ORDOS100 | Baotou City

April 24th, 2008 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: baotou 包头, ordos100, skyline, urbanism

Impression of field trip in the slipstream of the ORDOS100-project. On April 17 movingcities drove through Baotou, the largest city in Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China. The city has an elevation of about 1,050 meters.
In 1937, Baotou was built up into a municipality. Nowadays, Baotou has jurisdiction over nine countries and districts and one national development zone (Rare—earth High—tech Industrial development zone) with a total area of nearly 30,000km² and a population of 2,400,000. (People’s Government of Baotou City)

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