Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada 贵阳中加新世界国际学校

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Ray

Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada 贵阳中加新世界国际学校

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videos about Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada:

high school graduation of Beijing main school, then scenes of the new Guiyang branch 贵阳中加新世界国际学校学校,v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDQyNTU5MDA4.html

Guiyang televison news announcement about the opeing of Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada 贵阳新闻联播中加学校,v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDI4OTkxNjI0.html

邮编：550023
邮箱：441932845@qq.com
电话：0851-2218059
联系地址：贵州省贵阳市金阳新区金阳北路新世界花园
AKD International Educations Inc Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada| contact us: zsb@ccsc.com.cn
School address: Jinzhu WestRoad, New World Terrace, Guanshan lake District, Guiyang, Guizhou
Office of Admission ：(86-851) 221-8058 221-8059
The whole nation hotline：400-659-8882

School Introduction

(2012-7-19)

Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada 贵阳中加新世界国际学校 (GCCSC) is the first 12 years of consistent system of international schools, combined with high-quality curriculum and educational resources in China and Canada to create a joint education sector by the governments of the two countries. The school set up a high school, junior high school department and Primary Section. The school is located in Guiyang, Jinyang New District, New World Garden, adjacent to Jinyang Foreign Language Experimental School, and Jinyang Experimental Primary School of Foreign Languages. School China for the Chinese and Canadian governments certification school cooperative education Guiyang Jinyang New District Education Bureau Jinyang Foreign Language Experimental School, and Jinyang Experimental Primary School of Foreign Languages, the Canadian side for the Ministry of Education of the provincial government of New Brunswick, Canada, and Canada Emperor international Education Group. As approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the country　s first Sino-foreign cooperative education institution, since 1997, China and Canada education brand has opened in Beijing, BeijingCCSC, Shenzhen (Nanshan) branch school, Shenzhen CCSC, school Hunan, Guizhou and Canada, and GCCSC. The schools aim to absorb the essence of Eastern and Western cultures, melt the essence of Chinese and Western education system, and build mainly Chinese courses, the financial add courses for one of the courses system, promote deeper cooperation on education in China and Canada. School characteristics and educational advantages by virtue of “dual enrollment”, “dual school system, “, ” double degree “export” nearly 10,000 high school graduates for many years to universities at home and abroad. University admission rates have remained at 100%, universities scholarships rate has remained at 83%, has made remarkable school performances and met educational outcomes, the full affirmation of the parents and the community. The school has been hailed by many parents and teachers as students grow in a harmonious paradise, state-of-the-art facilities of international Gakuen. Safe and warm living homes cultivate the cradle of international talent. ”
Schools to implement the president responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors, the school chairman, vice chairman, school legal representatives, principals, Canadian principal by senior education specialist reputation as the Government selected. (Chinese teachers appointed by Chinese teachers from other school campuses combined in partnership with foreign teachers provide the backbone of an outstanding coalition of teachers.)
School teachers from the two parts of the Chinese teachers and foreign teachers, appointed by Chinese teachers from school campuses and partners the teaching backbone, combined with outstanding teachers nationwide coalition of. The Canadian Principal and foreign teachers strictly selected by the Ministry of Education of the provincial government of New Brunswick, Canada are experienced and fully certified teachers in Canada. The Canadian Principal is responsible for Canadian student enrollment management, curriculum management in Canada issuing Canadian diplomas.

The schools full adoption of state-of-the-art interactive electronic smart board lectures, replace the traditional blackboard uses, to become the first electronically equipped classrooms. The incorporation of new media into the classroom, with the full realization of the computer network teaching, classroom media teaching, enrich the content of the classroom teaching, improve student interest in learning, and promote a better classroom teaching heuristic, interacting changes in teaching styles, self-learning, and to make the classroom more exciting, vivid and efficient.

State-of-the-art teaching facilities, classrooms, laboratories, computer network rooms, multimedia configuration class and other various function rooms, complete the learning environment. Our school provides a student dormitory equipped with an adequate supply of hot water, air conditioning, fan, bathroom and sanitary equipment. The school canteen provides nutritious and safe meals to ensure student nutrition. Teachers co-ordinate the management of daily life of the students and their spare time and recreational activities. A nutritionist makes reasonable arrangements for the meals. Moral education teachers care about the students, the school doctor according to plan prevention, health care, security personnel day and night duty, to create a new school teaching management, life services new model. Day and night security personnel are on site at all times, to create a new type of school teaching management, the new mode of life services.

(from www.giccsc.com/english/show.aspx?n_id=64 )
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Admissions Conditions and Charges
招生条件

学校独立自主面向全市招生，以贵阳市生源为主兼收部分同边地市州学生（含在国内的外籍学生及海外华侨子女，不受户口限制）。凡身心健康、学习态度端正、智力发育正常、思想品德良好、成绩优秀的适龄学生均可报名。2012年秋季计划招收小学一年级2个班、二年级1个班，初中一年级2个班，高中一年级2个班。

报名与录取

小学一年级新生免笔试，接受面试和英语测试，同步进行智力测试与体育测试；初中一年级新生需参加学校英语、数学、语文入学测试，卷面满分200分，考试时间120分钟，其中英语、数学各75分，语文50分，根据测试成绩择优录取；高中一年级新生凭当地中考成绩择优录取，其成绩需达到卷面总分的70%以上，同时需进行学校英语水平测试，测试成绩合格者择优录取。各年级入学水平测试时间由学校另行通知。
1、凡报考贵阳中加新世界国际学校的学生，均须完整填写《中加学校入学申请表》，同时提供原就读学校成绩单、学生评价手册、户口本或身份证复印件、一寸照片2张，报名费及入学审核测试费免收。
2、具有贵阳市金阳新区户籍，以及贵阳新世界花园业主子女，同等条件下优先录取。
3、贵阳中加新世界国际学校为住读式新型国际学校，根据相关规定如果录取后体检不合格、传染病带菌或有不良嗜好行为者，将取消录取或退学。
4、高一年级被录取并全部完成注册手续的新生，学校计划在暑期安排2-3周的高中先修课程辅导班，以适应高中阶段全英文教学并熟悉加方课程体系及要求，学校免收课程辅导及资料费（具体日期及方式由学校另行通知）。

学位定金

申请就读贵阳中加新世界国际学校各年级学位可选择两种方式交纳学位定金：①申请人交纳学位定金10000元，学位可保留至7月15日；②申请人交纳学位定金20000元，学位可保留至8月15日，并可同时获得分数段（10分为一分数段）优先录取。录取后定金冲抵学杂费，未被学校录取者，8月31日后凭定金收据全额退还。正式录取者，学杂费余款需在录取通知书规定日期内交付，逾期交付作自愿放弃入学资格处理。

收费标准

小学：实验班学杂费21000元/年，国际班学杂费26000元/年（走读生，含伙食费、校服费、校车费、体检费、中加两国教材等费用，不含境外学习交流费用），寄宿生需另交住宿费3000元/年。
初中：实验班学杂费23000元/年，国际班学杂费29000元/年（走读生，含伙食费、校服费、校车费、体检费、中加两国教材等费用，不含境外学习交流费用），寄宿生需另交住宿费3000元/年。
高中：学杂费49000元/年（含住宿费、伙食费、校服费、校车费、体检费、中加两国教材、军训等费用，不含境外学习交流及管理费用），学生可自愿申请加拿大高中学历认证，一次性费用为3750美元。
周末双休日期间如需住校的学生，需另交活动管理费5000元/年。注：收费标准如有调整，以物价主管部门的批复为准。

(from www.giccsc.com/english/show.aspx?n_id=22 )
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Canadian Education Delegation visited our school

On July 12th, 2013, Mr. John McLaughlin,NB Vice Minister of Education and his wife Ms. Catharine McLaughlin, Mr. Terry Currie,Supervisor of AEI , Dr. Francis Pang,Chairman of the Board of AKD International Education Inc. ,Mr.Vincent Pang,Executive Consultant of SCCSC,Mr. Andy Truong,Executive Director of BCCSC and ACCSC,and Vice Principal of SCCSC Ms. Du Juan visited our school and Guanshanhu Foreign Language Experimental Middle School.

After visiting our Admission Office, the sample classroom, the ladder classroom and English Department ,Canadian education delegation pointed out that our campus had beautiful environment ,it’s clean and tidy, equipped with excellent hardware facilities.and they thought the school spirit was harmony, especially after watching a theme class meeting of Grade Seven . It fully demonstrated the unity and friendship among the students in our school,. They also gave the full affirmation and high praise to school-running characteristics and quality in education of our school , and hoping that we could make great progress in the future.
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Junior high School

Middle school in the fully opened Chinese courses prescribed by the Canadian national curriculum standards offer English, information science, computer, and other additional Canadian courses and elective courses taught in English by foreign teachers. At the same time the school aims to strengthen the English teaching for non-English subjects, in particular the implementation of the natural sciences courses, English immersion and bilingual teaching. Bilingual teaching begins with a focus on the use of specialized words, to the formulation of the basic concepts and principles, to the classroom exercises using English and bilingual proposition exam. Students gradually develop bilingual learning and thinking habits so that students develop a more prominent international foundation. At the same time, the school also takes advantage of the summer to organize international summer camp activities, to broaden and develop students　 international perspectives.

Bilingual Experimental Middle School opened classes and international courses on the implementation of small class teaching, a meticulous management mode so that each student can get more attention and counseling, and comprehensively improve academic results. In addition to the opening of the school in plus two bilingual, special courses are also offered outside of the regular courses such as piano, calligraphy, chess and other interest group activities. A variety of elective courses, formulated with added features, is conducive to the development of students with international education standards of the education system. Students enroll in the future foreign elite, and international compound talents to provide a strong guarantee for graduates entering in helicopter school high school learning.

The internationalization of education is the basis for the optimal combination of Chinese and Western education in Canadian schools. The development of strategic policy of the school education is also a priority and schools strictly enforce the state compulsory education lesson plans, curriculum based on the comprehensive set up the rules of the national curriculum standards, additional language and literature in Canada, health, science, and computer courses. To implement the dual mother-tongue teaching courses, served as foreign teachers, the Chinese teachers from a number of innovative, energy, enthusiasm, excellent teachers by the Ministry of Education qualification in the Canadian province of teachers, so that students gradually develop good thinking habits in a strong bilingual learning environment, especially in professional English reading, which has been significantly improved to improve their English communication and ability to communicate. Students therefore learn the courses of a more prominent basic and comprehensive international education style. Students who graduate from elementary school can directly enter our middle and high school to continue learning. secondary schools in Guiyang City can also choose to continue to learn.

(from www.giccsc.com/english/show.aspx?n_id=33 )
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Primary School

The primary section opened a bilingual experimental class and an international course with the implementation of small class teaching, a meticulous management mode that allows each student to receive more attention and assistance. In addition to the opening of the school in, plus two bilingual, special elective courses were also opened, including piano, calligraphy, drawing and other areas of interest in order to fully develop the qualities and capabilities of the students. At the same time, the school also takes advantage of the summer to organize international summer camp activities, to broaden and develop students　 international perspectives.

( from www.giccsc.com/english/show.aspx?n_id=27)
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Senior High School

The aim of our high school is to implement dual enrollment, a dual school system, small classes, meticulous management, synchronization creation of bilingual experimental classes and AP courses classes. The students have the same high school enrollment as Canadian high school students. The three-year senior academic structure, credit system, and curriculum execution syllabus is compatible with Canadian high school credit courses. The students’ high school credit course scores qualifies them to obtain a high school diploma and a high school diploma (equivalent to that of Canadian high school graduates) issued by the Ministry of Education of the provincial government of New Brunswick, Canada. Dual degree certificate students in China can apply for university, along with the exemption, free matriculation admission to Canada, the United States and other English-speaking countries. Students who earn good grades can qualify to apply for college scholarships.
Multi-directional and multi-graduation exports is one of the added features of the school. The successful middle school graduates for years have maintained a 100% university admission acceptance rate at home and abroad. Graduates were admitted, up to 85 percent of the students 2-8 university admission, universities, scholarships rate of 83%, which the highest individual scholarships of up to $ 100,000. Graduates have been accepted to more than 100 universities throughout Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. A grand graduation ceremony will be held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.. The school has trained a multi-session high school and nearly 10,000 outstanding graduates in famous universities continue their studies or work, and contribute to important positions.

(from www.giccsc.com/english/show.aspx?n_id=36 )
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Witness the New World School of Guiyang Canada was born

Guizhou Metropolis Daily digital newspaper, July 19, 2012

⊙The reporter Lu Yilin
July 12, in the New World International School.

Guiyang officially opened in Jinyang New District. It is reported that the school is Canada the RBC International Education Group run is Canada international education brand in China in 15 years, run by seven international school. Is the province　s first real full-time international schools, 12 years on the significance of the consistent system to fill the province blank school directly participate in the international college entrance. School official handover of the day, Canada New Brunswick Education Minister Jody Carr, of Canada RBC International Education Group Chairman Dr. Peng Jianhua, Municipal Committee of Guiyang Jinyang New District Party committee secretary Ding Xudong, Guiyang City Vice Mayor Mao Bi Jinyang New District Administrative Committee Director Zhang Haibo leaders and guests, educators, many students and parents about more than 500 people witnessed the campus handover ceremony, everyone up in Guizhou Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada Send expectations. Reputation cooperative education school for 15 years, fully affirmed the achievements, the education sector of Guizhou and Guizhou child brought for the school to give education a new philosophy, a new model, as well as the school for 15 years 100% college acceptance rate to Guizhou, hold to the ardent hope that the development of the school, have also sent sincere blessing. Campus handover ceremony site, the Municipal Committee of Guiyang Jinyang New District Party committee secretary Ding Xudong, Guiyang City Vice Mayor Mao Pitt personally schools awarding thus Guiyang Canada New World International School was officially inaugurated in Jinyang New District, at the same time for the province to recruit students.

Education in Canada to open a new door for students

Canada, New Brunswick Minister of Education, Mr. JodyCarr:
The ceremony marked the Canadian Huang International Education Group 7 plus the establishment of the school in the 15 years of partnership with Niubin Province. Canadian school also runs through the north and south China things to form a solid network of schools and teaching network.
Able to provide students with the opportunity to learn in a multicultural environment is a very useful thing. The students will be graduating from high school in Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada and obtained a high school diploma in China and Canada. Students can choose to pursue advanced studies at the University of China or Canada continues. In the same time, the school will run the first grade to ninth grade, mainly to China　s basic education curriculum, the fusion part of the Canadian province of New Brunswick advantage English courses and elective courses.
Advantage curricular integration of China and Canada will be available to students a unique education, this education will be passed to the students of different cultural, expand your thinking, to open a new door for their future.

