Bao'an
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- Bao'an County was the predecessor of the modern city of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
- See Bao'an (Shaanxi) for the former county of Shaanxi Province, China, now known as Zhidan County.
- Bao'an is also another spelling for the Bonan people, a Nationality of China.
Bao'an District (Chinese: 宝安区, Bǎo'ān-qū) is one of the six districts comprising Shenzhen, a major economic city in Guangdong Province, China. It is one of two districts lying outside the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, alongside Longgang. With 5 million people, Bao'an is Shenzhen's largest district.
The district is the site of Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (深圳宝安国际机场).
Bao'an District contains seven subdistricts: Baocheng (宝城), Xixiang (西乡), Longhua (龙华), Guanlan (观澜), Gungming (公明), Songjiang (松岗), Guangming (光明), Shajing (沙井), Fuyong (福永) and Shiyan (石岩).
Bao'an has a notoriously bad security record. Since the turn of the millennium the district has seen a string of high-profile abductions, robberies, and other cases of violent crime (source: SCMP 2005-12-31, see below).
[edit] References
South China Morning Post, Police struggle to cope with Shenzhen crime wave, December 31, 2005.
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| Outside Special Economic Zone: Bao'an | Longgang | |
