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Quanzhou
City
Quanzhou
Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, China. Its is Fujian's largest metropolitan region, with an area of 11,245 square kilometers and, as of the 2010 census, a population of 8,128,530. Its built-up area is home to 6,107,475 inhabitants, encompassing the Licheng, Fengze, and Luojiang urban districts; Jinjiang, Nan'an, and Shishi cities; Hui'an County; and the Quanzhou District for Taiwanese Investment. Quanzhou was China's 12th-largest extended metropolitan area in 2010.
Population: 8.13 million (2010)
Area: 4,332 sq miles (11,219 km²)
Colleges and universities: Huaqiao University · Quanzhou Normal University · Yang-En University
Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, China. Its is Fujian's largest metropolitan region, with an area of 11,245 square kilometers (4,342 sq mi) and, as of the 2010 census, a population of 8,128,530. Its built-up area is home to 6,107,475 inhabitants, encompassing the Licheng, Fengze, and Luojiang urban districts; Jinjiang, Nan'an, and Shishi cities; Hui'an County; and the Quanzhou District for Taiwanese Investment. Quanzhou was China's 12th-largest extended metropolitan area in 2010.
Quanzhou was China's major port for foreign traders, who knew it as Zaiton, during the 11th through 14th centuries. It was visited by both Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta; both travelers praised it as one of the most prosperous and glorious cities in the world. It was the naval base from which the Mongol attacks on Japan and Java were primarily launched and a cosmopolitan center with Buddhist and Hindu temples, Islamic mosques, and Christian churches, including a Catholic cathedral and Franciscan monasteries. A failed revolt prompted a massacre of the city's foreign communities in 1357. Economic dislocations—including piracy and an imperial overreaction to it during the Ming and Qing—reduced its prosperity, with Japanese trade shifting to Ningbo and Zhapu and other foreign trade restricted to Guangzhou. Quanzhou became an opium-smuggling center in the 19th century but the siltation of its harbor long reduced its capacity for trade by larger ships.
Quanzhou
City in China
Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, China. Wikipedia
Weather: 80°F (27°C), Wind S at 13 mph (21 km/h), 67% Humidity
Local time: Sunday 4:53 PM
Province: Fujian
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Earthquake tourism helps survivors
(4 May 2009)
Beichuan, Sichuan - 10 February 2009
1. Wide of the ruins of Beichuan city
2. Close up of a building half-buried by the mud
3. Close up of a second building half-buried
4. Wide of a group of tourists
5. Close up of tourist guide as he explains the landscape with a book
6. Wide of a souvenir vendor talking to some tourists
7. Mid of two visitors looking at the view of Beichuan from a hill
8. Zoom out of building to the surroundings buried by mud and stones
9. Wide of a group of visitors taking pictures from the top of a hill
10. Mid of a tourist taking a picture
11. Mid of a family posing for a picture with Beichuan in the background
12. Close up of a table full of souvenir DVDs at a stall
13. Mid of Wang Wei, a tourist from Deyang, burning incense over a memorial plaque
14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wang Wei, Tourist from Deyang:
I want to see how the recovering is going on and how people feel here. Even me, at the time of the earthquake, I was deeply affected for about 15 days. This disaster made me feel so hopeless. Nature makes us feel so small.
15. Close up of some paper money being burnt
16. Close up of flowers hung on the fence that encloses Beichuan.
17. Close up of a picture of China's Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, among the souvenirs on a stall
18. Mid of a visitor looking at one of the photo albums on sale
19. Close up of photo albums and postcards
Luojiang, Sichuan - 11 February 2009
20. Wide of a bulldozer
21. Wide of a construction worker and a wheelbarrow full of bricks
22. Zoom out of construction workers to surrounding area
Jina Qiang Village, Sichuan - 10 February 2009
23. Wide of Qiang minority's community, the first village completely rebuilt
24. Mid of a few houses in Jina Qiang village
25. Close up of a sign welcoming visitors to the new Jina Qiang village
26. Pan from Wang Chengbin to place where his house used to stand
27. Wide of Wang Chengbin's new house
28. Close up of corn left to dry on the balcony of the house
29. SOUNDBITE: (Sichuanese) Wang Chengbin, Jina Qiang Community Resident:
In the future, we will basically rely on selling some agricultural specialties, such as home-made pickled vegetables, chicken and fern. On the other hand, we could get some income by carrying out tourism.
Beichuan, Sichuan - 10 February 2009
30. Wide of a collapsed building in the road to Beichuan
31. Mid of the collapsed building
32. Wide of the temporary houses for survivors of the earthquake
33. Mid of a middle-aged man walking through the community
34. Wide two women doing the laundry
35. Close up of babies' clothes hanging out to dry
36. Wide of a woman playing with her daughter
Luojiang, Sichuan - 11 February 2009
37. Mid of three students reciting lines in a temporary classroom
38. Close up of students
Beichuan, Sichuan - 10 February 2009
39. Mid of two men kneeling down in front of a memorial for the victims
40. Close up of a victim's father crying
41. Wide of the memorial plaque with two mourners with ruins of the school in the back
42. Pan up of two mourners to school ruins
43. Wide of the remains of Beichuan Middle School
44. Mid of the remains of Beichuan Middle School
45. Mid of a tourist looking at the remains of the school
46. Wide of Wang Jing offering souvenirs to tourists
47. Close up of the products sold at Wang Jing's stall
48. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wang Jing, Beichuan Resident:
My younger cousins died during the earthquake here in the Beichuan Middle School. By bringing tourists, it not only helps me financially, my economical situation, but I also will have more people to mourn for them.
Chengdu, Sichuan - 12 February 2009
49. Pan down of sign of the Sichuan Ping An Tourism Co. to the window of the travel agency
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