Guiyang children achieve the dream of studying abroad

Canada RBC International Education Group Chairman Dr. Peng Jianhua:
Schools in Canada Canada the RBC International Education Group　s cooperation by the Chinese Government and the Government of Canada established Sino-foreign cooperative educational institutions, and over the years has been the strong support of the Chinese government at all levels. Since its inception in 1997, has been founded in China over the six schools, has been the recognition of local governments, education departments, and praise and recognition by local parents.
With the “mother tongue” and “multi-cultural” school characteristics and advantages, there are more than a dozen sessions nearly 10,000 graduates in the domestic and foreign college or work, and to contribute to important positions in many industries. The RBC After many in-depth study, considered necessary for the introduction of the new school education school system Guiyang.
Allow children to accept the influence of Western culture has a rich cultural heritage of the city to live in this, the double mother tongue the dual education teaching mode to achieve the comprehensive development of the domestic quality of education as well as the dream of studying abroad in the future. The RBC Group will work and Jinyang New District Education Bureau efforts to Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canadaaccomplishing the first-class quality international schools in Guiyang.
The Jinyang education important milestone of the development
Jinyang New District Party Working Committee, the CMC director Zhang Haibo：
Since 2008, the Jinyang New District financial education career accumulated investment funds of nearly 500 million yuan, the cause of education has made considerable progress. Today, we ushered in the official opening of the New World International School, Guiyang, not only to fill the province there is no the school directly participate in the International College Entrance Examination blank, also laid a good start for the province　s college entrance examination with international standards, not only to help promote international exchange, optimize its structure to meet the educational needs of different groups of people, and also help to improve the investment environment and the urban image of the new district. Important milestone for the history of the development of education in the Jinyang New District, Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada run will be to play an extremely important role to build a modern city benchmark for Jinyang.
“Dual enrollment” mode to meet different people educational needs
Jinyang New District Secretary for Education Hao Tempo:
Canada school　s annual enrollment in Guizhou Province, many parents have also attracted the children sent to Beijing, Canada School of Shenzhen, province candidates obtained excellent HKALE Canada Group established a good Guizhou students　 quality The impression also make our mutual confidence in cooperation. After a comprehensive study and careful consideration and screening, Jinyang New District workers, management committee, following the successful introduction last year, Beijing Normal University, cooperative education, and innovative introduction of the Canadian of Huang International Education Group opened of Guiyang in plus New World in the New World International Garden International School and signing ceremony held last month on the 20th. Far less than one month　s time, has been all over the province including the neighboring provinces of registration for the more than 200 students enrolled.
Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada is a twelve years consistent system of international schools, students have “dual enrollment” can directly participate in the international college entrance applications including Ivy League institutions, including many European and American countries, colleges and universities. Fill the province blank no school can participate in the international college entrance directly help to promote the diversification of Jinyang New District, education, international development, to meet the educational needs of different groups of people. Cooperation principles for cooperative education, self-management “. New District Education Bureau to provide school places and facilities, to ensure good conditions for running. RBC International Education Group provides educational philosophy, curriculum, teaching methods, teaching methods, experiment and practice, foreign exchange and other international teaching business management resources, and is responsible for providing funds for the school, selected well-known principals, hiring Chinese and foreign outstanding teachers, and schools all teaching and administrative operations.
For students facing the world in advance accelerated
Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canada principals have completed heroic:
The key to the development of a school teacher, Royal International Education Group in this regard we do fully prepared, excellent the Canadian Principal and instructors selected by the Ministry of Education of Canada, New Brunswick, with a wealth of experience in education Beijing Canada, Shenzhen plus vivid send a portion of the outstanding teachers of bilingual teaching experience, Guiyang plus also spared no expense to the nation to recruit a number of disciplines backbone teachers.
It should also let everyone know that the school　s international education, and not just the environment internationalization, the internationalization of the curriculum to increase the number of foreign teachers. It is trying to the full range of culture through such a school education the international literacy of teachers and students, more students, more intuitive understanding of Western culture, knowledge transmission process, the establishment of an international life atmosphere more open mentality more sun, more open-minded, more active thinking, operating practice more opportunities to participate in the stronger sense, more willing to think and express performance, so that our students　 horizons, potentially improve the overall quality of the individual, the formation of good behavior and basic etiquette of behavior for students for the world ahead of acceleration.
Special Note: the “Guiyang plus New World International School Admissions Seminar held in the Jinyang Shijijinyuan Hotel Beijing Room on the second floor of Guiyang Concord College of Sino-Canadaon July 22, 2012 15:00 pm.

private English schols in Guiyang – Aston English 阿斯顿英语贵阳 & English First 英孚贵阳

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Ray

private English schols in Guiyang – Aston English 阿斯顿英语贵阳 & English First 英孚贵阳 ,

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Aston English – Guiyang: guiyang.astonschool.com ,

See video with scenes of Guiyang and Aston’s school 阿斯顿英语 Aston English 外教在中国——贵阳, :v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg3OTkxODAw.html
贵阳阿斯顿英语学校
一部：贵州省贵阳市中山东路42号小十字银座商务大厦13层
电话：0851-5832425 / 5832476
二部：贵州省贵阳市飞山街105号祥源大厦D栋2—4层
电话：0851-5258802 / 5258804

贵阳阿斯顿英语学校是美国阿斯顿国际教育集团在贵州省的唯一一所品牌英语培训学校，学校在贵阳有2个分部，分别座落于繁华、交通便利的小十字和飞山街。学校拥有全空调的现代化教学环境，先进的多媒体互动软、硬件环境，宽敞舒适的家长休息大厅。在这里，您将感受到纯正地道的英语学习环境，领先地位的阿斯顿教学理论与教材，热情专业的外籍教师团队。
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Aston English operates more than 100 English schools in China. In 1996 Aston opened its first English language school in Dalian and is now operating in 22 provinces in more than 88 cities nationwide. Aston’s customized curriculum for the Chinese market ensures students achieve good English communication skills that will serve them well in the future.

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(from astonrecruiting.com/about.html )
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English First – Guiyang
www.ef.com.cn/englishfirst/schools/guiyang/intro.aspx
中华中路1号鸿祥大厦6楼
电话：0851-5213328,0851-5213398

学英语，到EF英孚贵阳学校

贵阳英语培训中心
贵阳EF英语培训学校于2004年2月落户贵阳，坐落于贵阳市最为繁华的喷水池虹祥大厦，校舍面积800多平方米，是贵阳最大的英语培训学校。现有来自英国、美国、爱尔兰、加拿大、新加坡等英语国家的专职英语教师8名。作为专业的语言教育机构，贵阳EF现已成为贵阳英语爱好者心中的第一品牌。在提供个人英语课程的同时，我们还为企业客户提供度身定做的商务英语课程。
工作时间：
星期一 – 星期五 10:00-21:00
星期六 10:00-21:00
星期天： 10:00-21:00
欢迎您来贵阳EF英孚英语培训学校参观、咨询！

Study English at EF English First Guiyang

GuiyangEnglish training center
EF English First Guiyang was set up on February of 2004. It is located in the Hongxiang Building which is the landmark of the commercial center of Guiyang. The school is around 800 square meters and the biggest English language training school in Guiyang. At present there are 8 foreign teachers who come from different countries around the world, such as, England, America, Australia, South Africa. As a professional language training center, EF English First Guiyang has risen to the top of the English training market in Guiyang. EF English First Guiyang offers not only the personal courses, also special Corporate Language Training and Business English Training.
(from www.ef.com.cn/englishfirst/schools/guiyang/intro.aspx )
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two months in China
Well I read many of these entries before I left and I don’t think anything could have prepared me for the experience (except of course background knowledge of chinas history). The things I expected to be a problem – weren’t (water, housing, bad school)and the things I didn’t expect – were (staring. Spitting, lack of imagination etc). I taught at EF Guiyang, the school was new, the staff were great, my boss couldn’t have been more supportive. We had some minor difficulties with the Chinese staff, who were still adapting to our western way (it was quite impossible to imagine us adapting to their way of doing things, I’m sorry!). I recommend anyone with an open mind and a desire to learn patience and tolerance to teach in China, BUT I must say I admire those in for the long haul because I wouldn’t have wanted to stay longer than the two months I spent there (summer school)it was perfect for a taste! I did feel like I was going a bit mad at times. I have only been back a week and im still getting my head around things but it is an experience I will never forget, I have learn so much. I could write and write and write but I will keep it brief.
If anyone wishes to contact me with any questions….
Jenza65@hotmail.com
(from www.abroadchina.org/html/cache=article265.htm )

Key companies in Guiyang

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Ray

Key companies in Guiyang

chinadaily.com.cn, 2013-07-09

Guizhou Tyre Co 贵州轮胎
CHINALCO Guizhou Branch 中铝贵州分公司
Guilin Kailin (Group) Co 贵州开磷
Guizhou Yibai Pharmaceutical Co 贵州益佰制药股份有限公司
Shougang Guiyang Special Steel Co首钢贵阳特殊钢有限责任公司
AVIC Guizhou Guihang Automotive Components Co贵州贵航汽车零部件股份有限公司
Guizhou Tongjitang Pharmaceutical Co 贵州同济堂制药有限公司
Xinyang Fertilizer Industry Co贵州西洋肥业有限公司

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Guizhou Tyre Co

The Guizhou Tyre Co was founded in 1958 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, in 1996. It is one of the top 10 tire corporations in China and an export base for OTR tires. It is China’s most comprehensive tie producer with a portfolio that includes more than 2,000 types, such as bias tires for such automobiles as Qianjin and Dalishi, all-steel radials, solid tires, and those for agricultural, forestry, industrial, and mining vehicles or machinery. The company ranked 28th, out of the 75 top tire manufactures in the world, in 2010, and 9th in China.

Guizhou Tyre has a national enterprise technology center and post-doctorate work area and gets assistance from senior technicians from the United States, Japan and Australia in product development. Its products have ISO9001 Quality System, ISO/TS16949 Quality System, 3C, and DOT Safety certification, as well as E-mark certification and the military’s Quality System certification, and it exports its products to the US, UK, Italy, South Africa, and more than 69 other countries, with exports accounting for more than 25 percent of total annual sales.

CHINALCO Guizhou Branch

The Aluminum Corp of China (CHINALCO) Guizhou branch, is a large enterprise, founded in February 2002, in accordance with CHINALCO restructuring and reform plans. CHINALCO has been listed on the New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges.

CHINALCO Guizhou branch is located in the Baiyun district of Guiyang, Guizhou province and has more than 14,000 employees and total assets of 10.7 billion yuan. It has an annual capacity of 400,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum, 1.2 million tons of alumina, 270,000 tons of carbon products, and other high added-value products as well. Its pioneering use of sandy alumina and high purity aluminum are Guizhou Branch trademarks, and the “Jieyun” and “Huaguang” brands are famous in Guizhou. It has also been recognized as a country-levelcorporation and a test center for aluminum electrolysis and carbon cathode electric products. It underwent reforms and restructuring, in 2002, and its output has improved annually since then, along with its operating performance. The Guizhou branch was also one of the first water-saving enterprises to reach its wastewater zero discharge goal, and it is devoted to resource-saving and environmentally friendly production. It is also one of China’s Top 500 Manufacturers and has earned the “Excellence Award” for its outstanding company culture and is a “National Customer Satisfying Enterprise”.

Guilin Kailin (Group) Co

The Guizhou Kailin (Group) Co, established in 1958 as the Guizhou Kaiyang Phosphorous Mine Bureau, is now, after more than five decades of development, China’s largest phosphorus ore mining and pentaerythritol producing company, with high-concentration, compound-phosphate fertilizer production capacity that ranks second in the industry.

The company specializes in mining, phosphate, coal, chlor-alkali, fluorine, and silicon chemicals, and is involved in trade, logistics, building materials, and property services. It can produce 6.5 million tons of phosphorus ore annually, 3.5 million tons of high-concentrate phosphate fertilizers, 600,000 tons of synthetic ammonia, 300,000 tons of methanol, and 150,000 tons of ammonium nitrate. Its sales amounted to 20 billion yuan ($3.3 billion), in 2012, increasing total assets to nearly 30.4 billion yuan. Its yearly growth target has been 33 percent, since 2000, with the idea of making 50 billion yuan in revenues by the end of the 12th Five-year Plan (2011-15), and 100 billion yuan, by 2020. The State and the Guizhou government included the company in the second group of national circular-economy pilots and designated it a 10-billion-yuan pilot construction unit.

Guizhou Yibai Pharmaceutical Co

Guizhou Yibai Pharmaceuticals, which deals in R&D and sales of new drugs, was established on June 12, 1995, restructured as a joint-stock company, in November 2000, and went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHA: 600594), in March 2004, the first in Guizhou province. It has world-class facilities and nine injection production lines and 49 types of drugs for small-volume injections, lyophilized powder injections, and infusions. Its major products include the Keke series and Aidi injections. It covers a 134,398-square-meter space, with 43,200 sq m of it under national good manufacturing standards, and seven production bases, four of them outside Guizhou province. It had an output worth around 3 billion yuan ($489 million) and sales of about 2.8 billion yuan, by the end of 2012, and paid 386 million yuan in provincial taxes, and a total of 2.3 billion in State taxes since its founding.

In the first four month of 2013, Yibai has had 760 million yuan in production value and paid 135 million yuan in taxes, while sales increased 18 percent over the same last year period. Yibai has been on the Top 100 China Pharmaceutical Enterprise list for seven years in a row and was one of China’s Top 20 Most Competitive Listed Pharmaceutical Companies, in 2012.

Shougang Guiyang Special Steel Co

The Shougang Guiyang Special Steel Co, founded in 1958, is a major special steel enterprise and a research and production base for drilling tools in West China. The company has world-class production lines for environmentally friendly electric-arc furnaces, hollow steel, and forged and rolled products. It can produce 500,000 tons of special steel and 460,000 tons of steel products annually, mainly for the engineering, machinery, and defense industries, and exports to the US, Japan, Taiwan, and other countries and regioins. It contains 19 sections, including a technology center, and seven steelmaking and steel-rolling factories, and 14 subsidiaries, with a total of 5,521 employees. In 2011, the company sold 68,595 tons of free-cutting steel, for 29.4 percent year-on-year growth and a third of total sales, and sales of 22,081 heavy drill rods, up 92.86 percent from the previous year, and 74,242 button bits, a year-on-year increase of 22.33 percent.

AVIC Guizhou Guihang Automotive Components Co

AVIC Guizhou Guihang Automotive Components Co is a listed company controlled by the Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) Guizhou Guigang Group and isunder China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co management. It is a large manufacturer with 7,000 employees, and 19 subsidiaries in the cities of Guiyang, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Haikou. The company uses high-precision technology, a quality assurance system, and many talented, professional personnel. Its 40 years of R&D and production of aviation components and 20 years in automotive parts have made the company a famous manufacturer and winner of the Top 100 Automotive Parts Enterprise award. It produces and sales automotive and motorcycle parts, rubber and plastic products, and general and special equipment and has export businesses for its products and technology, and import businesses for raw and auxiliary materials, instruments, meters, devices, equipment, components, and production and scientific research technology. Its foreign trade businesses cover the processing of imported materials and a “three-plus-one” trade-mix (custom manufacturing using supplied materials, designs, or samples and compensatory trade). It covers a more-than 600,000-square-meter space with a building area of more than 300,000 sq m and has assets of nearly 2.9 billion yuan ($ 473 million). Its annual sales grew from 1billion yuan, in 2007, to 2.3 billion, in 2010.

