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Seminar on China: The Place and the Peoples A Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad 2010 Texas A&M University. May 31 to July 2, 2010. Itinerary. May 31: Houston to Beijing June 1- 9: Beijing June 10 to 13: Huhehot (air) June 14 to 17: Nanjing (air) June 17: Suzhou, and Shanghai (train) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Seminar on China: The Place and the PeoplesA Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad 2010
Texas A&M University
May 31 to July 2, 2010
May 31: Houston to Beijing
June 1- 9: Beijing
June 10 to 13: Huhehot (air)
June 14 to 17: Nanjing (air)
June 17: Suzhou, and Shanghai (train)
June 19: Kunming (air)
June 23: Lijiang (air)
June 27: Beijing (air)
July 1: Beijing Houston (air)
Itinerary
Běijīng: (Peking)Capital of the People’s Republic of China China’s second largest city with 17 million people in Beijing’s area of jurisdiction.
Beijing is one of the three mega - cities in China under the direct jurisdiction of the central
government, and it is divided into 10 districts and 8 counties.
The political, educational, and cultural center of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing
Tiananmen Square
Forbidden City
Hohehot: Mongolian for “Green City" Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in Northern China.
Lies between the Yinshan Mountain and the Yellow River.
Hohhot dates from 306 B.C. and is an important cultural centre of the region.
Today it is the most important city in Inner Mongolia and is home to 36 different ethnic groups:Mongolian, Han, Manchu, Hui, Tibetan, Dawoer, Elunchun, Ewenke and Korean, etc.
The city zone covers 17,224 square kilometers (6,650.19 square miles) with a population exceeding 1,400,000.
Dazhao Temple
Kubqi DesertMuseum of Inner Mongolia
Hohehot
Nanjing: Capital of Jiangsh Province
Located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the Yangtze River Delta.
Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China before the Chinese Civil War in in 1949.
With an urban population of over five million (2006), Nanjing is the second largest commercial center in the East China region, after Shanghai.
Nanjing was one of the earliest established cities in the southern China area (495 BCE)
Capital of China under six dynasties.
Suzhou: Train from Nanjing to Suzhou to Shanghai
Train Station in SuzhouSuzhou Garden & River
Shanghai: Shanghai Expo 2010:"Better City, Better Life," representing the common wish of the whole humankind for a better living in future urban environments. May 1 to Oct. 31
Urban Planet PavilionOriental Pearl TV Tower
China Pavilion
Kunming & Lijiang
Kunming: Spring City
Dian Chi Lake
Stone Forest
Lijiang
Yu Long Snow-Glacier Mountain
Mo-Ling Minority
Lu Ku Lake
Market Street
Seminar on China: The Place and the PeoplesA Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad 2010
Texas A&M University