2016 China Trip Day 11 in LongSheng Rice Terrace & Elephant Trunk HIll, Guilin, GuangXi, China
The Longsheng Rice Terraces, also called the Longji Rice Terraces, are located in Longsheng County, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Guilin, Guangxi, China. The terraced fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top, between 600 m to 800 m above sea level. A coiling terrace line that starts from the mountain foot up to the mountain top divides the mountain into layers of water in spring, layers of green rice shoots in summer, layers of rice in fall, and layers of frost in winter. The terraced fields were mostly built about 650 years ago. Longji (Dragon's Backbone) Terraced Rice Fields received their name because the rice terraces resemble a dragon's scales, while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the dragon. In early June, water is pumped over the rice paddies and young plants are transferred to the main terraces.
The Elephant Trunk Hill (Chinese: 象鼻山; pinyin: Xiàngbí Shān) is a hill, landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China. It is the symbol of the city of Guilin. It got its name because it looks like an elephant drinking water. The round opening that would be under the elephant’s trunk is known as Water-Moon Cave because at night the reflection of the moon can be seen through the arch and it looks as if it is under the water and floating on the surface of the water at the same time. Elephant Trunk Hill and Water-Moon Cave are located at the confluence of the Taohua River and the Lijiang River
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Medical Qigong Retreat to Qingchen Mountain (青城山), Sichuan, China
Join Us...Medical Qigong Retreat to Qingchen Mountain (青城山), Sichuan, China
Dates: March 8 - 24, 2014
Location: Qingchengshan (青城山), Sichuan, China
Taught by: Thomas Leichardt, L.Ac, DMQ (China) and Master Zhang
Prerequisites: All are welcome. Prior experience with qigong is highly beneficial.
A Spot of Tea! To learn more about this journey and the Medical Qigong Programs, please join us on Wednesday: 7/17/13, 7pm-8pm at the San Jose Campus
Both administrators and Instructor Tom Leichardt will be present to meet all prospective adventurers and answer any questions. Refreshments will be provided! Please register your attendance with Catherine Ng at extadmin@fivebranches.edu.
Course Outline:
Thomas Leichardt will lead a group of adventurers to Qingcheng mountain, a magical place where both the inner and outer journey initiates powerful transformation and change. Joyful exploration of inner alchemy practices, along with the splendid beauty of luscious mountain terrain will carry each participant to new heights and depths of self awareness and inner alignment with pure positive Source energy. Qingcheng mountain is one of the sacred mountains of China, a cradle of Daoist philosophy and cultivation. Special opportunity to cultivate and reflect in this environment will provide the perfect backdrop for a deep and joyous journey into the heart of Daoist practices, and our own inner alignment with source energy.
Thomas will lead qigong sessions, and Master Zhang, when available, will lead meditations and Daoist cultivation practices. Afternoons will be free for exploration of the mountain's many temples, trails, and magical places. Space is limited!!
Cost: $2550
Costs include travel from Cheng Du airport to the mountain, all meals and accommodations on the mountain, instruction, translation, organization, and gate entrance fees. Each hotel room will have two participants and students are welcome to choose roommate ahead of time. There is an option of having a single room for an additional cost of $400. Costs do not include travel to Cheng Du, Chinese visa, nor shopping on the mountain.
Optional Local Hikes Before the Trip:
Optional local hikes with the instructor before the trip will help us condition our body for the mountains in China. These hikes will also be an excellent time for group bonding and socializing, and to create group cohesion before the trip. It is encouraged to join these hikes, or to hike on your own to condition your body, as many beautiful temples and natural places in China will require considerable uphill hiking.
Registration Information:
To register for this course, please email Catherine Ng at extadmin@fivebranches.edu or call the San Jose Extension Office at (408) 345-2654. $500 Deposit is due by October 1, 2013 to secure a spot as space is limited.
Assignment Asia: Migrant Father and Son
Every once in a while, we see the latest figures on the state of China’s booming economy. But what many people on the outside may not know – is that the real backbone of industry, is the migrant worker. These are the people who leave their towns, by the millions, to work in the cities. They are builders, electricians, clothing makers – you name it. But some young migrant workers today – see opportunities beyond work life. Yin Hang started his story in Beijing, then travelled to Taiqian in Henan province, where he met two workers – a father and son – who have very different ideas.
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CCTV-9: Gov´t doing all to improve living standard
Ministry of Housing: Gov´t doing all to improve living standard in quake-hit areas
WATCH VIDEO
Source: CCTV.com | 05-16-2008 21:19
Special Report: Strong quake jolts SW China
Portable stoves, water filters and toilets are among the items being rushed to disaster areas to ease living conditions for survivors. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction says it's sparing no efforts to speed help to the affected areas.
