
China Man
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What Will Happen If It Rains During The Opening?
China Man replied to China Man's topic in Beijing 2008 Summer Games
Umbrellas are probably unnecessary for spectators. They are sheltered by the steel frame of the stadium. -
Take The Subway When You Are In Beijing!
China Man replied to China Man's topic in Beijing 2008 Summer Games
It currently costs 2 to 6 rmb to take the subway. That's less than a dollar. -
From my blog! Beijing is building a new subway line to service the Olympic Park. There are altogether 4 stations with the 4 seasons as the theme for the line! The base color of the four stations will be red/back, yellow, blue and green respectively. The Olympic Subway Line is 4.398km long. Its theme is borrowed from the “rhythm of music”. Each station represents a fermata (rest) in a musical performance, while the tunnel between the stations represents a string of musical notes (the tunnel is decorated!). As the train moves through the four stations, the traveler will experience five differ
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How many Basic First Aid-ers are there in Beijing? The answer is around 225,000. This works out to be about 1.5 per 100 people in Beijing. The Beijing Multiplicity has been engaging the Red Cross to help build the first aid skills of Beijing citizens. They are aiming for 1 first aid trained person for every 50 people by 2008. The priority goes to the volunteers of the Beijing 2008 Games! These include drivers, police, parks, hotels and shops attendants! Is this a common practice?
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Well a Tibetian and Falungong member may be a consenting interviewee. Will they allow that? Actually, the new president of China is an interestng man. He knows how to use capitalism more than any of the previous leaders. Wonder what he has up his sleeves to counter all these. Perhaps, money again
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Yup, it's reported that it's completed already! Pardon me, but they are magnificent and really incredible that they completed the major infrastructure more than 1 year ahead. My blog has the news.
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Yeah! In fact, students get to buy the tickets at less than US$1 for the preliminaries.
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Beijing Demolishes "city Villages" To Beautify The City
China Man replied to China Man's topic in Beijing 2008 Summer Games
Most of them will become public areas such as parks. Others may be redeveloped as "proper" residential areas. -
Beijing Demolishes "city Villages" To Beautify The City
China Man replied to China Man's topic in Beijing 2008 Summer Games
Exactly! And because they are often not original residents of the city, they don't really have much rights. -
Beijing uses GPS to track down and demolish illegal construction (translated from 2008.sina.com.cn) In the beginning of 2006, Beijing city planned to demolish 4.5 million m2 of illegal houses and buildings. This operation is now completed. To date, 1.6 milion m2 of the cleared land has already been converted to public areas. A further 3 million m2 of illegal construction are planned for demolition in 2007. This is announced during an Urban Development Forum organized by the Beijing 2008 Environment Development Agency. According to the agency, the current development to transform the urban
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I've update some photos of the venues again. Take a look here.