Guizhou Tongjitang Pharmaceutical Co

Guizhou Tongjitang is a high-tech enterprise with total assets of one billion yuan ($163 million) that focuses on scientific research, production, and sales of medicines and herbs. It has two production plants, in Xiuwen county and the Xiaohe district of Guiyang city, with more than 2,000 workers. It also has the Guizhou Tongjitang Medicine Distribution Co, the Guizhou Tongjitang Traditional Chinese Medicine Decoction Pieces Co, Guizhou Tongjitang Culture Communication Co, Guizhou Tongjitang Pharmacy Chain Co, Anhui Jingfang Pharmaceutical Co, and Qinghai Plateau Pharmaceutical Co. It produces more than 140 kinds of Chinese and Western medicines that have a good reputation for their curative effects and, with its increasing market share, has had sales, profits and taxes growing at more than 30 percent a year. The company has won the “Advanced Tax Unit” of Guizhou province award, “Advanced Enterprise” of Guizhou province award, “AAA Special Credit Enterprise” from the Agricultural Bank of China Guizhou, “Contract and Trustworthy Enterprise” of Guizhou province, and the “Competitive Private Enterprise” of Guizhou province award, in the years since 1998. The Xianlinggubao Capsule, its leading product, is the sole Chinese patented medicine for osteoporosis, honored and a “First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress” award winner, from the World Federation of Traditional Chinese Orthopedics. It also got the “Special Contribution Award” from the China Federation of Traditional Chinese Orthopedics and the “Outstanding Products” award from Guizhou province.

Xinyang Fertilizer Industry Co

Xinyang Fertilizer, a subsidiary of the Xiyang Group, was established in March 2000, with registered capital of 300 million yuan ($49 million) and is a large enterprise involved in compound fertilizers, mixed and compound fertilizers, monoammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, sulphuric acid, and mining. It has 14 departments and seven plants for compound fertilizer, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, synthetic ammonia, sulphuric acid, super phosphate, hydraulic power, and machinery. It can produce 1.4 million tons of various fertilizers annually and has two cogeneration units that can produce 90 million yuan in benefits annually by saving 250,000 tons of coal. It has 2,082 regular staff members and 258 temporary workers, with 521 managers, technicians and sales personnel. The company has four production lines for compound fertilizers, with an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons; two for sulphuric acid, with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons and 400,000 tons; two lines for phosphoric acid, with annual production capacity of 600,000 tons and 400,000 tons; one for synthetic ammonia, with annual production capacity of 120,000 tons; one for powdered monoammonium phosphate, with an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons; two for mixed and compound fertilizers, with an annual production capacity of 20,000 tons; two for diammonium phosphate, with an annual production capacity of 20,000 tons; and one for calcium superphosphate, with an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons. It also has a 7.8-kilometer special railway line to connect with the Kaiyang line of the Chuanqian (Chengdu – Guiyang) Railway.

The company has become the largest fertilizer producer with the lowest costs, greatest efficiency, best economic benefits, highest awareness, and best reputation and influence in China.

(from http://guizhou.chinadaily.com.cn/guiyang/2013-07/09/content_16753096.htm )

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Why Guiyang
( chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2013-07-09
Why Guiyang
Location Advantages

The city of Guiyang, in Guizuou province, is in the interior of southwestern China and has been an important junction throughout history, linking the Northwest and Southwest with the Pearl River Delta, of Guangdong province, Hong Kong, and Macao to the east. The city has put cost of more than 33 billion yuan ($5.36 billion) into work on its main roads – for example, Ring Expressway, 2nd Ring，Airport Rd, Jiaxiu South, Beijing West, Shuidong, and Qianlingshan. It also has plans to develop its urban rapid rail network, at a cost of 33.6 billion yuan, and urban light rail Lines 1 and 2, at 38.6 billion yuan, to turn itself into the largest rail logistics distribution center for the Southwest. In addition, it is working on a new Guiyang North Railway Station and an express rail line to the cities of Chongqing, Chengdu, Changsha, Kunming, and Guangzhou, and is doing its best in the reconstruction and extension work on its Longdongbao International Airport. Over the next three to five years, it wants to improve transportation to make itself a bridge to major cities in the province and provide one- hour service to Chengdu, Chongqing, and Kunming, and three-hour service to Changsha, in Hunan province, six-hour to Shanghai, and seven-hour to Beijing. By then, its traffic will show great improvements and it will be practically used as a hub for the Southwest. It expects to be on the nation’s advanced city list and be considerably more modernized.

Talented people

Guiyang has worked hard to improve its talent policy and make optimal use of its environment, since 2012 by relying on its mid-to-long term talented personnel development plan and building a special talent zone in the Guiyang High-tech Park. The city has seen some progress in getting badly needed talent for economic and social development, especially high-level personnel. It has held special job fairs at the better universities and has taken part in related seminars and attracted 476 high-level people with backgrounds from January to October 2012, with 88 PhD holders, 336 with masters, and 52 with at the advanced professional level. After the city began work on the special talent zone, in the high-tech zone, it has applied special talented people policies and provided quality services for talented people and start-up businesses. In 2012, it brought in 110 high-level people to the high-tech zone for start-up and other businesses.

Resource advantages

Aluminum

Guizhou province has about 424 million tons of proven bauxite resources, or 16.94 percent of China’s total, putting it third nationwide, and Guiyang has 365 million tons of bauxite resources, or 82 percent of province’s total.

Its resource advantages and more than 50 years of experience have given the city a complete aluminum industrial system. There is the Baiyun Aluminum and Aluminum Manufacturing and Production Base with the Aluminum Corporation of China (CHINALCO) Guizhou branch as its main part, and the Qingzhen Aluminum and Aluminum Manufacturing Base. The system includes a professional design and product R&D, with the Guiyang Aluminum and Magnesium Design and Research Institute and CHINALCO’s Guizhou branch, and a rapidly developing production system for high purity aluminum and refined aluminum, with alumina and electrolytic aluminum as the main products. The main products and annual output are as follows: monohydrallite, 3 million tons/yr; alumina, 1.2 million tons/yr; electrolytic aluminum, 450,000 tons/yr; aluminum with carbon, 300,000 tons/yr; refined aluminum, 5,000 ton/year, and high purity aluminum, 20 tons/yr. In 2011, the city’s total output of aluminum and related manufacturing were 8.51 billion yuan, for a year-on-year increase, of 7.58 percent.

Phosphorus

Guiyang has 428 million tons of phosphorus reserve, making it one of three phosphorus bases in the country, with 70 percent of China’s high-quality phosphorus. In recent years, it has used its abundant phosphorus and coal advantages, as well as location, heavy industrial bases, and technology, to establish a nitrogen and phosphate compound fertilizer production system and phosphorus chemical product processing system, and has developed an industrial cluster for the common development of large corporate groups and private phosphorus and coal chemical enterprises. Many industrial bases have settled there, such as the Kaiyang phosphorus and coal chemical and ecological industry demonstration base, Xifeng phosphorus and coal chemical and ecological industry demonstration base, and Qingzhen coal chemical industrial base. In 2011, the city had an output value of 26.3 billion yuan in phosphorus and coal chemicals, for a year-on-year increase of 35.22 percent.

Traditional Chinese medicines

Guizhou province has one of China’s four Chinese herbal medicine bases and an old saying that goes, “All grasses are herbs in Guizhou”, thanks to its more than 4,290 types of herbs — 65 million tons in all — such as Gastrodia elata, Eucommia ulmoides, Guizhou Codonopsis pilosula, and Poligonum multiflorum. And Guiyang has more than 1,250 types of herbal medicine resources, 1,140 of them plants, 80 of them from animals and 30 of them minerals. The city’s Chinese medicinal reserves amount to 963,000 tons, 52,000 of that plants, 910,000 of it minerals and 2 tons, animal materials.

Biological Resources

Guiyang has a good environment and moderate climate, with abundant rainfall and little pollution, giving it many biological resources. The province, which is about 1,110 meters above sea level on average, has various topographical features, with mountains accounting for 75 percent of the total, hills, 23 percent, and the plain only 1.3 percent. The special location, terrain, and landforms provide a diverse climate and advantages for the production of agricultural products. Guiyang itself has plenty of raw-food materials, including chilies, which contain a lot of vitamin C and capsaicine. It also produces a large amount of potatoes, tea, millet, and raw milk that support the food industry.

Tourism

Guiyang’s climate, beautiful mountains and waters, oxygen, and mild weather provide a good foundation for tourism development, with the especially pleasant and agreeable in summer, and the winters not cold or severe. Karst formations account for 85 percent of Guiyag’s total area and– provide a needle karst, peak cluster, gorges, caves, and waterfalls, and warm, moist weather. It has scenic spots such as the Wujiang River Valley, Nanjiang Canyon, and lakes such as Hongfeng, Baihua, and Dongfeng, while its Huaxi Wetland Park is on the national register. Guiyang also has many hot springs widely spread out, as well as historical, ethnic group and cultural resources, giving it a unique, distinct character all its own.

(from http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/guizhou/guiyang/2013-07/09/content_16768530.htm )

Guizhou Forerunner College (in Huishui, Guizhou) 贵州盛华职业学院

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Ray

Guizhou Forerunner College 贵州盛华职业学院

As the first non-profit funded college in China, Guizhou Forerunner College aims to support the underserved low income, blind, and minority communities in the Guizhou Province of China by providing a world class education through innovative teaching.

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Chinese website: http://www.forerunnercollege.com/menus.aspx?id=34

Guizhou Forerunner College, Huishui, Guizhou, China
TEL：0854—6230002（FAX）

FAQ
Q: When was the School Founded?
A: The school was officially opened on September 15, 2011 and admitted its first class of 200 students from various counties in Guizhou Province to its School of Hotel Management, School of Computer Appplication, Duocai Guizhou School of Tea, and the Bright Angel College for the blind.

Q: Who founded the school?
A: Ms. Cher Wang, co-founder and Chairman of leading smartphone developer, HTC Corp., and Mr. WenChi Chen, President and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc., a complete platform provider, established VIA Faith-Hope-Love Public Welfare Foundation in 2008 to improve the conditions of the disadvantaged, especially in rural areas, through education, medical care, and science and technology.

Q: What is the motto of the college?
A: Integrity, Love and Nobility.

Q: What are the discplines offered by the college?
A: GFC School of Computer Application, GFC School of Hotel Management, Duocai Guizhou School of Tea, Bright Angel College for the blind, GFC Minority Culture and Heritage Center and GFC School of Education.

Q: Who are the target student groups of GFC?
A: The college aims to admit those students who excel in their field of studies but has financial difficulties in Guizhou province. At least 1/3 of the students will receive financial aid for full tuition; another 1/3 will receive financial aid to cover half of the tuition while those students with extreme difficulties will also receive living allowances.

Q: How long do the students study at the College?
A: The College offer a 3-year program and degrees to the students in various disciplines.

Q: What kind of degrees do they get when they graduate from this college?
A: Only GFC Minority Culture and Heritage Center offers both a 3-year Technical Secondary School Education degree and a 3-year Vocational (College) School degree. All the other disciplines only offer 3-year Vocational (College) degrees.

Q: What happens after the students graduate?
A: The College will attempt to place all the graduates in internship or full time positions in its many business partners. For example, the students of Hotel Management will be referred to Marriott International, an American-based worldwide operator and franchisor of a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities.

Q: Are there clubs on Campus?
A: Yes, everyday students have designated club activity schedules as well as extracurricular clubs outside school hours.

Q: Who are the staff?
A: The school staff includes local teaching and administrative staff, various representatives from business partners, many volunteers from the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other parts of China.

Q: What are the sports facilities on campus?
A: The school has a standard soccer field, indoor basketball courts, tennis courts, table tennis tables, and badminton courts.

Peace Corps 和平队 & VSO in Guizhou

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Ray

Peace Corps Volunteers in China – Stories

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Address:
Peace Corps China
C/O Sichuan Unversity
Mailbox 278
No. 29 Wangjiang Road
Chengdu, Sichuan 610064 PRC.
Email: PcInfoChina@cn.peacecorps.gov ; Phone: Tel:86-28-8608-1871 ; Fax:86-28-8541-7152

The longer I am in China the more I realize I am not some “other” person, now a PCV in China, but very much myself. At home my family is the most important thing to me and in China my greatest challenge is to be away from them. I am lucky, however, that I have been accepted into a wonderful family that I now consider to be very much my own.

My host family and I have dinner together almost twice a week, every week. I have a Didi (little brother) and a Meimei (little sister), two relationships I never had in the U.S. as the baby of my family. When I first arrived I could see they were interested in getting to know me, but were very quiet and reluctant to talk with me. They were both also incredibly insecure. The more I got to know them, however, the more I saw how excellent their English was (or could be) and how wonderful they were at so many things. When I arrived my Meimei was preparing to enter her freshman year of college and my Didi, his last year of middle school. Though they both have families that love them deeply, they were living unhealthy lifestyles that left them constantly exhausted, and were so focused on school that they didn’t have time to enjoy it. My Didi felt the growing pressure of studying for the Zhong Kao (the high school entrance exam) and my Meimei was extraordinarily stressed about her physical image before entering her first year of college.

Before our classes began we climbed the mountain in town several times and practiced our English almost nightly. After Meimei went to school and we lacked her translation abilities my Didi and I grew close while attempting to converse in broken English and Chinese. I helped him with his English homework, talked to him about American culture as we watched American movies, and taught him ‘cool’ English songs to sing at KTV (karaoke). Over the winter months my Meimei returned from school and I could see she was exhausted and not giving her body the nutrients it needed. I encouraged our Mama to teach us how to cook more vegetable dishes so that we could reduce some of the fatty meats and excessive oil. We played badminton and ping pong together and talked about being healthy at school and how much happier we were when we were active. Every night we would have time that was “only English” (per their request) and “only Chinese” to improve both of our language abilities. Every night we also made time for my Meimei and I to study the erhu (Chinese two-stringed fiddle).

Since our time together I know that my Chinese has improved (as well as my erhu) and am sure their English has as well. My Didi is now at an excellent high school in another province, I hope still practicing his oral English, and my Meimei is following me in my English classes as a semester internship from school. They are the closest relationships I have made in China and as we learn from one another I feel very much a part of their family, both adored and loved.

Natalie Thomure, Guizhou, 2011-2013
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My students, colleagues, and host family have all been so kind and welcoming to me. Additionally, through the community-based English-Corner, my site-mate and I have made other friends in the community. One of my closest friends now is my friend Leo, who invited me to join he and his friends on a 5 day camping trip over the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Holiday. These gentlemen, though they hardly knew me, welcomed me to join their epic journey. On it, I was able to experience the warmth of the Chinese countryside.

Everywhere we went, there were people who were eager to help us, simply out of the kindness of their hearts. I was deeply affected by this unassuming generosity, and moved by the journey I was able to experience with the help of my new friends. On the last leg of the trip, we planned to camp at the bottom of a pit in a small village. The route down was steep, and the rainfall was persistent. Our guide informed us that it would not cease, so we turned back. His family was very poor. We gave them all of our food, so they cooked a meal that we shared together. That night, the family put us up in their home and kept us warm in the cool autumn evening. The following day, they slaughtered an old hen and made us a delicious soup from their farm and their livestock. They accepted nothing but our words to express our gratitude, and let us depart with a promise that we would return. I was changed by this experience, as the kindness I experienced my whole life paled in comparison to the way this family treated us.

