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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-21-248352
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20210817
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210817
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20210817

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Baidu, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001329099
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, DATA PROCESSING, ETC. [7370]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			E9
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-51469
		FILM NUMBER:		211180893

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		BAIDU CAMPUS, NO. 10 SHANGDI 10TH STREET
		STREET 2:		HAIDIAN DISTRICT
		CITY:			BEIJING
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			100085
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(86-10) 5992 8888

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		BAIDU CAMPUS, NO. 10 SHANGDI 10TH STREET
		STREET 2:		HAIDIAN DISTRICT
		CITY:			BEIJING
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			100085

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Baidu.com, Inc.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20050602
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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>For the month of August 2021 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Commission File Number: 000-51469 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>BAIDU, INC.
</B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Baidu Campus </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>No.&nbsp;10 Shangdi 10th Street </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Haidian District, Beijing 100085 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>The People&#146;s Republic of China </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Address of principal executive offices) </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether
the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Form
20-F&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9746;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Form 40-F&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7):&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Press Release&#151;Baidu Announces Proposed Debt Offering</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
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</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Date: August 17, 2021 </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>Exhibit 99.1 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Baidu Announces Proposed Debt Offering </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">BEIJING, August 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ &#151; Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888) (&#147;Baidu&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;), a leading AI company with
strong Internet foundation, today announced that it has filed a preliminary prospectus supplement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) under an automatic shelf registration statement on Form F-3, pursuant
to which the Company proposes to sell senior notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I></I>The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes,
including repayment of certain existing indebtedness. In addition, the Company plans to use an equivalent amount of the net proceeds to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, one or more of its new or existing Eligible Projects, pursuant to its
Sustainable Finance Framework. This framework will be made available to investors via Baidu&#146;s Corporate ESG website: esg.baidu.com. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The joint
bookrunners of the offering are Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C, BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I></I>This notice is not an offer of
the securities for sale in the United States of America. Any public offering of these securities in the United States will be made by means of a prospectus that contains detailed information about the issuer, which prospectus may be obtained free of
charge from EDGAR on the SEC website at <I>www.sec.gov</I>. Alternatively, the Company, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send an investor the prospectus if the investor requests it by calling Goldman
Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. toll-free at 1-866-471-2526, BofA Securities, Inc. at 1-800-294-1322 or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at 1-212-834-4533. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC and has become effective
under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. <I> </I></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This announcement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall
there be any sale of, these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. The securities referred to herein have
not been and will not be registered under the applicable securities laws of any jurisdiction outside of the United States of America. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>About Baidu
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Founded in 2000, Baidu&#146;s mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company with strong Internet
foundation, trading on the NASDAQ under &#147;BIDU&#148; and HKEX under &#147;9888.&#148; One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A ordinary shares. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the &#147;safe harbor&#148; provisions of the U.S. Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as &#147;may,&#148; &#147;will,&#148; &#147;expects,&#148; &#147;anticipates,&#148; &#147;future,&#148; &#147;intends,&#148; &#147;plans,&#148;
&#147;believes,&#148; &#147;estimates,&#148; &#147;confident,&#148; &#147;is/are likely to&#148; and other similar expressions. Among other things, the description of the proposed offering in this announcement contains forward-looking statements.
Baidu may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the SEC, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or
employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about Baidu&#146;s beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: Baidu&#146;s proposed use of proceeds from the sale of debt
securities; its operations and business prospects, its business and operating strategies and its ability to implement such strategies, its ability to develop and manage its operations and business, competition for, among other things, capital,
technology and skilled personnel, its ability to control costs, its ability to identify and conduct investments and acquisitions, as well as integrate acquired target(s), changes to regulatory and operating conditions in the industry and
geographical markets in which we operate, its dividend policy. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Baidu&#146;s annual report on Form 20-F, Form F-3 and other documents filed with the SEC. Baidu does not undertake an
obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of the press release, and Baidu undertakes no duty to update such information, except as
required under applicable law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Contacts </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Investors
Relations, Baidu, Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Tel: +86-10-5992-8888 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Email:&nbsp;ir@baidu.com </P>
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