Archive for the ‘City Life’ tag
A Trip to Zhenjiang
I had a trip to Zhenjiang during the Middle Festival. Zhenjiang is a city with more than 3000 years history in the southwest of Jiangsu province. It is about 2 hours train from Shanghai and is suitable to visit in the weekend, when it will be no crowd. I just stayed in Zhenjiang for one day and may not catch the highlight spots of the city, but it is worthy a visiting IMO. What I want to mention about in this blog is the Xijindu Ancient Street, which is the most concentrated and most intact historic district in Zhenjiang.
The roof of the Xijindu residential area
A corner of the Xijindu historic street
Zhenjiang is an important transportation hub in the recent history, owing to its location near the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, and in which condition, the UK built the British Consulate in 1889 in Zhenjiang Xijindu.
The British Consulate in Zhenjiang since 1889
There are residential buildings since the late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic, and are still inhabited. The buildings are in old style and the doors attract me.
Zhenjiang’s special food are Guogai noodle (锅盖面) and Yao meat (肴肉). I like them very much and still have aftertaste.
Problems of Elementary Education in China
Last time I talked about the situation of English education in China. In that post, I mentioned the child of my colleague. A good news is that he has already transfered to a school in Shanghai. After several days observation, I’d like to discuss the elementary education in China.
In Shanghai, pupils need to arrive school before 8am and classes are over around 3pm to ease the traffic pressure, which also applies to many other cities.
How to Give Present in China
One of Julia’s good friends is going to hold a wedding ceremony this Saturday in Shanghai. Julia is busy in preparing a gift, but she is lost because she can not decide what to prepare.
Not as those people in US and UK, people in China are used to send some money as wedding or birthday gifts. People that with very good relationship may give some special non-money gifts additionally.
Pay Duty for Oversea Proxy Purchases
Since today, domestic customs will begin levying duty on imported postal items priced as low as 50 RMB. Before, only goods priced above 400 RMB from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, or 500 RMB from other places would be charged tax.
As imported cosmetics in China are much expensive than that in US and concerning about the milk safety, proxy purchase of milk formula and cosmetics from overseas is very popular in the city of China.
Nuomi.com Launched the Shanghai Site
Nuomi.com, a member of Oak Pacific Interactive Group, is a group purchasing website like Groupon. It launched its Shanghai site after Beijing.
Group purchasing becomes popular in China after Meituan.com copied Groupon from US to China early this year. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Groupon style websites have been launched. This is a typical ‘made in China’ mode.