Amanda LeClere, Guizhou, 2012-present

(both from china.drupalgardens.com/content/pcvs-stories# )
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Background

From its inception in 1993, Peace Corps China, known as the US-China Friendship Volunteers, has concentrated on teaching English. China has set as a major goal, nine years of free primary and middle school education for children in rural areas by 2010, and in the entire country by 2015. To meet economic development goals, China requires primary and middle school students to study English beginning in fourth grade in urban areas, and seventh grade in rural areas. Currently, there is a country-wide shortage of over 500,000 English teachers.

The major challenges that China faces are associated with a large population: education, housing, and medical care. In the field of education, China set goals in the Chinese Education Development and Reform Program. The success of education in China rests on the success in the rural areas where the majority of the population resides. This part of China has made a great deal of progress in institutionalizing 6-year compulsory elementary education. However, it has a long way to go in institutionalizing 9-year compulsory education. This task is chiefly the responsibility of the teachers colleges and universities. According to the China Education Association for International Exchange (Peace Corps’ host agency), these tertiary education programs are seen as efficient in providing the education needed to address the social and economic needs of China. Accordingly, the colleges have been directed to increase their enrollment and improve their programs, with the result that almost every such institution now has, or is building, a new campus to supplement the old one.

With increased school enrollments to meet the nine-year compulsory education goal, comes the problem of shortages of qualified English teachers. In addition, English teachers in rural areas have been very isolated and have had little opportunity to speak English with native speakers. Because they have studied English in school for six years, their reading and translation skills are good, but they may be self-conscious about their speaking skills. Many textbooks are also outdated. While some new texts are being introduced, there is little opportunity for current secondary English teachers in rural schools to be trained in their use. The need for English language listening and speaking skills has only recently been addressed by China.

In response to this need, China asked the Peace Corps to assist in training English teachers and other professionals. Of the approximately 100 to 120 Peace Corps Volunteers, 80% teach conversational English, written English, English literature, and Western Civilization at the Teacher Training College and University level. The remaining 20% teach English in technical schools to help prepare students to work in areas like tourism, medicine, and joint ventures with international companies. Most Volunteers teach 14 to 16 classroom hours per week. As requested by the Chinese government, Peace Corps concentrates its efforts in the provinces that come under the Western China Development Project, which includes Sichuan, Gansu, Guizhou and Chongqing Municipality.

Peace Corps addresses the needs of future and current teachers in rural areas, as well as other professionals by offering them opportunities to improve their oral and written English skills. The Chinese have traditionally followed the grammar-translation approach to English in which students master the grammatical system of the language. Peace Corps Volunteers focus, for the most part, on the communicative skills to help Chinese use English in social, academic, and business settings. Through a summer outreach strategy, this opportunity is extended to middle school teachers in schools where Volunteers are not assigned. With content-based teaching, Peace Corps volunteers have also integrated environmental, HIV/AIDS, gender equality, and diversity awareness, as well as critical thinking and problem solving skills, into their teaching and extra-curricular activities.

NOT ONLY DO I COMMUNICATE WITH FRIENDS IN MANDARIN, BUT I ALSO DEVELOP NEW SKILLS THROUGH UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCES.

Former Volunteer in Gansu, China

(from china.drupalgardens.com/content/background )

VSA (Voluntary Service Overseas, UK) & Peace Corps (US) cooperation with Guizhou University 贵州大学

In 1989, Guizhou Agricultural College, then a separate university, began hosting VSO teachers in the Foreign Language Department. The following year, Guizhou University began hosting foreign teachers from the AISH programme in Australia and visiting teacher programmes in both New Zealand and the University of Alabama. Simultaneously, VSO teachers from both the UK and the Netherlands were recruited to work in other Guiyang institutes of higher education including the school of fashion and the catering college, both experiencing booms concurrent with Guiyang’s emergence from relative obscurity. These teachers taught in both the undergraduate and post-graduate programmes at each institution. In 2005, eight years after GuiNong (Guizhou Agricultural College) was merged with GuiDa (Guizhou University), Guizhou University began hosting United States Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV’s). The PCVs teach at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the School of Foreign Languages.

(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou_University#VSO_and_Peace_Co…

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VSO purpose is to bring people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action, and change lives to make the world a fairer place for all.
VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers living and working as equals alongside local partners. VSO has offices in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Cambodia, Kenya, the Philippines, India and China. VSO was founded in 1958 and since then over 50,000 volunteers have worked in over 140 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Service_Overseas )

VSO website: www.vso.org.uk/about/what-we-do
Email: info@vso.ie

What we do:
Climate change
Education
Participation and governance
Health, HIV and AIDS
Secure livelihoods

VSO’s work revolves around four development areas, linked to the priorities of our partners, international development targets and our areas of expertise. These are health, participation and governance, secure livelihoods and education. We’re committed to gender equality in all our work so that men and women have equal opportunities to realise their potential.

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The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance; helping people outside the United States to understand American culture; and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. The work is generally related to social and economic development. Each program participant, a Peace Corps Volunteer, is an American citizen, typically with a college degree, who works abroad for a period of 24 months after three months of training. Volunteers work with governments, schools, non-profit organizations, non-government organizations, and entrepreneurs in education, hunger, business, information technology, agriculture, and the environment. After 24 months of service, volunteers can request an extension of service.[2]
The program was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). The act declares the program’s purpose as follows:
To promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower.
Between 1961 and 2013, over 210,000 Americans joined the Peace Corps and served in 139 countries.[1]
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps )

More than 830 Peace Corps volunteers have served in China since the program was established in 1993. Currently, 146 volunteers serve in China. Volunteers work in the area of education. Volunteers are trained and work in Mandarin Chinese.
(from www.peacecorps.gov/learn/wherepc/asia/china/ )

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The value of the Peace Corps’ China program

By Peter Hessler
POSTED: 09/17/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT WWW.DENVERPOST.COM/CI_1891223318

Rep. Mike Coffman recently called for the Obama administration to end the Peace Corps program in China, describing it as “an insult to the taxpayers of the United States.”
As a former China volunteer who now lives in Colorado, I have several criticisms of Coffman’s stance. The first is basic: Coffman did not meet with any Peace Corps staff or volunteers during his spring trip to China, despite the fact that he visited Sichuan University, where the program is headquartered. Other American lawmakers have made the effort to learn firsthand about what their constituents do as volunteers. On April 24, no fewer than ten senators, including Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, attended a briefing by Peace Corps staff and volunteers in Chengdu.
Legislators are busy; I appreciate that. But a little time makes a big difference – ask anybody who has spent two years of his or her life teaching in a remote part of China. Like many of the five hundred Americans who have served in Peace Corps China, I arrived in 1996 with no background in Chinese language, history, or culture.
Two years later, I left as a fluent speaker of Mandarin, an achievement that is common in the Peace Corps, where volunteers enjoy remarkably close contact with local communities. Most importantly, I taught English in a college that had no other foreign teachers besides the Peace Corps volunteers. My students came from the countryside, and many were the first members of their families to go beyond middle school. Often their fathers were illiterate; their grandmothers had bound feet. And yet these young people were studying English, part of China’s effort to engage with the outside world after decades of Maoist isolation.
Fifteen years later, I’m still in touch with nearly one hundred former students. Most of them teach English in rural middle schools – teacher-training has always been the main priority of the Peace Corps in China. And one of the primary goals of the Peace Corps worldwide is to promote a better understanding of Americans.
I taught my students about American culture, literature, and politics, and now they pass these lessons on to their own students. They regularly send emails with classroom questions: What’s the Tea Party? How do Americans respond to the economic downturn? How does the electoral college work? (Some questions are easier to answer than others.) And while anti-U.S. propaganda can be a problem in China, I guarantee you that things are different in classrooms that have been touched by the Peace Corps. The Chinese have a deep respect for teachers, and they appreciate what it means for a foreigner to dedicate two years to working far from home.
Another primary goal of the Peace Corps is to help Americans understand the outside world. Since the China program began in 1993, former volunteers have gone on to work for the State Department, and they’ve become foreign service officers in China and other countries.
Many work for American businesses, where their language skills are invaluable in negotiating the Chinese market. Large numbers are teachers who give their American classrooms an unusually accurate picture of China. The impact of the Peace Corps in my field, journalism, has been remarkable.
Former volunteers have become China correspondents for The New York Times, National Public Radio, Newsweek, and the New Yorker. Alumni from the program have already published six books about China, with three more coming soon. (To put this in perspective, during the same period the combined bureaus of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times produced three books.) The last time a Pulitzer Prize was awarded for China coverage, the recipient was Jake Hooker, a former Peace Corps volunteer whose exposé of counterfeit Chinese drugs resulted in significant changes in the pharmaceutical industry – changes that help protect American consumers.
So where’s the insult to the taxpayer? I’d say it comes from a legislator who wants to cut a remarkably successful program without doing even the most basic research into its value.
Peter Hessler was a Peace Corps China volunteer from 1996 to 1998. He lives in Ridgway.

Tongren University: Love Has No Boundaries (about Zimmer Foundation for China, for Tongren, Guizhou), & interview with Sky Lantz-Wagner, Peace Corps teacher, from Tongren University newspaper “T.R.U.E. – Tongren English News, vol 2, (2012), issuu.com/tongrennews/docs/truenews2 uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9509507136/ (Preview)

Peace Corps volunteer Sky Lantz-Wagner, in Tongren, Guizhou province, uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9497071423/in/photostream/ (Preview)

photo and text from Sky Lantz-Wagner’s blog: skylantzwagner.blog.com/

or by email: slantzwagner1@udayton.edu

Peace Corps China

My Life as a Complex Adaptive System

Welcome to Peace Corps China

The journey NEARS ITS END!

At peace

2012 July 4, Posted by sky

I am sitting in the Peace Corps headquarters in Chengdu feeling a little different than I did a day ago. I find myself at a major crossroads looking back at the unforgettable experiences of the past two years and at the same time looking forward to all the exciting and unknown things that lie ahead.

Although my service has finished, I will consider this my last blog post as a Peace Corps volunteer. So many exciting things have happened the past week that it would require hours to get caught up, so I’ll tell the completion of service (COS) story and wrap up with my travel itinerary and then sign off!

I arrived in Chengdu in the evening of July 2nd and went straight to the hotel where I connected with the other volunteers who were COSing yesterday. Between birthday celebrations and farewell dinners and parties, I hadn’t slept much in the previous 3 nights so we chatted for a bit and were in bed my midnight. The next morning we ate breakfast and went to the office to begin the check out process. We had to bring back all of the Peace Corps property from our sites including the water purifies, smoke detector, unused antibiotics, books, etc. We then had to meet with our program manager, the clerk, and the country director. It was a lot of running around and collecting signatures for various forms, but went by quickly and was very exciting.

The interview with the country director was the highlight of the day. It was one-on-one and very casual, but also very thought provoking. She said that everyone is going to want to know about our experiences when we come hone and asked me to think about a 60-second public service announcement for our time in China. I said I would start my PSA with “It was worth it” and then started to summarize some of the insights into Chinese culture that I gained. She encouraged me to think of some more specific stories about students, colleagues, or community members that could represent my service. It was good advice and I plan to spend lots of my travel time reflecting. The goal will be a unique story for every person who asks 🙂

When all the Peace Corps work was finished I felt elated, not because Peace Corps was heavy, but because I felt satisfied. I hugged everyone I could and made promises to come back to visit when I return to China.

In the evening, the U.S. consulate hosted a 4th of July party that all of the COSing volunteers were invited to. The consulate general made a nice speech and then there was a reception with some of the best food and drinks I remember having in China. I ate asparagus wrapped in bacon, burger sliders, 4 different kinds of salad, lox, roasted potates, and meat pie. Holy lord it was good. With my meal I opted for a nice pinot noir, but after switched to a mild stout beer which went well with the mini pecan and lemon merengue pies which I had for dessert. What a way to spend my last day as a volunteer! We were some of the last few people at the party and met the consulate general and his family. We had a nice chat and strolled, strutted, maybe even floated a little, back to the hotel.

So that’s it. As of midnight last night I am a free man. Tomorrow I leave for Beijing and then Friday I’m off to Prague to start my Eastern European adventure that will include Budapes, Croatia and Slovenia. I’ll finish my vacation in Italy and fly home from Milan around the 25th.

Before leaving I just want to say thank you China. I have learned more about myself and the world than I ever thought I would. I hope that my work here has made a positive impact on you and that you will not forget me. Until we meet again… be at peace.

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KFC

2012 June 17, Posted by sky

Tongren has officially made it. We now have a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food restaurant in our town. It opened about a week and each of the 3 or 4 times I have walked past it, it has been packed. Across the street from said KFC is another of China’s large fast-food chicken chains called Dico’s. Dico’s is not serving many customers these days. If I were them, I would have put together a great marketing campaign to draw crowds away from the new joint. I was thinking 2-for-1 sandwiches, free soft drinks, free ice cream for kids. I mentioned this to a friend of mine as we were walking past both stores. She said that Dico’s and KFC are owned by the same parent corporation in China. Oh.

I was craving a fried snack and so I ventured in to Kentucky. It was clean, cool, new ,and very efficient – all things that Chinese people love. I get the feeling that KFC is going to do well in our town. I doubt I’ll make it back there, but it was worth a quick visit, even though we couldn’t find seats and had to take our food to go.

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Pass the torch

2012 May 25, Posted by sky

It has been quite a while since my last post and I suppose it is because I am suffering from the pre-leaving China blues. I’m trying not to think about all the big transitions ahead and live in the now, but it has been raining constantly for 5 days and I have let the soggy weather affect my mood.

On a more positive note, I wrote a song called Pass the Torch which is about keeping the Peace Corps tradition alive in China. A friend of mine who happens to be from Marietta, Georgia where I grew up helped me arrange the song and backed me up with harmonies and a beat box. We recorded the song a few weeks ago and put it online. Check it out when you have a minute 🙂

Pass the Torch video

I have a couple of other stories to tell and I’ll try to spend a little time getting caught up this weekend.

Hugs

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Tongren orphanage update

2012 April 1, Posted by sky

The highlight of my week continues to be the visits to the orphanage. Over a year and a half has passed since my first visit to the old, drafty, run-down building. A lot has changed since then: a new facility, new faces, and growth spurts. The weather in Tongren has been great the past few days, which means that we study English a little less and play outside a little more when we go to visit the kids. It was while playing outside that I noticed how much the kids have grown since I first met them. It was quite a perspective check for me and made me think about all the growth–physical, mental, and emotional–for the kids and me that has gone on between and during visits to the orphanage. I will miss these kids the most when I leave.

This week, we got into some fun stuff at the orphanage including aquatic animal growth capsules, ocarina on the iPhone, and the play area in the infant ward. See photos below.

In other news, the high stakes test that I have been helping my students prepare for is coming up in 3 weeks! We just took a practice test this week to get the feel for the procedure. I have graded a few of the papers and it seems like my original goal of having 25% of the sophomores pass is a little high. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the test will cover things we have already discussed, making it a little easier, but for now we will just keep working until test time.

