I just dropped down into Traverse City at midnight on the 16th. I will stay here about a month and return to Shanghai on August 19th. Maybe it is time for a party. I plan to stay at Mingtown on the 19th and 20th of August. Friends and readers of the blog might consider renting rooms there as well. We could catch up.
I am staying at the Mingtown Etour Youth Hostel. It is great. It is very old, very close to People’s Square, and is beautiful inside. If you are a member of IHA, you can stay for 200 rmb per night. Contact 02-63277766 or mingtown@foxmail.com .
The new Poly Golf course has a competitive rate structure and has completed nine holes. It is expected that the remaining nine holes will be completed by the end of the year. The following pictures show some of the holes on the course and the real estate development surrounding the golf course. The golf course is about forty minutes from the center of Guiyang by bus and faster by taxi.
In Xintian Zhai in the Northeast of Guiyang a new golf course has opened. It is a beautiful place, with many new homes. The clubhouse and driving range are top notch and the course is professionally designed.
Tang Xinling, Cindy, is the Marketing Manager, and if you want to golf there, you can call her at 1515261199005 for a tee time. She can help you talk to a taxi driver and give you other help. Maybe you should bring another Chinese person to help with translations.
Finding the Public Security Bureau, Entry and Exit Administration for processing your visa can be vexing. Often the host will process a foreigner’s, but everybody has final responsibility to make sure it is done right. That is why I recommend visiting the PSB and talking to the enforcement officers personally. Make sure you go before the expiration date on your visa !
The PSB is located behind the Walmart, and taxi drivers know that location. The building is off Lincheng Xilu, which is distinctive in that it has a lot of trees on it. Pictures provided show the area, including bus stations. There is an extraordinarily big rock, with the building shown in the background. When you know what to look for, it is quite easy to find.
“Beautiful Things” project last Saturday featured a lot of minority people’s fashion. The styles are modern and the cloth was local. The venue was the “Time Town” which is a new/old city. The Time Town is a new city that has been build with old European styles to simulate an old city. It has a lot of art, restaurants, and statues. It also features a very large park area and can handle a lot of people.
Speakers at the event featured designers from around the country, including Beijing, as well as the President of Guizhou Normal University.
Spring vacation includes about two weeks of golf in Florida. This is a really good time. The photos are typical of golf courses in Florida.
The Guiyang for Laowai is listed below (prior post) and is a guidebook written by volunteers, all foreigners. It is in it’s third edition and goes obsolete rapidly. There are plenty good restaurants and other places of interest listed, in addition to what you find here. You may need a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to download it. The VPN gets through the firewall an lets you view western sites. I use Astrill ( https://www.astrill.com/ ), but there are several others out there. Astrill runs about $6 or $7 a month which is typical. If you have a friend with “Free” “gate” (spelling intentionally altered) he can probably give you the program, but their website is blocked from China. It’s a free vpn.
I am Jack, and am the administrator of this site. I am rethinking this site and need suggestions for new content, and of course, content contributors. If you have ideas, please contact me at johnsporter@gmail.com .
The construction of the Guiyang-Guangzhou high speed rail has come to an end and its debugging is being carried out to make sure the line is put into operation by the end of the year, the Guiyang-Guangzhou high speed rail scheduling conference was told.
It is expected that the standard speed of the Guiyang-Guangzhou line will be 250 km/h. With a total length of 857 kilometers, the high speed rail will start from north Guiyang, stopping at Longli, Duyun, Danzhai, Rongjiang, Congjiang, Guilin, Gongcheng, Hezhou, Zhaoqing, Sanshui and Foshan, to arrive at its terminal Guangzhou.
There are 21 stops in total, and 8 stops among them are inside Guizhou province.
After completion, the duration from Guiyang to Guangzhou will be reduced to only 4 hours, from as long as 20 hours before.
Tunnels will carry more than 80 percent of the Guiyang-Guangzhou high speed railway. And for convenience, a 3G and 4G network will cover most of the tunnels.
Source: China Daily
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Guiyang-Guangzhou High Speed Railway is a major trunk route selected in the 11th Five Year Plan by the Chinese government. It will allow a fast link between the South-West Chinese provinces of Sichuan,Chongqing, Guizhou
The 857 km route of this railway is more direct than current routes. This is due to the exceptionally difficult and mountainous terrain, making this high-speed project very expensive to construct. Project cost is estimated at 85.8 billion RMB (USD$12.6 billion).[1] This means 209 tunnels are required over the length of this route, some being in excess of 14 km in length.[2] It will pass through the major tourist destinations of Guilin and Yangshuo in Guan
Construction commenced in 2008 and is expected to take 6 years to complete.
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High-speed train to arrive in Guilin this year
The joint commissioning and integrated testing of the Guilin-Liuzhou section of Hengyang-Liuzhou high-speed railway started on July 19, 2013. The Guilin–Liuzhou high-speed rail is expected to open this year, with a travel time of only one hour between the two cities.
The Hengyang-Liuzhou high-speed railway serves as an important part of XiangGui (Hunan to Guangxi) railway expansion renovation project. It is the first one to make the testing and commissioning among the high-speed rails in Guangxi. This 497.9-kilometer-long rail route is expected to put into operation on a trial basis, in August, and be ready to open at the end of 2013.
The Xianggui railway, a 723-kilometer track, links the city of Hengyang, Hunan province and Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi; And, the Guiguang high-speed rail, linking the city of Guiyang, in Guizhou province, with Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, will pass through Guilin.
It is reported that as many as seven high-speed rails in Guangxi are expected to go into service this year. Thus, Guangxi is stepping into an era of high-speed railways. For travelers, it will be possible to enjoy the Guilin sunshine of a morning, go shopping in Guangzhou after 2 hours, and taste the famous Peking duck in the evening.
I visited Rhongjiang and the new Native American Indian English Teacher, Julianne Jennings. She has a magnificent place to live and work.
