Bao'an District (Chinese: 宝安, pinyin: Bǎo Ān) 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. Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard... District, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... The hazy Shenzhen skyline Shenzhen (Chinese: 深圳; pinyin: ; Cantonese Jyutping: sam1 zan3, Yale: sām jan; Sham Chun or Shamchun in old or Hong Kong documents; lit. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... A province, in the context of China, is a translation of sheng (省 shÄ›ng), which is an administrative division of China. ... Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Chinese: 深圳经済特区), established in May 1980, is one of the five special economic zones in the Peoples Republic of China. ... Longgang (龍崗) is one of the six districts of the Shenzhen sub-provincial city, in Guangdong Province, southern China. ...

The district is the site of Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (深圳宝安国际机场). Shenzhen Baoan International Airport or Huangtian Airport (CCA and SZX) is located in Huangtian Village, Baoan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, the Peoples Republic of China. ...

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). The Subdistrict is one of the smallest Political_divisions_of_China. ...

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).

References

South China Morning Post, Police struggle to cope with Shenzhen crime wave, December 31, 2005.