That’s all for now. Be back soon with more news 🙂

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T.R.U.E. News vol. 2

2012 February 28, Posted by sky

Hi everyone. The latest edition of Tongren University English News (T.R.U.E. News) is online! Follow the link below to read all the excellent work that my students produced. We will get one more edition published this semester and then hopefully the next volunteers will take over where I left off.

issuu.com/tongrennews/docs/truenews2

Other Peace Corps:

Peace Corps in China: A conversation with Eric Doise & Saara Raappana
Aimee Groom, on 04-November-2011 04:15
travel in China_life in China_china blogs_china travel
Guizhou
Eric and Saara: There’s nothing “mamahuhu” about this pair of Peace Corp workers in Guizhou
Earlier this year, Eric Doise and Saara Raappana embarked on an adventure that would take them deep into the heart of Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces. Just a few months into their two year Peace Corp placement in Anshun and they’re already neck deep in cultural curiosity—and adjusting to becoming cultural curiosities themselves. While they are busy disseminating the English language and sharing some American culture, their blog “Horse Horse Tiger Tiger” shares what China is teaching them, with the folks back home. Here, they let us in on a little of what they’ve seen, heard and learned so far.>>>
ChinaTravel.net: First up, tell us a bit about yourselves and what brought you to China?
Eric & Saara: We came to China through the Peace Corps. Saara earned her MFA in Poetry at the University of Florida and had been a university-level teacher in the United States, as was Eric, who earned his PhD in the English Department at the University of Florida. We like traveling, teaching, and learning from and about other cultures, so the Peace Corps seemed like a perfect fit. While we didn’t pick China—where you serve is ultimately the Peace Corps’ decision, we’re excited to be in such a fast-growing, vibrant country as China.
CT.net: What was the inspiration for creating your blog?
Eric & Saara: One of the goals of the Peace Corps is to inform Americans about the culture, customs and people of the country where you serve, and our blog is just one of the ways that we’ll be able to fulfill that goal. The name came from a Chinese phrase that means “not too good, not too bad”: ma ma hoo hoo (mǎmǎhǔhǔ, 马马虎虎), which translates literally as “horse horse tiger tiger.”
CT.net: What were some of your first impressions on arriving in China? Tell us about your best experience so far.
Eric & Saara: Our first impression of China was how crowded it was, which is probably a fairly typical response. However, soon after our arrival, we moved in with a host family in Chengdu that we lived with for two months, and quickly came to appreciate Chinese hospitality. We also were, and continue to be, amazed at how rare foreigners are in most of China. Coming from America, we take for granted that seeing people of different ethnicities and races is common; but in China (especially in the smaller towns and cities), it’s rare to see a non-Chinese face. Stares from unsuspecting, well-meaning Chinese people have become the norm.
Huangguo shu waterfalls, Guizhou
Huangguoshu Falls, Anshun
CT.net: What was your best experience?
Eric & Saara: Our best experience outside of living with our host family was seeing Huangguoshuo Falls, the country’s largest waterfall. They are actually a series of falls, but due to time constraints, we were only able to see the major one. Once we entered the gate for the falls, we walked through a beautifully landscaped garden populated by stones, worn by the enormous pressure of the falls. The water at the bottom of the falls is a pristine blue. Perhaps our favorite feature of the site is that you can walk behind the fall, providing some amazing sights of the falls and lush surrounding areas
CT.net: You’re currently based in Anshun. Any tips for visitors to the city on what to see, where to go or what to eat?
Eric & Saara: Huangguoshu Falls and the Dragon Palace, which we have yet to visit, are nearby. Dog meat is not uncommon. Most restaurants that serve it have pictures of dogs on their storefront, but it’s probably a good idea to learn the Chinese characters or hànzì ( 汉字) for “dog” (gǒu, 狗) if you’re averse. If you’re looking for a nice meal, the Triumphal Hotel near the Beijing Hua Lian Square (Běijīng Huá Lián Guǎngchǎng, 北京华联广场; also home to some large dinosaur statues) has good food (the 11 and 14 buses go here). If you enjoy eating dumplings (jiǎozi, 饺子), try out Běijīng Jiǎozi Guǎn (北京饺子馆; the 11 also goes here, but I believe the sign is in hanzi only, which will make reading it difficult for most foreigners).
Anshun is also a great jumping off place for many minority towns. The surrounding area has Miao, Buyi, and Gelao minority villages that you can visit. Travel to and from Anshun is convenient as you can catch trains to Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang, and Kunming, among other large cities.
One note on the buses: unless there are police around, you don’t need to actually be at a bus stop to catch a bus. If you see one approaching that you wish to board, simply flag the bus down with your hand, and they will usually stop for you. However, be prepared to get on quickly as they will take off while you’re still boarding if you’re not fast enough. Taxis are also fairly inexpensive; RMB 5 will get you most places in the city, although you should make sure you’re not getting the foreigner price. If the driver uses the meter, you should get a fair price.
CT.net: What is the one thing you wish you’d known about China before arriving?
Eric & Saara: Just how different the various areas of China are from each other. This might seem obvious, but because it is still a developing country, the discrepancies between the major cities and the smaller cities can make it seem like you’re in two different countries. For instance, without a cell phone that makes international phone calls, it is all but impossible for travelers to call other countries from Anshun. In the major cities, however, international phone cards are fairly easy to come by. In other words, prepare to be flexible if you are planning on traveling across the country.
CT.net: What do you miss most from home?
Eric & Saara: Definitely the food. We like Chinese food, but I’m certain we’d pay way too much for pizza, American French fries, a hamburger, pie, etc. if we could locate it right now. Anshun has no Western food.
CT.net: What would you miss most if you were to leave tomorrow?
Eric & Saara: Our colleagues and students have been wonderful hosts, helping us get settled in and showing us around Anshun, and because we still keep in touch with our original host family in Chengdu, we’d certainly miss them. We’ve also enjoyed learning and speaking Mandarin. The Peace Corps provided us with some wonderful teachers during our training, and one of our colleagues has continued to fill that role admirably.
CT.net: What three words sum up your China experience?
Eric & Saara: Unpredictable, enjoyable, loud.
If you’ve enjoyed meeting Eric and Saara then drop by and say hi over at Horse Horse Tiger Tiger and see what’s going down in Anshun.
(from blog.chinatravel.net/living-working-studying-in-china/pea… )

See Horse Horse Tiger Tiger video about learning Chinese (?), and blog: horsehorsetigertiger.net/about/

from Peace Corps’ Flickr site—check for other good photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93681231@N08/favorites/with/5426293828/#photo_5426293828</a>

Guizhou transportation: section of Burma Road: 24-Zig 滇缅公路24拐 in Qinglong 贵州青龙;heroic construction of Guizhou-Guangxi railroad; “Southwestern Silk Road” in Yunnan

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Ray

24-Zig along the Burma Road （滇缅公路24拐）, in Qinglong, southwest Guizhou prov.

“The “24-zig” is in Guizhou Province, it has 24 sharp bends on a high mountain. The Burma Road was largely built by Chinese during World War II to bring supplies to beleagured China, to help Chinese resist the Japanese invasion.
（from www.chinawhisper.com/top-10-most-dangerous-roads-in-china ）
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Historic ’24-zig’ Rediscovered on Stilwell Road

August 15, 2002, China Daily (?)

People can see a famous old photo on websites about World War II: convoys of US GMC military trucks snaking up a steep zigzag road in southwest China’s mountainous region.

It illustrates the crucial lifeline that linked the Chinese battlefield with allied forces 57 years ago. The road, nicknamed “24-zig” because it has 24 sharp bends on a high mountain, was believed to lie on the famous Stilwell Road, also known as the Burma Road.

Along the road, mountains of guns, bullets and food were carried by US trucks to China to fight against the Japanese troops.The “24-zig” was so geologically typical and a symbol of the times that its fame was soon spread worldwide by the international media.

However, after the war ended half a century ago, the precise location of the “24-zig” faded from memory. Many Chinese, Japanese and Westerners tried to pinpoint it along the Stilwell Road and the Burma Road in Yunnan Province, but it seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

Guo Shuya, a Chinese expert in World War II history, has been studying the road for many years. In 2001, he happened to get a piece of information from Japan that the “24-zig” was not on the Stilwell Road as many experts believed, but actually on another road in nearby Guizhou Province.
Guo went to Guizhou and sought help from elderly drivers, and they told him the “24-zig” was in a county named Qinglong, two hundreds miles away from Guiyang, capital of Guizhou.

Guo made his way to Qinglong where he rediscovered the “24-zig”.

“I have solved a riddle that has puzzled people worldwide for half a century, ” he said. “It seems that we still don’t know verymuch about World War II.”

The Stilwell Road was a single road built in 1944 between Indiaand China’s Yunnan Province. However, the international community usually regarded all the traffic networks in southwest China as being part of the famous road, which was named after Joseph Stilwell, commander-in-chief of the China-Burma-India war theater.

“The ’24-zig’ is indeed in Guizhou, and it can be seen as an extension of the Stilwell Road,” said Zhou Mingzhong, an official with the Guizhou Transportation Bureau.

He said that the road was built by US troops and remained undamaged. These days curious drivers usually ride on the historic road for fun.

“Currently, Guizhou is investing heavily in a campaign to buildnew roads. However, we will preserve the “24-zig” according to itsoriginal look,” said Zhou, adding that “it is a relic of World War II, and a symbol of Sino-American friendship”.

Lin Kongxun, 80, a former interpreter with the US 1880 engineerbattalion stationed along the “24-zig”, said that the road was so dangerous many trucks overturned. “Whenever the US drivers got onto the road, they prayed to God,” said Lin, a professor from the Huanan Agriculture University.

But it was the terrible, unforgettable road that guaranteed final victory in the war against the Japanese, he asserted.

Guo’s rediscovery of “24-zig” has amazed the world. Guo and Lin believe that the road will serve as an emotional link between China and the United States in the 21st century.

“I hope people from different countries will return to the road to remember its history, just like the reunion of surviving Chinese and US pilots in Beijing in May this year,” Guo said.

Before the India-Burma-China road was constructed, all strategic materials had to be carried into China by air. A total of 468 US planes crashed when crossing the Himalayas, killing 1,579 pilots.

Lin said a reunion of veterans of the 1880 engineer battalion was held in 1986. “After the gathering, I received a lot of pictures and reports about the Stilwell Road mailed by my American friends,” he said.

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The Burma Road.

for photos see: www.tinyadventurestours.com/Eng/Destinations/BurmaRoad.html

The road was constructed between 1937 and 1938 during the ‘Second Sino-Japanese War’ by combining existing roads and tracks and upgrading them for use by heavy transports and even building completely new roads and bridges. This all through an area in which till then hardly any roads had existed. The purpose of the road was to keep supplies coming in while the eastern sea ports of China were controlled or blocked by Japanese forces.
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The road got closed off by the Japanese occupation of Burma and western Yunnan. Control over the road resulted in critical battles like the battle at the Huitong Bridge and the battle at Songshan Mountain in the Gaoligong mountain range.
During the second world war American engineer regiments constructed a new road from Ledo in India across Burma to connect to the original Burma Road. The combined road got named “Stilwell road” after American General ‘Vinegar Joe’ Stilwell.
Burma road at present. The present day enlarged and improved Burma Road crossing the Gaoligong mountain range near Longling.
At the turn of the century the British had attempted to extend their rail network from Lashio in Burma into Yunnan but had given up because the terrain was one of the hardest in the world with many mountains and big rivers to cross. The only east/west connection was the ‘Southern Silk Road’, a combination of footpaths and horse trails leading to footbridges and ferry crossings.
The Burma Road was constructed by an unskilled local labour force of thousands recruited from the various tribes living along the route. The tools used were local farming tools and complicated constructions were avoided by letting the road hug the higher parts of the mountains and avoiding the valleys with rivers and streams as well as muddy flat lands as much as possible.

Nowadays.

Over the years the road got widened and paved with cobble stones but the road in its full length does not exist anymore as such. National road G320 incorporated parts of the old road and some parts got abandoned. Now the new G56 four lane motorway replaces the G320 again. This modern, road with many bridges and tunnels, makes it possible to drive the entire length of the old Burma Road in hours.

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Transportation in Guizhou before trucks/cars and roads:

It used to take 18 days to go from Guiyang to Chongqing !

from “Kueichou – An Internal Chinese Colony,” by J E Spencer, Pacific Affairs, vol. 13,no 2,(Jun,1940), pp 162-172 quote from pp. 167

see whole article free with Google Books : http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2751051?uid=3737800&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102567805507

Trade routes in the Yuan dynasty. Note the “Southwestern Silk Road” passing through Yunnan (and a bit of Guizhou)

clicik here for full sized map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9479280594/sizes/l/in/set-72157634952466595/ , from http://www.drben.net/ChinaReport/Sources/China_Maps/China_Empire_History/Map-EurAsian_Trade_Routes-1200-1300AD-1A.html

Trans Asia Trade Routes, 1st century AD from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transasia_trade_routes_1stC_CE_gr2.png

A famous Chinese archaeological writer Bin Yang, whose work, ‘Between Winds and Clouds; The Making of Yunnan’, published in 2004 by the Columbia Universitypress and some earlier writers and archaeologists, such as Janice Stargardt strongly suggest this route of international trade as Sichuan–Yunnan–Burma–Bangladesh route. According to Bin Yang, especially from the 12th century the route was used to ship bullion from Yunnan (Gold and Silver being among the minerals in which Yunnan is rich), through northern Burma, into modern Bangladesh, making use of the ancient route, known as the ‘Ledo’ route. The emerging evidence of the ancient cities of Bangladesh, in particular Wari-Bateshwar ruins, Mahasthangarh, Bhitagarh, Bikrampur, Egarasindhur and Sonargaonare believed to be the international trade centers in this route.^[34]^[35]^[36]

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Silk_Road )

Guizhou-Guangxi railway (Guiyang-Liuzhou railway; Qian-Gui railway 黔桂铁路)

photo: The Guizhou-Guangxi Railway near the Layi Station in Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi.

The Guizhou-Guangxi Railway or Qiangui Railway (simplified Chinese: 黔桂铁路; traditional Chinese: 黔桂鐵路; pinyin: qiánguì tiělù), is a single-track electrified railroad in Southwest China between Guiyang in Guizhou Province and Liuzhou in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The shorthand name for the line, Qiangui, is derived from the shorthand names of Guizhou (Qian 黔) and Guangxi (Gui 桂).
The railway was originally built from 1939 to 1958 and had a total length of 607 km (377 mi). From 2004 to 2009, the line was rebuilt to add tunnels and bridges in place of switchbacks over mountainous terrain and reduced in length to 489 km (304 mi). Travel time between the two terminal cities has been reduced from 14 hours to 5 hours.[1]
Major cities and towns along route include Liuzhou, Liujiang, Liucheng, Yizhou, Hechi, Dushan County, Duyun, Guiding County, Longli County, and Guiyang. The Qiangui Railway is a major rail conduit in western China from Baotou in Inner Mongolia to Gulf of Tonkin.