Young victims of the earthquake have aroused the concern of people nationwide. Some ask why school buildings appear to have sustained more damage than other structures. The Minister of Housing and urban-Rural Construction explained that in accordance with the national standard, houses in Sichuan are built with to withstand an earthquake up to magnitude 7. In Monday's quake the intensity reached 10-11. He said the investigation continues into the reasons schools appear to have bee hardest hit.
Jiang Weixin, Minister of Housing said Now our priority is to save lives. Estimation and analysis of the fallen buildings is still in progress. From what I saw on the scene, not only school buildings collapsed, but the surrounding houses as well. We're especially saddened by the number of student casualties. If the final investigation shows there's were inadequacies in the construction, we'll certainly provide the appropriate remedies.
More than 4 million buildings were damaged or destroyed by the quake in Sichuan province. People remain in critical need of housing. That raises another problem for the government: how will homeowners retain ownership of houses for which they had already paid?
Jiang Weixin said We're still studying this problem and making plans. For example, we may build a number of houses for temporary accommodation over two or three years. The number remains to be determined. There may be many people willing to accept a subsidy and live with their relatives. We are just raising this plan, the final approval lies with the central government.
Many naturally are worried about their families in Sichuan. 1.2 million migrant workers from Sichuan are spread all over China. And the ministry says this is not a good time for them to go home.
Jiang Weixin said We'll comfort them and persuade them not to rush home. Transport, telecommunication and living conditions are all badly disrupted in quake-hit areas. Saving lives is the priority, so transport and communication should all be used to support the rescue work.
Jiang Weixin said Water and electricity supplies have been severely disrupted in 20 cities and counties in the province. For the large number of survivors now living in makeshift tents, Jiang Weixin said the government is doing everything it can to improve their living conditions.
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JIEGU, China, 26 April 2010 When this small town in remote western China was hit by an earthquake on 14 April, 13-year-old Sangqiuyixi was sweeping the floor of his classroom at Yushu No.2 Ethnic High School. He broke the window and managed to escape.
The magnitude-7.1 earthquake took a heavy toll on schools. Local authorities estimate that 80 per cent of primary schools and half of secondary school buildings in the county were severely damaged.
In addition to the aid provided by the Chinese Government, UNICEF is sending school tents, school supply kits and generators, as well as warm clothing and blankets for students in the affected areas.
The agency is also joining hands with Chinas National Working Committee on Children and Women to establish child-friendly spaces where young survivors of the earthquake can receive psycho-social support in a protective environment.
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EmrysGoesGlobal
Travelling for 176 days across 14 countries summarised into this 3:03 video.
Music: Crystal Fighter - Follow (Benga Remix)
Locations in order:
East side gallery Berlin Germany
Holocaust memorial Berlin Germany
Reichstag Building Berlin Germany
Oktoberfest Munich Germany
Colloseum Rome Italy
Rome from the spanish steps Italy
Italy - Greece ferry
Athens Greece
Parthenon Athens Greece
Old town Zagreb Croatia
Plitvice lake National Park Croatia
Stradun Dubrovnik Croatia
Dubrovnik old town Croatia
Lokrum Island Croatia
sunset from mount srd Croatia
Adriatic sea kayaking Croatia
Kupari Croatia
Cathedral in Wieliczka Salt Mine Poland
Wieliczka Salt Mine Poland
Main square Krakow Poland
Gdansk old town Poland
St Petersberg metro Russia
Tsars winter palace St Petersberg Russia
St Basils cathedral Moscow Russia
Moscow state circus Russia
Red square Moscow Russia
Trans siberian railway Russia
Lake Baikal Russia
Chinggis Khan statue Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Terelj National Park Mongolia
Chinggis Khan equestrian stature Mongolia
Donghuamen Night Market Beijing China
One of Beijings busy hutongs China
The great wall of China
The hall of supreme harmony the forbidden city Beijing China
The forbidden city Beijing from Jingshan hill China
The summer palace Beijing China
Shanghai skyline China
Yu garden Shanghai China
Terracotta army China
Drum tower Xian China
Giant panda breeding research base Chegdu China
Leshan giant buddha China
Mount Emei summit China
Cloud sea Mount Emei China
Three gorges yangtze river China
Yangshuo China
Li river China
Hong Kong from victoria peak
Temple street market Hong Kong
Skytree Tokyo Japan
Shibuya crossing Tokyo Japan
Tsukiji fish market Tokyo Japan
Motofuchie park Tokyo Japan
Wat Saket Bangkok Thailand
View of bangkok from Wat Saket Thailand
Khao san road Bangkok Thailand
Grampians National Park Australia
Adelaide Hills forest fire damage Australia
Barossa Vally vineyard Australia
Bondi Beach Australia
Sydney harbour bridge Australia
Sydney opera house Australia
South Pacific Ocean from most easternly point of Australia Byron Bay
Lake Mckenzie Fraser Island Australia (mid cyclone)
Sand road and rain forest Fraser Island Australia (mid cyclone)
Sailing the Whitsundays Australia
Whitehaven Beach Australia
Whitsunday Island Australia
Great Barrier Reef and sand bar Australia
Lake Hawea South Island New Zealand
Nevis bungee 134m Queenstown South Island New Zealand
Driving to Milford Sound South Island New Zealand
Milford Sound South Island New Zealand
Church of the good shepherd and lake Takepo South Island New Zealand
The Bay of Islands from Pahia North Island New Zealand
Home Sweet Home England
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China Said: No Karma for Its Corrupted Officials
Parents in China blame poor construction for a school's collapse during the earthquake.
