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Baotou or Paotow (both: bou-tō), city (1994 est. pop. 1,032,900), Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. A port and major trade center on the Huang He (Yellow River), it is connected by rail with Beijing, Lanzhou, the Republic of Mongolia, and Russia. Vigorous industrialization in the 1960s made it a major manufacturing center. Iron and coal are mined in the vicinity, and the city has a large integrated iron and steel complex as well as sugar refineries, textile mills, and plants making motor vehicles, chemicals, fertilizers, and aluminum. |
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Upon completion of the new plant, the Company will begin producing 3,000 tons a year of rare earth magnetic alloys in China, together with its existing plant in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. In November 2004, 47 passengers and six crew members died in the crash of a Bombardier regional jet flown by China Eastern Airlines in Baotou, in China's northern Inner Mongolia region. This study was carried out in Gangfangying village, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, where high concentrations of arsenic (up to 1,790 [micro]g/L) were present in tube-well water from the end of the 1970s to August 1999. |
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