History

Construction of the Guizhou–Guangxi Railway began under the Republic of China during World War II to provide the country’s wartime capital, Chongqing, with an outlet to the sea.[2] In April 1939, with the Japanese invasion threatening Jiangxi and Hunan Provinces, the Chinese government chose to abandon construction of the Hunan–Guizhou Railway and shifted personnel southwestward to the Guizhou–Guangxi corridor.[2] From September 1939 to February 1941, 161 km (100 mi) of track was laid in the plains from Liuzhou to Jinchengjiang (Hechi).[2] The 237 km (147 mi) Jinchengjiang to Dushan section was completed by May 1943, and gave rail access to the airfield at Dushan.[2] Dushan served as a base for the Flying Tigers and reception point for the allied air shipments over “the hump” from India. The Qiangui Railway was used to redistribute supplies to southern Guizhou and Guangxi.[2] Pilots shot down and rescued in rural Guangxi and Guizhou were sent to stations along route and transported by rail back to Dushan.[2]

On the electrified and rebuilt section of the Qiangui Line between Yizhou and Hechi.
Over 200,000 workers were mobilized for the project in Guangxi and 30,000 in Guizhou.[2] Over 2,000 workers died of disease and accidents.[2] Work on the final section from Duyun to Guizhou was halted in 1944 with the Japanese Ichi-Go Offensive. In November 1944, the Japanese captured Liuzhou and proceeded to travel up the railway to attack southern Guizhou. The Chinese forces defending Mawei, Dushan and Duyun proceeded to destroy the railway and train cars. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the Republican government began to repair the sections damaged by the war. The Chinese Civil War intervened and by 1949 only the Liuzhou-Jinchengjiang section had been restored.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the new government removed rails from 300-km unrepaired section from Jinchengjiang to Qingtaipo to build the Hunan–Guangxi Railway.[1] Construction on the Jinchengjiang to Duyun section of the Guizhou–Guangxi Railway resumed in 1955 and was completed in 1958. The entire line officially opened on on January 7, 1959. Aside from the Guiyang to Guiding section which had double-track, the rest of the line was single track.
Due to the mountain terrain and steep inclines on the line, average travel speed on the line was limited to 41 km/h (25 mph) for passenger service and 21 km/h (13 mph) for freight.[1] From December 2004 to January 2009, the railway underwent reconstruction to expand capacity.[1] The Luoman (Liujiang) to Jinchengjiang section of the line was largely rebuilt.[1] Entirely new lines were built between Jinchenjiang to Longli and between Liuzhou and Luoman.[1] The Liuzhou to Longli section was electrified.[1] As a result, the length of the line was shortened by 118 km (73 mi).[1] Travel speed rose to 160 km/h (99 mph) between Liuzhou and Jinchengjiang and between and 140 km/h (87 mph) between Jinchengjiang and Longli.

(from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guizhou%E2%80%93Guangxi_Railway)

photo:
On the electrified and rebuilt section of the Qiangui Line between Yizhou and Hechi.

Over 200,000 workers were mobilized for the project in Guangxi and 30,000 in Guizhou.[2] Over 2,000 workers died of disease and accidents.[2] Work on the final section from Duyun to Guizhou was halted in 1944 with the Japanese Ichi-Go Offensive. In November 1944, the Japanese captured Liuzhou and proceeded to travel up the railway to attack southern Guizhou. The Chinese forces defending Mawei, Dushan and Duyun proceeded to destroy the railway and train cars. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the Republican government began to repair the sections damaged by the war. The Chinese Civil War intervened and by 1949 only the Liuzhou-Jinchengjiang section had been restored.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the new government removed rails from 300-km unrepaired section from Jinchengjiang to Qingtaipo to build the Hunan–Guangxi Railway.[1] Construction on the Jinchengjiang to Duyun section of the Guizhou–Guangxi Railway resumed in 1955 and was completed in 1958. The entire line officially opened on on January 7, 1959. Aside from the Guiyang to Guiding section which had double-track, the rest of the line was single track.
Due to the mountain terrain and steep inclines on the line, average travel speed on the line was limited to 41 km/h (25 mph) for passenger service and 21 km/h (13 mph) for freight.[1] From December 2004 to January 2009, the railway underwent reconstruction to expand capacity.[1] The Luoman (Liujiang) to Jinchengjiang section of the line was largely rebuilt.[1] Entirely new lines were built between Jinchenjiang to Longli and between Liuzhou and Luoman.[1] The Liuzhou to Longli section was electrified.[1] As a result, the length of the line was shortened by 118 km (73 mi).[1] Travel speed rose to 160 km/h (99 mph) between Liuzhou and Jinchengjiang and between and 140 km/h (87 mph) between Jinchengjiang and Longli. )

also see: www.86wiki.com/view/274682.htm
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V. Transportation

Railways

Four trunk lines radiate from Guiyang, the capital city, to neighboring provinces with a total mileage of 1,468 kilometers. Electrification transformation has been completed along the Guiyang-Kunming, Sichuan-Guizhou and Hunan-Guizhou railways, which means 1,138 kilometers out of 1,468 kilometers are under electrified operation. This change has raised transportation capacity by 100 percent.

Guizhou is a key area for railway construction in the country. So far, the section of 227 kilometers within Guizhou Province on the Nanning-Kunming Railway has been launched into service. Construction of the second electrified track of the Shuicheng-Zhuzhou Railway which will include 596 kilometers running through Guizhou and which is to be the largest east-west transportation line in the country is soon to begin. Construction for the Shuicheng-Boguo and Huangtong-Zhijin railways with investment by both the central and local governments will also begin very soon. Once completed, these transportation archeries will further elevate Guizhou¡¯s position as a major transportation pivot in southwest China, and benefit the economic development not only in Guizhou but also in neighboring Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

Highways

Now there are over 30,000 kilometers of highways in operation in Guizhou, including five national highways and 30 provincial trunk lines which constitute a highway network with Guiyang as the center and linking up all cities and counties in the province. The first high-standard highway in the southwest¡ªGuiyang-Huangguoshu Highway has been completed while the one of the same standard between Guiyang and Zunyi was built in 1997

Waterways

In 1998, there were 33,604 kilometers of inland waterways in Guizhou with a transportation job of 3.15 million tons completed. This was 42.5 percent over the figure of the previous year.

Airports

By 1998, air routes had been opened to link up Guiyang with 26 cities including Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Guilin, Xiamen, Xian, Haihou, Changsha and Wuhan. The Longdongbao Airport, the newly completed large airport in Guiyang, was launched into service on May 28, 1997.

(from www.china.org.cn/e-xibu/2JI/3JI/guizhou/guizhou-ban.htm )

southwest China train lines, as of 2013, see enlarged map at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9513433053/sizes/l/in/set-72157634969538546/ from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Rail_map_of_China.svg/2000px-Rail_map_of_China.svg.png

current and planned high speed rail in China , see enlarged image at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9516300538/sizes/l/in/set-72157634969538546/, from

All aboard: High-speed rail network connecting China, March 2013,

http://www.kpmg.com/CN/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Newsletters/China-360/Documents/China-360-Issue7-201303-High-Speed-Rail-Network-v1.pdf

Train – Guiyang Train Station (贵阳火车站)
Guiyang’s train station is located near the heart of the city. As the station is SW China’s main hub, everyday there are about 100 trains that go to hundreds of cities in the area and all around China. (full list of Guiyang departures) Guiyang is a major stop that connects the east to Kunming (12 hours, about 130 yuan hard sleeper), the west to Guangzhou (30 hours, about 350 yuan hard sleeper) and the North to Chengdu (16 hours 170 yuan hard sleeper) and Chongqing (8 hours 100 yuan hard sleeper). There are no direct trains from Guiyang to Guilin but you can get to Hunan through Kaili. There is even a direct train from Guiyang to the island Hainan that transports you by boat (sleeper 300 yuan).

To buy a ticket one must be able to speak basic Chinese, come pre-prepaired with your written itinerary or use one of the ticket machines at the train station. You can buy a ticket at the train station starting 10 days prior to your departure. Throughout the city there are also small ticket booths where you can buy tickets for an extra 5 yuan. The most prominent one is located inside the Postal Savings bank across the street from Pizza Hut in Peng Shui Che.

Upon entering the city you can either take a public bus or a taxi. Across the street from the train station you will see many buses lined up. Bus 1 and 2 will take you to the center of the city. After the buses near the train station hotel there is a line for metered taxis. That being said taxis can be difficult to get, especially if you want a meter at night. Beware if you are foreign taxi drivers will try to overcharge you. A metered taxi in Guiyang starts at 8 yuan and goes up after you reach 2 km. If you can get a taxi to go to where you need to go for 10-15 yuan take it.
(from goguizhou.wikispaces.com/Transportation )

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Railway

Guiyang is a railway hub in southwest China. The Guizhou–Guangxi Railway (built in 1959, modified 2009), the Sichuan–Guizhou Railway (completed 1965), the Guiyang-Kunming Railway (completed 1970), and the Hunan–Guizhou Railway (completed 1975) are intersecting in Guiyang Railway Station. This main southern railway station is being rebuilt in 2008.
There are four high-speed rail lines to and from Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Kunming, and Changsha and that will commence operations within the next few years. The high speed railway lines will provide rapid freight service from two rail yards, and passenger service from a new high-speed railway station, called Guiyang North Railway Station, in the city’s Guanshanhu District.

(from Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiyang )

Jinyang 金阳(northwest district of Guiyang) Bus Station

Now main bus station for Guiyang. In Jinyang area 45 minutes to the northwest of Guiyang city center.

from goguizhou.wikispaces.com/Transportation :
By Bus
Guiyang has one major long-distance bus station in Jinyang.
The long-distance bus stations are also the best location to get buses to Anshun (60-90 minutes), the gateway to Guizhou’s signature Huangguoshu Waterfall. Buses north to Zunyi (two hours) depart every 30 to 60 minutes.

Car
Geography is what makes Guizhou so great but it also makes it hard to access. That is why the highway infrastructure in Guizhou is constantly undergoing repairs and upgrades. There are expressways to Chongqing, Zunyi and Anshun, Kunming and Kaili but they aren’t what you imagine when someone tells you it is an expressway. It is possible (although expensive, so it may be better to take the bus or train) to hire a car and driver between Guiyang, Zunyi and other cities starting at 500 yuan ($80) a day.

Transportation – Getting Around
Taxi
Taxi’s in Guiyang start at 8 yuan for the first 2 km and increase by 2 yuan for every 1km after that. Taxis can be hard to find during rush hour especially on main roads, if you are having problems finding a taxi, try a smaller road. Also Guiyang has many black taxis. Most of the time these taxis work perfectly, but there have been a few cases of black taxi drivers either trying to rip-off foreigners or trying to commit even worse crimes, use them at your own risk.

Public Bus
Public buses in Guiyang are cheap and extensive, but with larges amounts of people using them and Guiyang’s infamous traffic, they can sometimes be a pain to use, especially if you cannot get a seat. Below is a list of all the bus routes. You may click on the number to see where the bus goes, for how long and what to do/see at each station.

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Expressway

The city is located at the junction of four major segments of the national highway grid: the Gui-Huang, Gui-Zun, Gui-Bi, and Gui-Xin Expressways.
The Gui-Huang Expressway (G60) links Guiyang with the cities and tourist areas of central and western Guizhou including Anshun, Guanling, and the Huangguoshu Waterfall. The expressway continues west to Yunnan Province as the Gui-Kun Expressway and terminates at Yunnan’s capital city of Kunming.
G75 Lanzhou–Haikou Expressway runs north 180 km (110 mi) to Zunyi and is the most heavily travelled major highway in Guiyang. In Zunyi, the expressway becomes the Zunyi-Chongqing Expressway and runs a further 210 km (130 mi) north to Chongqing.
G76 Xiamen–Chengdu Expressway links Guiyang with the regional cities of Bijie and Dafang in northwest Guizhou province, southeastern Sichuan province, and the Sichuan cities of Luzhou, Neijiang, and Chengdu – Sichuan’s provincial capital. The Gui-Bi Expresway begins at an interchange with the Gui-Zun Expressway in the city’s Xiuwen County approximately 20 km (12 mi) north of the city center, before terminating at the city of Bijie. In the city of Dafang, approximately 40 km (25 mi) east of Bijie, the Gui-Bi Expressway connects with the new Sichuan-Guizhou Expressway, a modern highway providing access to Luzhou and central Sichuan.
The Gui-Xin Expressway begins at the junction of the Guiyang Outer Ring Road (G75-G60.01) and the Tang Ba Guan Road, approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) southeast of the city center. The Gui-Xin Expressway (G60-G75) runs east and southeast through the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (G76), passing through Guilin, before entering Guangdong, and terminating at Guangzhou.
Approximately 170 km (110 mi) east of Guiyang in the regional city of Kaili, the Hunan-Guizhou Expressway (G56-G60) links with the Gui-Xin Expressway providing high-speed vehicular access to and from Guiyang to the eastern Guizhou city of Tongren before continuing through Hunan to the major cities of Huaihua, Changde, and Changsha.
In 2009 Guiyang added a modern orbital expressway to its highway network. The Guiyang Outer Ring Road (Guiyang Orbital Highway) opened in December 2009 and is a six- to eight-lane divided high-speed expressway that provides efficient links to and from large employment centers in the Jinyang New District, Baiyun District, Huaxi District, the Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport, the major multi-lane national highways, and the city’s main roadways, allowing vehicular traffic to circumnavigate the heavy traffic of the city’s inner city areas.
China National Highway 210

(from Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiyang )

Gaotie high speed trains will come to future Guiyang North Station in Jinyang — hopefully in several years

see enlarged image at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9516188476/sizes/l/in/set-72157634969538546/

Guizhou to Chengdu:
成贵高铁起于成都南，途经乐山、犍为县、宜宾市、长宁县、兴文县而后进入云南境内过威信县、镇雄县最后再进入贵州省毕节市、大方县、黔西县东至贵阳市，形成四川至珠三角等沿海地区的快速大通道。成贵高铁全长约全长632.6公里，总投资780亿元，为客运双线高速铁路，行车速度250公里/小时，列车类型为和谐号动车组。工期4年半，建成后成都至贵阳从目前17小时减少为2小时左右。素有“世界第一条山区高速铁路”之称。
(from Baidu, baike.baidu.com/view/4766536.htm?fromId=2693963&redir… )

Guizhou to Guangzhou:
贵广高铁是中国一条建设中的连接贵州省贵阳市与广东省广州市的客运专线，线路自贵州贵阳北站起，经广西桂林、贺州、广东肇庆、佛山至广州的广州南站。设计线路长度861.7公里，设计标准是双线电气化客运专线，基础设施设计速度（土建设计速度）为300公里/小时的无砟铁路(其中，枢纽地段贵阳- 龙里和肇庆-广州为200~250km/h的有砟铁路），建成后贵阳至广州的列车运行时间将缩至4小时以内。2008年10月13日开工建设，工程投资858亿元，预计6年内完工。全长857公里，广东境内207.5公里、广西境内348.5公里、贵州境内301公里。
(from Baidu, baike.baidu.com/view/1961893.htm )

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Guiyang – Guangzhou high speed rail due to open Dec 24, 2014. [heard from Jack Porter’s travel agent, Nov 4, 2014]

High-speed ralway network in South China

Guiyang-Guangzhou high speed rail to open this December

2014-09-16 05:54:30 [http://english.cqnews.net/html/2014-09/16/content_31993802.htm]

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 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



				Guiyang–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway – Wikipedia, the… 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 bet…

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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 and Guangxi to the economic power houses of China in Guangdong and Hong Kong. It will allow for a massive reduction travel time between Guiyang and Guangzhou from 22 to 4 hours.