China's Heaviest Toll: Schoolchildren
It was built out of tofu, says Hu Yuefu, 44, of the school building that collapsed in the magnitude 7.9 quake and killed his 15-year-old daughter Huishan. He believes local government officials and the building contractors are responsible. As he speaks, a crowd gathers around to listen and offer their support. I hope there is an investigation, Hu says. Otherwise, there are a thousand parents who would beat them to death.
That anger is flowing in communities across the disaster zone. While the overall death toll has passed 21,500 and is expected to climb as high as 50,000, there is special tragedy — and perhaps a whiff of scandal — in the number of young people who died in collapsed schools. Communities like Juyuan have had an entire generation of young people wiped out. In the nearby city of Dujiangyan, more than 300 students were killed when the Xinjian Elementary School collapsed. Sixty miles away in the mountainside town of Hanwang, the scene repeated itself at the Dongqi Middle School, where an estimated 200 students died. Five children were killed when two schools even collapsed in Chongqing, the state-run Xinhua News Service reported. The city is more than 200 miles away from the quake's epicenter.
The devastation is a reminder that for all of its explosive economic growth, parts of China are still painfully poor. While cities like Shanghai boast some of the world's tallest and most advanced buildings, rural areas are often plagued by substandard structures. During the 1990s China updated its building codes to standards that approximate those of the U.S. and Europe, says Greg Wong, a Hong Kong--based structural engineer who has worked in China since 1985. But those standards aren't always met, he says, especially in the countryside. If they spent more money and build buildings half as good as schools in North America or Hong Kong or even Beijing, I think they would have had a better chance of escaping this disaster, he says.
Part of the problem is money. Until recently local governments were expected to carry up to half of the expenses for local education, says Joseph Cheng, a political science professor at City University of Hong Kong. That created an incentive to skimp. In the interior provinces, governmental supervision is very lax, he says. Education is not a priority area. You can cut corners. Even now, provincial economic plans list yearly targets for the reduction of unsafe schools, illustrating the extent to which low school budgets have compromised safety. It's a widely recognized problem, Cheng says.
Some parents in Sichuan argue that the problem goes beyond shortchanging schools. They allege that local officials are responsible for allowing unsafe buildings to go ahead. The government and the construction companies collude with each other, says Hu, whose daughter's corpse was pulled out from the Juyuan Middle School two hours after it collapsed on Monday. It's in their interest to build them poorly.
In China it is often at the local level, where officials have the most direct impact on citizen's lives, that corruption is most common and bears the most painful consequences. While that problem is widely recognized, the collapse of schools after the Sichuan quake has turned it into a major public issue. During a State Council press conference this week, a journalist from the state-run China Daily asked why so many schools were destroyed by the tremor, while government buildings seemed comparatively intact. It was not just schools that collapsed, but because children were buried we pay close attention to that, replied Wang Zhenyao, disaster relief director for the Ministry of Civil Affairs. But in Beichuan county the civil administration building collapsed, and there were possibly casualties. The government buildings aren't all that firm. Still, online message boards teemed with demands for answers as to why so many schools were destroyed. After the disaster is over, there should be an investigation of who built the schools, the material problems and whether there was a problem of corruption. I think there definitely was, wrote one person on a Tianya web forum.
Not everyone in the disaster zone is ready to accuse the local officials of corruption, but they are still demanding answers. It's a question we are asking, says Feng Jianyun, 34, who was sitting outside the Jiuzhou Sports Center in Mianyang, which has been turned into a center for thousands of people left homeless by the quake. How could a place with so many people inside not be built better? That's what I want to know. We should not forget a lesson that has been learned in blood.
Holding Panda in 成都 June 2012
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