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Lush Mountain Panoramas of Qiyun Shan Eddakath's photos around Tunxi, China

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Entry from: Tunxi, China
Entry Title: Lush Mountain Panoramas of Qiyun Shan

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Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya,

This night finds me out on the balcony of the Ancient Street Youth Hostel chatting to two very cute girls, one a traveller from Germany who is here for a month and the other a Malaysian medical student who has been here for three and a half years. The night is slowly becoming more and more humid not just because they are cute but there actually was a gentle breeze that was keeping us cool before but now it seems to have gone in search of a more cool place for itself to wisp, whirl and play..

The typhoon that hit and is causing widespread damage and death in southern China has sent its angry storm clouds our way. Last night and it poured and it has continued all day today.

This night (Monday, 10th) was supposed to find me in Jiangxi Province but when I woke this morning to find rain so hard that I couldn't see out my window I rolled over and fell back to sleep until well after midday. By then there were no more buses to Wuyuan so once again I rolled over and fell back to sleep until six in the evening. I then decided that I really should rise, shine and do something with my last night in the Huangshan area.

Of course I didn't do anything except slowly walk down town.
I then pulled up a chair on this here balcony!

For those who are thinking of coming to China and have only limited time then I do believe I have the place for you, Anhui Province! Base your self in Tunxi town and you will have something new to do each day for the next week or two. You can climb, you can raft, you can climb, you can hike, you can relax, you can climb, you can ride, you can eat western food, you can eat Huizhou food, you can climb, you can eat Chinese food, you can drink western beer and you can also drink Chinese beer.

And just in case I forgot to mention it, you can also climb.
You can pretty much do anything you wish here in southern Anhui Province.

I actually had no idea that it was going to be this way, I thought I'd come and climb Huangshan and then scamper to a new spot but here I can still be found nearly ten days later and there are still things I can see and do if I wished to stay longer. I don't want to leave and I honestly will miss being here. It is not that often a 'spot' hits me like this so it makes it all the more difficult to leave but tonight the bar will soon close and I will have to finish my last ice cold Corona with lime and then slowly wander towards home until a pedicab driver accepts my small payment of four or five Yuan back to the train station.

I will then silently sit in the back looking out at the world wondering if this really is me living this life or will I wake up when my alarm wakes me to get up for work back in the law courts in Australia. Let's hope not shall we!

I will miss my slow and silent ride home that allows a soft breeze to ruffle my feathers.

I know some of you are wondering what in the world could be left for me to do here in the Tunxi area but today I had the most amazingly wonderful day climbing Qiyuan Shan mountain which just to let you know, can in no way can be compared to the mythical Huangshan.

Qiyunshan stands at only five hundred and eighty meters and is an easy climb and one can easily spent an entire afternoon walking its pathways. The climb begins at a small village where you will not be able to stop yourself from taking more than enough photos of and from the ancient stone bridge that takes you across the river. Once across turn right and say many happy hello's to the local villagers in return for your passing through their village and then begin your journey up the mountain. The climb took just over half an hour and its not until you reach the top that you have to pay your 75 Yuan entrance fee.

I have no idea how much the cable car is as I walked both up and down.

The mountain, long venerated by Taoists, the reddish sandstone rock provides a mountain home to the temples and monks who tend to the, while mountain trails lead people such as you and I through some stupendous scenery (LP).

At the top I was surprised at what I actually found as I thought it would simply be a small mountain climb with a temple to visit and then back down ...
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U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin has won a $32.9 million contract modification for logistics support to the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) F-16 Peace Phoenix Rising program, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced on January 14.

“This modification provides for contractor logistics support, repair and return and diminishing manufacturing source management services for Taiwan F-16s Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar,” the DoD stated. “Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas; and Taiwan, and is expected to be complete by December 31, 2025.”

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Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia (martial arts and chivalry) genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown numbers of bootleg copies).


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00:01:07 1 Strategic situation
00:02:26 2 Chinese plan
00:03:30 3 Offensive Plan against North China Front Army
00:09:28 3.1 Course of the offensive in North China
00:09:57 3.1.1 2nd War Area
00:14:34 3.1.2 1st War Area
00:16:56 3.1.3 8th War Area
00:20:32 3.1.4 Hopei-Chahar and Shangtung-Kwangtung War Area
00:22:07 3.2 Results of the north China offensive
00:25:45 4 Central China offensive plan
00:35:19 4.1 Course of the offensive in central China
00:35:31 4.1.1 3rd War Area
00:40:09 4.1.2 9th War Area
00:46:02 4.1.3 5th War Area
00:58:58 4.2 Results of the central China offensive
01:03:35 5 South China offensive plan
01:04:33 5.1 Chinese winter offensive in Kwangtung
01:08:39 6 Conclusion



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The 1939–40 Winter Offensive was one of the major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in which Chinese forces launched their first major counter-offensive on multiple fronts. Although this offensive failed to achieve its original objectives, some studies have shown that it came as a heavy blow to the Japanese forces, as well as a massive shock to the Japanese military command, which did not expect the Chinese forces to be able to launch an offensive operation on such a large scale.By April 1940 the Japanese army had successfully fought the operation to a halt. However, a Japanese counteroffensive in the northern theater failed to seize Ningxia and was defeated in Suiyuan by Chinese Muslim forces.

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The 1939–40 Winter Offensive was one of the major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in which Chinese forces launched their first major counter-offensive on multiple fronts. Although this offensive failed to achieve its original objectives, some studies have shown that it came as a heavy blow to the Japanese forces, as well as a massive shock to the Japanese military command, which did not expect the Chinese forces to be able to launch an offensive operation on such a large scale.By April 1940 the Japanese army had successfully fought the operation to a halt. However, a Japanese counteroffensive in the northern theater failed to seize Ningxia and was defeated in Suiyuan by Chinese Muslim forces. Muslim cavalry under Gen. Ma Biao destroyed Japanese armies in Henan. Muslim Gen. Bai Chongxi defeated the Japanese in Guangxi.