Category: Chinese Culture

The 23rd Qingdao Int’l Beer Festival

People drink beers during the 23rd Qingdao International Beer Festival in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 25, 2013. The 16-day 23rd Qingdao International Beer Festival closed on Sunday, in which more than 300 kinds of beers attracted about 4 million people from home and abroad.

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Fees charged for returning train tickets in China

Fees charged for returning tickets will also be changed. Passengers will be charged a rate equal to 5 percent of their ticket's price if they return the ticket 48 hours or earlier before the train's departure. A 10-percent rate will be charged if a return occurs within 48 hours leading to the departure but 24 hours before it. A return within 24 hours before departure is subject to a 20-percent rate.

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Attendance at the School Athletics Opening Ceremony

It is time of year at Guangxi(广西Guǎngxī) Normal University (located in Guilin(桂林Guìlín)), when the weather dries out, the sky is seemingly died an inky(inky means black or very dark blue) blue and street vendors selling juicy slices of watermelon are replaced with vendors selling thick pieces of sugar-cane covered in black husk(a husk is the outer covering of a grain or a seed), it's also the time of year when our university holds its annual school-wide athletics championships(a championship is a competition to find the best player or team in a particular sport).

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Rural Life Experience Tour to Lipu of Guilin

It had been winter time in Chine, climate of Guilin(桂林Guìlín) was still temperate, ranging from 28 degree centigrade to about 12 degree centigrade. Long heard about Lipu, which was renowned for its huge and delicious Lipu Taros, we decided to have a rural life experience tour the last weekend.

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Fudan University 复旦大学

Fudan University(复旦大学:Fùdàn dàxué), located in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai, is one of China's most prestigious learning institutions. Fudan, founded in 1905, takes its name from a famous line in the Confucian classic(儒家经典:rújiā jīnɡdiǎn) – The Book of History(史记:Shǐ jì): Brilliant are the sunshine and moonlight, again the morning glory after a night. Fudan's name thus means ever pushing forward with renewed energy.

Fudan University is under the direct jurisdiction of the State Ministry of Education, enjoys national construction priority. Fudan University and Shanghai Medical University(上海医科大学:Shànɡhǎi yīkē dàxué) merged into a new Fudan University in April, 2000. Fudan University is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary research university with many highly-ranked majors and programs.

Fudan University consists of 29 schools and departments, with seventy undergraduate disciplines. The University confers bachelor's degrees in seventy academic disciplines, and master's degrees in two hundred and twenty five disciplines (with fifty of them established by the University itself), and doctoral degrees in twenty-four Level I and one hundred and fifty-three Level II academic disciplines (with twenty-nine of them established by the University itself). There are also twenty-five research stations that offer postdoctoral fellowships.

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Ten Best Hiking Resorts of China

Medog Walking Track – experience an ancient county by foot The Medog is famous as one of China's most popular walking tracks. Its undeveloped road-net protects it from disturbing from outside world. In Tibetan Medog means "hidden lotus flower". This winding Tibetan track takes about nine days to walk from Linzhi(林芝Línzhī) to 80K and takes trekkers through some of Tibet's most picturesque(a picturesque place is attractive and interesting, and has no ugly modern buildings) plateau landscape. The often erratic weather and difficult walking conditions are best suited to advanced hikers.

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