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Baotou is literally ‘The land with deer’, or alternatively Lucheng, ’Deer City’. Approaching it on that warm September evening in 1997 to the south appeared a seemingly endless sea of sand bathed in the soft glow of early evening sun. The city, at that time, had an older eastern area but a newer western district, where I would stay, stretched westwards to major industrial works established in the earlier 1950’s as part of China’s drive to develop and modernise its economy. Although nomadic tribes had long moved through the area it was not until 1809 that Baotou was actually incorporated as a town.

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