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 Guangxi province with its unique karst landscape.

Construction commenced in 2008 and is expected to take 6 years to complete.

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China Said to Plan $16.3 Billion Fund for ‘New Silk Road’

By Bloomberg News Nov 4, 2014 [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-04/china-said-to-plan-16-3-billion-fund-to-revive-silk-road.html]

China plans a $16.3 billion fund to finance construction of infrastructure linking its markets to three continents as President Xi Jinping pushes forward with his plans to revive the centuries-old Silk Road trading route.

The fund, overseen by Chinese policy banks, will be used to build and expand railways, roads and pipelines in Chinese provinces that are part of the strategy to facilitate trade over land and shipping routes, according to government officials who participated in drafting the plan.

More policies will be rolled out soon to encourage Chinese lenders to finance infrastructure in countries along the route connecting China to Europe, said the officials. They asked not to be identified as they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the plans. Chinese companies will also be urged to invest in the countries and bid for contracts, the officials said.

The New Silk Road plan, comprising a land-based belt and a maritime route, has been referred to as a Chinese national strategy after Xi first proposed the idea in Kazakhstan a year ago. It envisions an economic cooperation bloc through to the Mediterranean that revives the old Silk Road, where trade helped developed civilizations along the route.

“Previously, China focused on attracting foreign investment, but now the shift is being made — China’s more and more encouraging its capital to go abroad,” said Feng Yujun, senior researcher at theChina Institutes of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing.

APEC Summit

Xi’s overseas push comes as he tries to shape China as a great power, restoring its maritime dominance in the Asia-Pacific and extending its political and economic influence across the region, where it has been asserting itself in territorial spats. Next week, Xi will reinforce the image as he hosts U.S. President Barack Obamaand other world leaders at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing.

The State Council Information Office didn’t immediately respond to faxed questions seeking comment.

The fund will finance domestic infrastructure construction and will be overseen by Chinese policy banks such as China Development Bank, the officials said. Financing will be limited to regions in the plan: Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of Europe, they said.

The plan signals “a shift in China’s strategic thought,” said Zhang Yunling, director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at theChinese Academy of Social Sciences. The past three decades of China’s development have been focused on “absorbing foreign investment” and the next step will be about the outflow of Chinese development to its neighbors, he said.

Provinces Competing

Xi raised the “New Silk Road Economic Belt” idea at his speech in the Kazakhstan capital Astana on September 7, 2013. One month later, when addressing the Indonesian parliament in Jakarta, he pitched “the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.”

The proposal has inspired competition between officials from Chinese provinces, especially the poorer western regions, seeking to tap the funding. Vice premier Wang Yang said in September in Urumqi, the capital of the western Xinjiang region, that it had a “prominent role to play” in the economic belt and the central government “supports Xinjiang to seize the historical opportunity” to become the hub of the belt.

The southern province of Guangdong, a manufacturing center that helped power China’s economic rise over the past three decades, in early November hosted the inaugural international expo for the maritime Silk Road, with 42 countries participating.

India, Afghanistan

“One of the most important considerations in the strategy is its attempt to reduce the imbalance between the eastern coastal areas and the western inland areas,” Feng said.

Xi, who has said his home province Shaanxi was the starting point for the old Silk Road, has recently ramped up efforts to sell his strategy overseas. During state visits in September he secured verbal commitments from three countries along the routes — Tajikistan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. India has also shown interest and Afghanistan’s new president Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said at his summit with Xi in last week that his country was keen to be involved, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

According to a map published on the website of the official Xinhua News Agency in May, the land-based Silk Road starts from the ancient capital city of Xi’an, stretching west through Lanzhou and Urumqi before running southwest across Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

The sea-based Maritime Silk Road goes through Guangdong and the southernmost Chinese province of Hainan, an island, en route to the Malacca Strait and Indian Ocean. It traverses the Horn ofAfrica before entering the Red Sea and Mediterranean. The two roads are supposed to meet in Venice.

Once complete, the Silk Roads will bring “new opportunities and a new future to China and every country along the road that it is seeking to develop,” according to the Xinhua article.

old photos of Guiyang

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Ray

men’s fashions, 1940s Guiyang 贵阳人的穿着

this and many photos below found at: http://shanshuiqiancheng.soufun.com/bbs/3314011348~-1/53710480_53710480.htm, set of old photos of Guiyang uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/sets/72157634952466595/with/9485648640

Guiyang No. 3 Middle School 贵阳三种, 1949 photo, then later bldg on Yangming Rd 阳明路上的老三中, and the current building

在30年代初期，贵阳还几乎没有什么汽车，城中心的大十字到处都是人力车。

former Water Fountain (now paved over) 喷水池, Guiyang

【黔城往事】“喷水池”最后一瞥作者:黔山毛豆日期:2010-02-25
现在就是历史。贵阳市最繁华的“喷水池”原名“铜像台”，因铸造有周西成一尊铜像而得名。1933年开始筹建，历时两年半，于1935年夏建成。19 52年拆除铜像，改建为街心花园，中有喷泉，称为喷水池。此后，喷水池经过数度改造，终成为照片中的模样。2010年2月18日凌晨，喷水池拆除工程动工，将拆除现有环岛和雕塑，改为十字交叉口；在交叉口设置四个交通导流岛，导流岛内设喷泉小品和绿化，兼顾城市景观和延续“喷水池”历史传统。拆除以后，那个被贵阳人称为“巨大背篼”的城市雕塑将如何处置？择地放置？当废金属卖掉？或是融掉？

(from www.qtwm.com/default.asp?tag=%E9%BB%94%E5%9F%8E%E5%BE%80%… )

1930s Guiyang postal delivery 30年代贵阳的一个邮政局，大量的邮件正等待运出

Guizhou University, early phtoto 1942年成立的国立贵州大学

http://img1.soufun.com/bbs/2011_12/06/18/guiyang/1323166809645_000.jpg

Jiaxiulou, in Qing era photo 甲秀楼,

from www.gzbs.cn/photo/old/2009/0422/29979_3.html

from www.gzbs.cn/photo/old/2009/0422/29979_4.html

What happened to Guiyang’s memorial arches to women’s faithfulness on Youzha Road? Answer: Houses went up around them !

后来的油榨街的贞洁牌坊,贵阳

油榨街原来是这样的
这条到排满了贞洁牌坊的道路，就是后来的油榨街，表彰的是烈女节妇，记录的却是女人的命运，现在早已荡然无存……
一个担着货物进城的农民走在这样一条石头铺就的道路上，也算当时的一条大道了吧？

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【黔城往事】最后的牌坊：高张氏节孝坊作者:黔山毛豆日期:2009-02-05
贵阳老牌坊照片中的这些老贵阳牌坊位于今天的油榨街附近，是十九世纪下半叶到过贵阳的法国人拍摄的，这些牌坊沿道路整齐排列非常壮观。二十世纪中叶，老贵阳城及其附近先后有牌坊多达数百个，“在贵阳城内走不了几步就有一座牌坊”。但由于自然风化、年久失修、战争、城镇扩张、以及1949年以后的历史事件导致的严重破坏，在2002年出版的《贵阳掌故》一书记载说，老贵阳这数百座牌坊均已不存。

但在2003年9月，贵阳市南岳巷10号一片低矮、零乱的民宅中有人发现这座基本保存完好的，始建于清道光二十一年的牌坊——高张氏节孝坊。于是，在幸免的老牌坊再被发现之前，这座牌坊就是贵阳城区唯一幸存的古牌坊，也是贵阳至今仅存的四座古牌坊之一。其余三座古牌坊全部位于青岩古镇，分别是建于道光十九年的“赵彩章百岁坊”、建于道光二十三年的“赵理伦百岁坊”、建于同治八年的“周王氏、媳刘氏节孝坊”。

在陈正军的《贵阳牌坊话沧桑》文中，对这座“高张氏节孝坊”有着详细的介绍：“高张氏节孝坊”建于道光二十一(1841)年，竣工完成于道光二十二( 1842)年，高8米宽9米，从牌坊上文字可辨认出，牌坊呈南北走向，正面朝北，形制为三间四柱四阿顶式石结构，中间石坊上立斗型斗拱，中斗拱有“圣旨”，其余斗拱为神话传说浮雕图案；下部边柱有抱鼓石，中额石坊左右雕饰龙戏珠图(现已有裂痕，易毁落)。该坊之顶有圣旨，坊四柱均有石刻对联，其中中柱两侧联是：“茶类遭逢夫叹螟蛉子叹螟蛉半生冰雪留孤影；□贞偏附娣伤鸾凤姒伤鸾凤万古云霄矢此心”，正面次楼额匾刻写：“道光二十二年十月二十三日□□两浙运副贵筑县学附生大弟廉男培昀奉旨谨建”，小额匾刻:“处士张成瑶之……”背面次楼匾书：“道光二十一年……，匾下刻：“广东广州府知府高廷遥”。它已是贵阳市区保留的唯一古牌坊了。

在儒风的《贵阳古今牌坊（续）》中，关于这座“高张氏节孝坊”有如下文字：据牌坊所在的民居户主许弟兴老人讲，他家是在上世纪（黔山毛豆注：二十世纪）三十年代末住在那里，他说那里原有六个排列的牌坊，“高张氏节孝坊”排在最后一个，“文革”时曾有人想把它弄掉，因为其一民居狭窄，不便拖拉，其二，该牌坊位置离地面较高，也不易施工，随着时间推移，渐渐被人们忘记了。

我的“宝马”车，走街窜巷得靠它。

隐藏在破旧民居中的“高张氏节孝坊”，不太好找。

住在牌坊“里”的人家。

藏在民居里，缺乏保护的，贵阳市区唯一的古牌坊啊。

贵阳市仅存的，唯一的古牌坊——高张氏节孝坊。与其他历史、文化厚重的城市比起来，贵阳本来就没有什么可说道的，现在好不容易阴差阳错意外的有那么一点点“文物古迹”，但却完全没有得到应有的保护，再不保护就不用保护了，没了还保护什么？

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WW2 British army officers passed thru Guiyang in 1942 escaping Japanese takeover of Hong Kong, going to Burma Road

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Ray

Officers enjoying a day out in Guiyang, Jan 26 1942

photos from : www.hongkongescape.org/Legge.htm, uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9512944499/

Some of the Officers enjoying a day out in Guiyang with their female hosts who were from Shanghai

Sub-Lt Gee, Sub-Lt Brewer, Sub-Lt Legge, Lt parsons, Lt Kennedy. . Sub-Lt David Legge in the centre had lived in Shanghai and spoke the language, and so was the interpreter. Sophie Lim, and the Chen sisters.

On the right is Lt Alexander Kennedy of MTB 09, the author of the self published book “Hong Kong Full Circle”

www.hongkongescape.org/Escape_09-9.htm

Guiyang -Huachi Park, Jan-1942 ‘Escape from Hong Kong’

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23rd January 1942 (Fri)

Officers enjoying a social outing during their stay in Kweiyang 26th Jan 42 ;
Dr Lim’s daughter Effie is wearing a kilt and spoke her native tongue with a Glasgow accent.
Click here to enlarge ;

Photo from Alex Kennedy’s collection © L/S Les Barker: “Dawn start, on the way to Kwei-Ang. The road is very treacherous, covered with a layer of mud and all the time we are climbing. Raining very fine rain so it doesn’t give the road a chance to dry up. Plenty of traffic on the roads, and we also see Shetland ponies with bells on their heads. Sometimes these ponies were 40 or 50 in a line, led by one or two men.
We were skidding a lot this morning on this murderous road. 1015 – And our lorry failed to negotiate an ‘S’ bend and, before we knew what was happening, we toppled over, taking a complete turn and a half. Luckily we only had four injured, but if we had gone over once more there was a drop of 100 feet and we should have all been killed.
After, the lorry was hauled back to the right way up and, after treating the wounded and getting them away in another lorry, we piled back into the same lorry and proceeded again to Kweiyang, very much shaken by our experience and leaving the road littered with eggs and oranges.
Driving more carefully after that, we finally arrived at Kweiyang and were met by a party of Chinese Red Cross who had everything prepared, clothing, cigarettes, hot baths, etc. Very much appreciated by all hands.” [24]

MTB 07’s Fair Log: “On again at 7 am. Truck with Lt Collingwood overturned some 90km from Kweiyang. Three or four casualties—not serious, one with fractured collarbone. Last truck left Thulsaban? At 6.45 am. Maclongping At noon; sick man put in ambulance. Left at 2pm, arrived Kweiyang 7 pm.” [5]

L/S Les Barker “The road was treacherous and inches deep in mud. Just before the end of the journey, the lorry in which I and 13 companions were travelling failed to negotiate an “S” bend and turned a double somersault.” [24]

Lt Collingwood RN: “One truck skidded and turned and five men were hurt but it was put back on the road and we continued.” [8]

Sub-Lt Legge HKRNVR: “My truck, which was second in the convoy had about fifteen men inside with me in the back between two fifty gallon gasoline drums looking out backwards. My Captain (Collingwood) was in front with the driver. Going round a steep corner, we started to skid. On the off side was a drop of several hundred feet. Luckily we hit a large stone at the outside of the road, turned around across the road and turned over.
I didn’t realise what was happening until I found myself sitting in the mud in the road with the truck on top of me. The truck had only iron hoops and a canvas cover and we would all have been squashed had it not been for the fact that one of the gasoline drums fell on end with the end of the truck sitting on top of it.
We were in a pretty pickle, 80 kilometers from the nearest telephone, sitting in the rain and mud and no way of getting immediate help. Then as I was attending to one of the men who had a deep cut above the eye, he pointed out that blood was pouring down my face.
There were two other men fairly badly hurt, but except for extensive abrasions we couldn’t find out what was the matter. Then luckily the next truck came along. We transferred the wounded into that and with myself in the front set off 80 km. to Kweiyang where there was the nearest hospital. It was a terrible ride as not only was the road very bad with all the rain that was coming down, but the wounded men were in rather bad shape.
We had morphine with us but didn’t like to give it in case they had to have an immediate operation on arrival and couldn’t be given any more anesthetics.” [18]

L/S Les Barker: “Luckily only four were injured – but if the vehicle turned over once more it would have fallen 100 feet and the whole party would certainly have been killed. The Chinese driver wept. From then on he drove more carefully.” [24]

A/B Lenny Rann: “The road was full of hairpin bends and the truck in which I was riding capsized and several of the occupants were injured.” [66]

Dr Lim & Lt C J Collingwood R. N. with others in Guiyang
Photo from the Ashby collection ©
They eventually arrive at the Chinese International Red Cross headquarters in Guiyang, four thousand feet up in the mountains, which is the medical centre for the Chinese Army. Dr Robert Lim known by all as Bobby, a physiologist met them on arrival, he was educated at the “George Watson College” in Edinburgh and had married a Scots woman. He had served on the Western Front with British forces in the Great War of 1914-18. He set up the Chinese Red Cross after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1937. He was also a former golfing partner of Admiral Chan Chak. Lt Ron Ashby arrived later by ambulance. There they attended to the party’s injuries to the best of their abilities and Lt-Cmdr Gandy procured funds which enabled the party to do some essential shopping. They were billeted within the hospital complex.

