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Baopuzi
Baopuzi (抱朴子) is a fourth-century Chinese work by Ge Hong, with inner chapters on Daoist alchemy and immortality and outer chapters on Confucian government and conduct.
Baoquan hydroelectric plant
Baoquan hydroelectric plant (宝泉抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped storage power plant in Huixian, Henan, China, with four 300 MW units and a 1,200 MW capacity, in operation since 2011.
Baoshan Chu slips
The Baoshan Chu slips (包山楚简) are 278 inscribed Warring States bamboo slips excavated in 1987 from a tomb at Baoshan, Hubei, the working papers of a Chu court official.
Baoshan Iron & Steel
Baoshan Iron & Steel (宝钢股份), commonly called Baosteel, is China's largest listed steelmaker, the flagship of state-owned China Baowu, based in Shanghai and listed there in 2000.
Baoshan Shi
Baoshan Shi (保山市), a prefecture-level city in western Yunnan, China, bordering Myanmar (167.78 km); seat Longyang District, 498 km from Kunming; area 19,637 km²; population about 2.4 million; GDP 1347.01亿元 (2025). Distinct from villages named Baoshan in Hainan and Taiwan.
Baoshan Works power station
Baoshan Works power station is the captive power plant of the Baoshan steel works in Shanghai, China, replacing three old units with two 650 MW ultra-supercritical coal units approved in 2024.
Baoshan Xing
Baoshan Xing is an environmental and soil chemist who directs the Stockbridge School of Agriculture and studies organic chemicals, nanomaterials, and microplastics in soils and plants at UMass Amherst.
Baoshan, Shanghai
Baoshan (宝山区) is Shanghai's northern gateway district at the Yangtze-Huangpu confluence, formed in 1988 from Baoshan County and Wusong District. It hosts Asia's largest cruise terminal, 2.27 million residents, and a planned 2027 high-speed rail hub.
Baoshan, Yunnan
Baoshan (保山), formerly Yongchang, is a prefecture-level city in western Yunnan, China, bordering Myanmar (167.78 km). Ancient Southern Silk Road hub, 19,637 km², 2.374 million people (2025), GDP 134.7 billion yuan, Gaoligong Mountain biodiversity, Tengchong volcanoes and hot springs.
Baotang school of Chan
The Baotang school of Chan (保唐宗) was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist school founded by the monk Wuzhu, known for rejecting formal precepts and rites.
Baotianman Biosphere Reserve
Baotianman Biosphere Reserve (寶天曼), Neixiang County, Henan, China: UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2001, first in Henan; transition-zone forest between subtropical and warm temperate zones with 2,925 plant and 359 vertebrate species.
Baotou
Baotou (包头, from Mongolian Baoketu, 'place with deer', 'Deer City') is a prefecture-level city in western Inner Mongolia bordering Mongolia, a steel, rare-earth and aluminum industrial hub known as the 'Steel City on the Grassland'.
Baotou Aluminum power station
Baotou Aluminum power station (中铝包头铝业自备热电厂) is the captive coal-fired power station of Baotou Aluminum Co. in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, with an installed capacity of 1,710 MW.
Baotou Amusement Park
Baotou Amusement Park (包头乐园), opened September 2007 in Kundulun District, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, is a 560-million-yuan theme park with eight themed zones, about 60 rides, and the 88-meter "Baotou Eye" Ferris wheel.
Baotou East Hope power station
The Baotou East Hope power station is a six-unit captive coal-fired plant in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, commissioned in 2003 and supplying the adjacent East Hope aluminum smelter.
Baotou Hexi power station
Baotou Hexi power station (华电包头发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power station in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, with two 600 MW units in service since 2006 and owned by China Huadian.
Baotou-2 power station
Baotou-2 power station (华能北方联合电力包头第二热电厂) is a 1,000 MW coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Qingshan District, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, with four units commissioned between 2004 and 2007.
Baotown
Baotown (小鲍庄) is a 1985 novella by the Chinese writer Wang Anyi, set in a Huaibei plain village and regarded as a representative work of the root-seeking movement.
Baoulé
Baoulé names several West African rivers, chiefly a Niger-basin tributary rising in Côte d'Ivoire that forms the Bani with the Bagoé, a Bakoye tributary in Mali, plus the Baoulé people and V Baoulé region of Côte d'Ivoire.
Baowen Li
Baowen Li (李保文), born in Mile, Yunnan, China, is a physicist known as a pioneer of phononics, credited with inventing the thermal diode and a founder of thermal metamaterials research.
Baoyi Qaghan
Baoyi Qaghan (保義可汗) ruled the Uyghur Khaganate from 808 to 821, its height, after defeating Tibet as a general and taking Liang province in 808.
Baoyuan Decoction
保元汤 (Baoyuan Decoction), a classical Chinese medicine qi-tonifying formula from Sun Zhihong's Jianming Yiyao, contains ginseng, astragalus, licorice, cinnamon, and ginger; studied for heart failure, myocardial protection, immunity, and anti-aging effects.
Baozhi
Baozhi (寶誌) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Southern Dynasties, conventionally dated 418–514, famed as a miracle worker and revered as an incarnation of the bodhisattva Guanyin.
Baozi (包子)
Baozi (包子), Chinese steamed stuffed bun: yeast-leavened dough wrapped around meat, vegetable, or sweet fillings and steamed; distinct from plain mantou, with northern, southern, and Guangdong styles, famous brands like Goubuli, and a large frozen-food industry.
BAP
BAP, officially Niedeckens BAP since 2014, is a Cologne rock band founded in 1976 by Wolfgang Niedecken that sings in Kölsch and holds 13 German number-one albums.
BAP1
BAP1 (BRCA1-associated protein 1) is a UCH-family deubiquitinase and major tumor suppressor on chromosome 3p21.3 that deubiquitinates H2AK119ub; germline mutations cause BAP1 tumor predisposition syndrome with mesothelioma and uveal melanoma.
Bapco
Bapco, formally the Bahrain Petroleum Company, is the national oil company of Bahrain, founded in 1929, which discovered the Arabian Gulf's first oil in 1932 and runs the Sitra refinery.
Baphomet
Baphomet: name of an idol Templars were accused of worshipping at their 1307 trials, likely a corruption of Mahomet; later the goat-headed Sabbatic Goat drawn by Eliphas Lévi in 1856, adopted by Crowley, the Church of Satan, and The Satanic Temple.
Baphuon
Baphuon (ប្រាសាទបាភួន) is a three-tiered 11th-century temple mountain in Angkor Thom, Cambodia, built as the state temple of King Udayadityavarman II and dedicated to Shiva.
Baphuon style
The Baphuon style is a style of Khmer art and architecture of the Angkor era, named after the Baphuon temple and placed in the 11th century.