Bao Chunlai (Simplified Chinese: 鲍春来, pinyin: Bào Chūnlái, born February 17, 1983 in Changsha, Hunan province) is a male, left-handed badminton player from the People's Republic of China.
Bao played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, defeating Shoji Sato of Japan in the first round. In the round of 16, Bao was himself defeated by Park Tae-sang of Korea.
Bao reached the men's singles final at the 2006 IBF World Championships losing the final against Lin Dan. In 2007 he reached semi-final in the Korea Open Super Series.
After 15 months since he won the Korean Open in 2006, Bao finally ended his long title drought at the China Open on 25 November 2007 by defeating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, in straight games 21-12, 21-13.