PO Buddy Hide: “On the way a lorry overturned and three men suffered with broken bones. Guiyang is the medical centre for the Chinese Army. There they attended to our injuries to the best of their abilities and supplied us with Red Cross ambulances to take us to Lashio, in Burma.” [21]

Sub-Lt Legge HKRNVR: “The Chinese Red Cross has a wonderful hospital at Kweiyang, all mat sheds but very well run. They were prepared for us as we had arranged in advance to stay with them for a day or two. We found that two chaps had broken shoulder blades among other minor things. I had to have seven stitches put in the top of my head, which was not so pleasant as it was about five hours after the accident.” [18]

L/S Les Barker: “At Kuel-Ang, the Chinese Red Cross had everything prepared – food, beds, hot baths, clothing and cigarettes.” [24]

Lt Kennedy RNVR: “Accommodation for the whole party had been prepared in the hospital camp lying in a fold of the hills called Tuyunkwan, where Dr Lim took us himself and showed us around the huts. The meaning of Tuyunkwan we were told was cloud-earth-pass.” [9]

Eddie Brazel (HKRNVR): “Here we stayed at the headquarters of the Chinese International Red Cross, who had a wonderful place. During our stay of three days in Kweiyang we had a marvelous time, being entertained by Governor Wu amongst others, in addition we played the training school at football.” [49]

John Grindlay

Photo from Prof Al Lathrop, University of Minnisota collection ©There was also a visiting American Army surgeon with the American Military Mission to China (AMMISCA), 1st-Lt Dr. John Grindlay, of the U.S. Army Reserve.

US Army 1st-Lt Dr Grindlay: “About 2 p.m. great excitement — the 40 refugee sailors & Officers who escaped Xmas day from Hong Kong arrived — 32 in the first bunch. Rain & mud on road & one truck had skidded off & turned on side — resulting in several injuries — lacerations. Nearly all bearded.
The overturned truck came on a little later than first 2 & it was evening before Gandy & several officers & a sick man [Ashby] with] suspected typhoid came on. Altogether 16 officers, rest “ratings” Brewer, Legge, Collingwood, Kennedy, Gee, & Parsons were younger officers.
First men all slipped & skidded through mud to new barracks. These cleaned up & fires in gas drum stoves going. I am sure the arrangements pleased the men, also sure they didn’t know at what effort that had been arranged, & the cost of things procured — as the entire Chungking gin supply of Bobby’s (Dr Lim) they drank — Dr T F Chang — They drank 16 catties (1 1/3 pints) of mine.
Gandy, a retired Lt-Cmdr on active duty, very thoughtless and demanding type & not liked by the men.”
He had a long talk with Parsons who stated “Battle of Hong Kong a huge Brit disaster.” [37]

The party were given the freedom of the City after a speech by General Wu at the City hall and each was given a card showing the primitive life of the Chinese tribes, sealed with the Governor’s private seal and signature.

A/B Lenny Rann: “On January 23rd we arrived at the Chinese International Red Cross premises at Guiyang, where we were again well looked after and were given the freedom of the city by the governor.” [66]

At 4 p.m. they had a cinema show put on by the Red Cross followed by a few sketches put on by the navy party which brought hoots of laughter. Dr Lim offered the use of his Red Cross Ambulances to transport the party to Kunming, the Chinese end of the Burma Road as they were driving there empty to pick up medical supplies.

Lt-Cmdr Gandy RN accompanied by Lieut Pintendrigh RNR, and Sub-Lieut Brewer HKRNVR giving a speech in Guiyang.

24th January 1942 (Sat)

MTB 07’s Fair Log: “Visit to Governor in the morning. Conducted tour of centre in the afternoon, followed by a tea, & movies after dinner.” [5]

Lieutenant Commander Gandy R. N. (Rtrd) “Each member was given a memento of the visit.” [15]

Lt Collingwood RN: “Luckily my sub-lieutenant spoke Chinese so we were normally in the van for the feeding and sleeping arrangements.” [8]

Sub-Lt Legge HKRNVR: “We all bunked in a large dormitory, which had big stoves in the center, heaven to us after the places we had been sleeping. Also we had our first decent liquor. They were very good to us and we were looked after like kings. There were one or two pretty ex-Shanghai girls there, with whom I spent most of my time the next few days, rather, I think, to the jealousy of other less fortunate officers.” [18]

Major Goring had now recovered from his malaria attack at Kukong and proceeded by train to Kweilin and from there by air to Chungking. Lt-Col Harry Owen-Hughes and Dr Moore took him to the station.

Maj Goring BHQ: “After tea I said goodbye to the gallant little Admiral, whom I was very sorry to leave. I had liked him well in Hong Kong, and grown to love him during our journey, for he had shown himself not only a man of infinite pluck and resource, but also extremely thoughtful for others.” [17]

25th January 1942 (Sun)

Visit to Local Park at Huachi followed by soccer match in the afternoon, losing 6-1 against the Red Cross training school. Also in the afternoon a visit to the British run “Friends Ambulance Brigade” that was passing through Guiyang on their way into China. Kennedy soon spotted a A day out in Huachi park
Photo from the Hide family collection ©fellow Scot, Andy Braid, who it turned out had his pipes with him. As it was Burns night they took turns on the pipes.

MTB 07’s Fair Log: “Visit to park (Huachi) in the morning. Soccer match in afternoon, we lost 6-1. Dinner in the evening given by Governor.” [5]

Lt Kennedy RNVR: “I met a Scotsman in the wilds at the back of beyond. He used to go out into a rice field and play his bagpipes, to the great amazement of the local children and hordes of mongrel dogs which joined in the chorus.
The hut we were in was a small one and very soon indignant protests from the other members of the party forced us outside. It was getting dark as we played in turn along the edge of a paddy-field, some of the old marches from school-days, Barren Rocks, Pibroch of Donald Dhu, and the poignant notes of Loch Duich. We were totally absorbed and only when we stopped realised that a large crowd of children were watching us with aw from a safe distance with all the dogs in the neighborhood howling in the background.” [9]

In the evening they were all invited to a farewell dinner laid on by the Governor, who unfortunately was unable to attend. The evening passed with Dr Lim reciting “Ode to a Haggis” much to everyone’s surprise.[9] A very enjoyable evening was had by all with much local rice wine being consumed to the many shouts of “Kan-Pi.”

Lt Kennedy RNVR: “Many decided to leave the party before the national anthems were sung, but one resolute member, formerly the Coxswain of MTB 10 (CPO Thums) who had stayed too long was seen to stiffen like a ramrod during ‘The King,’ although he was lying flat on his face on the floor. The instant the singing stopped he shot to his feet as if revived and made for the door.” [9]

26th January 1942 (Mon)

Brucy the ships dog

Photo from the Collingwood family collection © Dr Lim’s daughter Effie who “wore the kilt and spoke her native tongue with a Glasgow accent” [9] Effie accepted Bruce the ships dog as a pet.
Luckily for most it was a late start for Kunming, leaving at noon, with Kelly & Deakin in hospital recovering from the lorry crash.
The convoy of five Red Cross ambulances were boarded. Now with Ashby fit enough to travel they made their way down the hill towards the city of Guiyang, picking up the main Chungking to Kunming highway, The Burma Road. The road across the plateau was extremely bumpy passing through many fortified village wall-gates, with the ever present choking dust in the open ended trucks.

MTB 07’s Fair Log: “Left for Kunming about noon. Reached ANHSUN late afternoon.” [5]

Eddie Brazel (HKRNVR): “We left Kweiyang on the 26th for Kunming, via Anshan, Annan, Penghu, Kut Sing, and arrived in Kunming on the 29th.” [49]

The drivers were much better than the party had experienced in the past, stopping hourly to keep the convoy together and refreshments.

(from www.hongkongescape.org/Legge.htm )

Also:

American soldier in Guiyang in the 1940s 二战时代美国士兵在贵阳

贵阳第二个比较大的发展时期，大概是抗战时期了。当时，贵州成了大后方，全国各地有大量的人涌入了贵阳，使这个小城市的人口迅速增加到了40多万，于是，到1941年，贵阳开始正式设市。城市建设也有了发展。在当时大十字的岗亭上，不仅有西门子的大钟显示这个城市的“现代”，而且还有值勤中国** 和美国士兵。 from http://shanshuiqiancheng.soufun.com/bbs/3314011348~-1/53710480_53710480.htm

Catholic churches, Guiyang: ‘North’ Church, near Youyi Rd 贵阳北天主教堂,近友谊路; South Church Xinhua Rd & Xinglong Rd 贵阳南天主堂, 位于贵阳新华路与兴隆街交汇处

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Ray

Guiyang ‘North’ Catholic Church, near Youyi Rd 贵阳北天主教堂

Biggest in Guizhou province, built in 1875 in a mixture of Western and Chinese styles. Masses on Sunday at 9:00 am and 7:00 pm. There is an active seminary training Chinese priests at the site. Map:

interior

front detail, incl. rose window, date of consturction 创建时间和玫瑰花窗

before restoration, from www.chiyou.name/page/new/2007/ywdls/

See many Guiyang historical photos, including this church, described in a Chinese article at: http://shanshuiqiancheng.soufun.com/bbs/3314011348~-1/53710480_53710480.htm

十九世纪的贵阳天主教堂。清乾隆三十九年（1774年）天主教传入贵阳。道光三十年（1850年）天主教贵州教区第一任主教白斯德望修建了贵阳第一所正式天主教堂。同治十三年贵州主教李万美将原教堂拆除重建，光绪元年因火灾使即将完成的教堂付之一炬，后再行重建，于次年完工，即今上北堂之大教堂。目前，贵阳北天主教堂仍是全省天主教的中心和最大的教堂。

images from : www.chiyou.name/page/lzp/btzt.htm , from www.17u.com/blog/article/1519083.html , uploaded at http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9480998747/in/set-72157634952466595 , http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9483733368/in/set-72157634952466595/

Guiyang’s “South” Catholic Church 贵阳南天主堂, 位于贵阳新华路与兴隆街交汇处

Article in Chinese with photos of this and still other Catholic churches and related buildings in various stages of repair, at: www.xiangtu.org/archives/286.html , photo and aricle in Chinese uploaded at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98531730@N02/9481304907/in/set-72157634952466595/

Zimmer Foundation for China, for Tongren city, Guizhou prov.

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Ray

from www.zimmerfoundation.org/about/index.php

The Zimmer Foundation for China was established to implement holistic programs to improve the economic and spiritual conditions in rural Guizhou. The Zimmer Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization established in memory of Rev. & Mrs. Gerald R. Zimmer who served in China 1936-1948.
Rev. & Mrs. Gerald R. Zimmer were Educators who, in the middle 1930s decided they wanted to be missionaries and went to China to preach and teach. They went to a very remote area in the interior, to a small town of Tongren. There they lived with the people, learned their language and customs and worked to improve their situation.

They saw a need for teachers and help to found the Tongren Teachers College, which has since grown to be a full fledged university; Tongren University. The same desire Rev. & Mrs. Zimmer had to support needy students with scholarships is being carried on today with the generosity of people like you.

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The Zimmer Foundation initiated a scholarship program in 2004 that supports the major cost of education for students annually for the second, third and final years at Tongren University. Now, over twenty students have been provided scholarships. It was our vision that at least two students will be added each year over a ten year program. Many donors have allowed us to exceed our visions of the scholarship program. The selection of the students is based upon their academic achievements and financial needs. The student’s family is identified with an income at or less than the poverty level established by the Tongren prefecture officials.
In villages of rural China, many students are the first of their family to complete college. Zimmer Foundation has arranged to financially support specific students with financial needs. The eligibility for receipt of such scholarships is first year college students with academic excellence who come from very poor families. Often these are children of farmers whose annual income is less than $264 USD. The families earn below the declared poverty level defined by each county.

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Peace Corps China blog : My Life as a Complex Adaptive System

The Zimmer Foundation

2010 November 8, Posted by sky

This a short post tonight because it is so late, but I have a great story to tell. Since I arrived in Tongren, I have heard about a man affectionately called “uncle Stan.” His parents were missionaries in China and helped set up a hospital as well as the first church in Tongren. Several years ago, uncle Stan set up a foundation called the Zimmer Foundation. Its mission is to improve the quality of life in rural China, specifically by investing in education. The foundation sponsors a scholarship fund that relieves the financial burden that many of the students, who come from remote farming villages, face at Tongren University.

I had the pleasure of meeting uncle Stan today and I must say that he is quite an amazing man. I found out that he was born in Tongren and lived here for 5 years before moving to America. He had a long, illustrious career with IBM and since he retired has dedicated his life to helping people in his “hometown”.

His story and what he is doing is extremely inspirational and I wanted to include the link to his foundation’s website for you to have a look. Hooray for good people! zimmerfoundation.org/index.php

(taken from Sky Lantz-Wagner’s blog, skylantzwagner.blog.com/2010/11/08/the-zimmer-foundation/ )

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Measurable holistic services provided to needy students
1. Over 30 University Scholarships in rural China
a. Goal of minimun two each year
b. Meet total tutition and board for three years
c. Regular visits; banquets, outtings
2. Encouragement to local church
a. Regular visits and updates
b. Provision of Bibles and study materials
c. Provision of furnishing and church needs
3. Outreach to Local orphange
a. Encourgment to orphans
b. Visitation by scholarship students
c. Medical support
d. Collaboration with other NGOs

(from Stan Zimmer’s LinkedIn page,http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=35057346&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=uZSq&locale=en_US&srchid=1285106101376488877548&srchindex=3&srchtotal=5&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId:1285106101376488877548,VSRPtargetId:35057346,VSRPcmpt:primary )

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old photos of Guiyang

men’s fashions, 1940s Guiyang 贵阳人的穿着

Guizhou University, early phtoto 1942年成立的国立贵州大学

Jiaxiulou, in Qing era photo 甲秀楼,

from www.gzbs.cn/photo/old/2009/0422/29979_3.html

WW2 British army officers passed thru Guiyang in 1942 escaping Japanese takeover of Hong Kong, going to Burma Road

Officers enjoying a day out in Guiyang, Jan 26 1942

Guiyang -Huachi Park, Jan-1942 ‘Escape from Hong Kong’

American soldier in Guiyang in the 1940s 二战时代美国士兵在贵阳

Catholic churches, Guiyang: ‘North’ Church, near Youyi Rd 贵阳北天主教堂,近友谊路; South Church Xinhua Rd & Xinglong Rd 贵阳南天主堂, 位于贵阳新华路与兴隆街交汇处

Zimmer Foundation for China, for Tongren city, Guizhou prov.