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Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺)
Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺, Xi Shun), born 1951, is a Chinese herdsman from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, measured at 2.361 m (7 ft 8.95 in); Guinness World Records' tallest living man 2005-2009, succeeded by Sultan Kösen.
Bao Zhao
Bao Zhao (鲍照), courtesy name Mingyuan, was a poet of the Liu-Song dynasty famous for his yuefu and seven-character verse, killed by mutinous soldiers in 466.
Bao Zheng (包拯)
Bao Zheng (包拯, Bao Gong, Bao Qingtian), 999–1062, Northern Song incorruptible official, censor and Kaifeng prefect famed for impeaching the powerful; later transformed by drama and fiction into the legendary black-faced Judge Bao.
Bao'an
Bao'an (宝安区) is a district on the northwestern coast of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, home to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport and ranked 5th among China's top 100 industrial districts.
Bao'an Ancient City Site
保安古城遗址 (Bao'an ancient city site), also 前古城遗址, a Warring States walled-city site in Bao'an Town, Ye County, Henan; excavated 2007 for Yanshan Reservoir, possibly the Chu city of Juan, national protected site 8-0089-1-089 since 2019.
Baobab
Baobab (Tumble Tree) is a 2012 dexterity card game by Josep M. Allué, published by Piatnik and Blue Orange: 2–4 players aged 6+ balance 108 hidden cards on a tin baobab tree, fewest cards wins; Kinderspiel des Jahres 2013 recommendation.
Baobab (oil field)
Baobab is a deepwater oil and gas field in Block CI-40 off Côte d'Ivoire, discovered in 2001 and producing since 2005 through the FPSO Baobab Ivoirien.
Baobab Books
Baobab Books is the name of two unrelated publishers: a Swiss non-profit children's publisher in Basel, and a Zimbabwean literary publisher founded in Harare in 1988.
Baobab fruit pulp
Baobab fruit pulp (Adansonia digitata), the dry powdery mesocarp of the African baobab fruit, is rich in vitamin C, potassium, calcium, and fiber; EU novel food and US GRAS approved in 2008.
Baobab kids
Baobab kids names several unrelated children's organizations: a Canadian kids yoga company by Karen LeSage, French music channel Baobab Kids TV, a Ukrainian theme park, a UK company, an Australian day care, and a Malmö festival.
Baochang
Baochang (宝唱) was a Liang-dynasty Buddhist monk from Wu Commandery who served Emperor Wu's court, compiling scriptural catalogs and the Biqiuni zhuan on Chinese Buddhist nuns.
Baoding balls (保定健身球)
Baoding balls (保定健身球), Chinese exercise or medicine balls from Baoding, Hebei: pairs of steel, stone, or chiming hollow spheres rotated in one hand for dexterity, hand therapy, and meditation, first of Baoding's three treasures.
Baoding cogen power station
Baoding cogen power station (保定热电厂, Baoding Thermal Power Plant) is a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Baoding, Hebei, China, founded in 1958 and a main winter heat source for the city.
Baoding Zoo
Baoding Zoo (保定市动物园), Hebei, China: a 13-hectare city zoo founded in 1921 as Cao Kun's Chengnan Park, renamed People's Park in 1952, holding 130-plus species, Ming wall remains, and Yuanmingyuan Taihu rocks.
Baoding, Hebei
Baoding (保定市), a prefecture-level city in central Hebei, China, named in 1275 for 'protecting the capital'; 22,000 km², about 11.4 million residents, National Historical and Cultural City near Beijing, with Xiong'an New Area within its territory.
Baogen Shen
Baogen Shen (沈保根), born 1952 in Zhejiang, is a Chinese physicist and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician known for rare-earth permanent magnets and discovering the giant magnetocaloric La(Fe,Si)13 compounds.
Baohua Gu
Baohua Gu is an environmental geochemist and corporate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who studies mercury, uranium, and perchlorate in soils and water, and won a 2004 R&D 100 Award.
Baoji (city)
Baoji (宝鸡) is a prefecture-level city in western Shaanxi, China, at the western end of the Guanzhong Plain, known for its Zhou bronzes and titanium industry.
Baoji Xu
Baoji Xu is a neuroscientist whose laboratory established BDNF as a key regulator of body weight and synaptic plasticity; he has been a professor at UF Scripps since 2022.
Baojia system
The Baojia system (保甲) was a Qing dynasty institution of local control that grouped households in units of ten for policing, taxation, and registration, spread nationwide under the Yongzheng reign.
Baojian Ji
Baojian Ji (宝剑记, The Sword Record) is a 52-scene Ming dynasty chuanqi drama by Li Kaixian (1502–1568), adapted from the Lin Chong story in the novel Water Margin.
Baojin
Baojin (宝金), also known by his hao Bifeng, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji lineage honored by the Yuan and Ming courts, including Emperor Hongwu.
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.