Daqing: Oil City | Spartan Wanderer
Daqing is a small Chinese city in the middle of the country’s largest oilfield and the world’s fourth most productive. The infrastructure required for the oil snakes its way throughout the city like veins. Oil pumpjacks groan in city parks, pipelines hang over major highways and the fires of refineries can be seen from a kindergarten’s windows. Here’s just a small sample of some pumpjacks in and around the City Forest Park.
Visit for simplicity, travel and fun!
Facebook:
Twitter:
Google+:
About.Me:
Need a shirt?
“Ossuary 7 - Resolve” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Novotel Daqing Haofang
Located in the Central District Business, Novotel Daqing Haofang is only 5 minutes by foot from Sanyong Lake and Qinglongshan Garden. With the City Bus Station just at the hotel front door, enjoy an easy access to famous attractions in the city, which include The Iron Man Wang Jinxi Memorial Museum and Oil Museum. The perfect choice for business and leisure travelers in Daqing.
No2 Longxiang Road, Longfeng District, Daqing, China 163000
Phone: (+86)4596536666
Tianjin | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Tianjin
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Tianjin ([tʰjɛ́n.tɕín] (listen)), formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the nine national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper. It is governed as one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of central government of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government. Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. Part of the Bohai Economic Rim, it is the largest coastal city in northern China.
In terms of urban population, Tianjin is the fourth largest in China, after Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. In terms of administrative area population, Tianjin ranks fifth in Mainland China. The walled city of Tianjin was built in 1404. As a treaty port since 1860, Tianjin has been a major seaport and gateway to Beijing. During the Boxer Rebellion the city was the seat of the Tianjin Provisional Government. Under the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China, Tianjin became one of the largest cities in the region. At that time, numerous European-style buildings and mansions were constructed in concessions, many of which are well-preserved today. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tianjin suffered a depression due to the policy of the central government and Tangshan earthquake, but recovered from 1990s. Nowadays Tianjin is a dual-core city, with its main urban area (including the old city) located along the Hai River, which connects to the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers via the Grand Canal; and Binhai, a New Area urban core located east of the old city, on the coast of the Bohai Gulf. As of the end of 2010, around 285 Fortune 500 companies have set up base in Binhai.