Baode

A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

  1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    • In the past, the Kuochiachuang production brigade of Paote County had to depend on the state for its supply of grain. - [1970 December 16 [1970 December 7], “Shansi Peasants Emulate Tachai, Win Bumper Harvest”, in Daily...
    • 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...
    • 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...

Origin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保德.