alternative form of Baiyun'ebo (Bayan Obo)
   • 1966, Proceedings - Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch‎^[1], volumes 67-72, →OCLC, 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, Kuei-sheng Chang, “Geographical Bases for Industrial Development in Northwestern China”, in Cultural Geography: Selected Readings‎^[2], 2nd printing, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[3], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.