Friday, October 17, 2008

Zhejiang Lucheng

Zhejiang Lücheng F.C. is a Chinese club based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang playing in the the Chinese Super League .

The club was founded in 1998 and won the title in 2006, thus promoted to CSL.

History


*1999 Club formed, played in the Chinese Football Association Yi League
*2000 Lose to Tianjin Lifei in the finals of Yi League.
*2001 Bought the first team and the position in from .
*2002 Renamed to Zhejiang Lücheng
*2003 Renamed to Zhejiang Sanhua Lücheng
*2004 Renamed to Zhejiang Lücheng
*2006 Renamed to Zhejiang Bebei Lücheng

Honours



Current squad


''As of 8 September, 2008''

































Famous Players



* Feng Jizhi
* Bertin Tomou
* Adolfo Valencia
* Tony Menezes
* Mahmadu Alphajor Bah
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Yuhang District

Yuhang District is a of the Zhejiang province, China, under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou. It is located in the suburbs of Hangzhou. Population : 152,429. The primary languages spoken is .

Yellow Dragon Sports Center

Zhejiang Yellow Dragon Sports Center or Zhejiang Huanglong Sports Center is a sports complex also used for cultural events such as music concerts and celebrations, located in the center of the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, . ''Huanglong'' means "Yellow Dragon" in Chinese.

The center, built between 1997 and 2003, includes a football stadium with a running track, an indoor arena, outdoor track and field practice facility, a sports hotel, a press center, and other facilities for sports such as rhythmic gymnastics, tennis, diving and chess.

Yellow Dragon Stadium



Yellow Dragon Stadium or Huanglong Stadium is a the outdoor football stadium and the main feature of the Yellow Dragon Sports Center. The facility seats 51,000 people and was completed in 2000. It is used by the local football team and was one of the venues of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 held in September 2007, for group phase games and the Brazil-USA semifinal. It was referred to by FIFA as Hangzhou Dragon Stadium.

The structure is circular in shape and has a partial roof covering the seating sections that is supported by two dual suspension towers on opposing ends of the stadium.

Yellow Dragon Gymnasium


Yellow Dragon Gymnasium or Huanglong Gymnasium is an indoor arena seating 8,000 people, which was officially put into service on 21 September 2003. It was constructed at a cost of 160 million .
The arena can accommodate figure skating and ice hockey, as well as a variety of indoor sports. It is also used for music concerts.
It is adjacent to the stadium in the northeast direction. This was originally designed by Soviet Experts in 1950s and endorsed by Later Premier Zhou Eng Lai. When Zhou Eng Lai visit Hangzhou early 1970s, he repeated this plan to local officials.

Xixi National Wetland Park

Xixi National Wetland Park is a wetland park located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, .

Xihu District, Hangzhou

Xihu District is a district in Hangzhou, China, near West Lake.

It has an area of 263 square kilometers, and a population of 520,000. The postal code is 310013.

The district government is located on 1 Zheda Rd.

Xiaoshan District

Xiaoshan District , a district of the city of Hangzhou, located in Zhejiang province in China. Xiaoshan was formerly a city in its own right, but was absorbed in recent years by its much larger neighbor and made into an administrative district of Hangzhou.

Hangzhou's international airport, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, is located here. The area is also at the center of one of China's local real estate booms, as the demand for newer, more upscale housing by China's growing middle and upper classes has led to an explosion in construction of new high-rise residential towers and Western-style condominium developments in Xiaoshan. It is also the site of Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sports Centre.

Wu Man

Wu Man is a Chinese pipa and ruan player and composer. She is an exponent of the Pudong School of pipa playing.

She studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where her instructors included Lin Shicheng, Kuang Yuzhong, Chen Zemin, and Liu Dehai. She became the first recipient of a master's degree in pipa and won the first prize in the 1989 National Music Performance Competition.

Although educated in China, Wu came to the United States in 1990 at the age of 25. She lived in Boston for many years and now lives in San Diego, California with her husband and son.

Wu performs with Chinese traditional music groups but is also known for her interpretation of contemporary compositions, as well as her work in jazz and cross-cultural music. Many composers have composed new works for her.

Wu has performed and recorded with the Kronos Quartet, Henry Threadgill, Liu Sola, Martin Simpson, and Yo-Yo Ma's The Silk Road Ensemble. In 1999, she became the first Chinese musician to play at the White House. She played there, together with Yo-Yo Ma, in honor of Zhu Rongji, the of China. Also in 1999, Wu was chosen by Ma to receive the Glenn Gould Prize. The award consisted of a bronze statue of famous Canadian pianist Gould himself.

Discography


*1993 - ''Chinese Music for the Pipa''
*1995 - Zhou Long: ''Nature and Spirit''
*1996 - ''Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Music''
*2003 - ''Pipa from a Distance''
*2003 - ''Posture of Reality''
*2003 - Bright Sheng: ''Silent Temple''
*2004 - Lou Harrison: ''For Strings''
*2005 - ''Wu Man and Friends''
*2008 - Tan Dun: ''Pipa Concerto''

With Philip Glass


*2005 - ''Orion''

With Kronos Quartet


*1997 - ''Early Music''
*1997 - ''Ghost Opera''
*2008 - Terry Riley: ''The Cusp of Magic''

With Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle


*2005 - You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R. D. Burman's Bollywood

With Martin Simpson


*1997 - ''Music for the Motherless Child''

With Liu Sola


*1994 - ''Blues in the East''
*1997 - ''China Collage''
*2001 - ''Spring Snowfall''

With The Silk Road Ensemble


*2002 - ''Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet''
*2005 - ''Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon''
*2007 - ''New Impossibilities''

With Henry Threadgill


*1994 - ''Carry the Day''

Compilations


*1994 - ''World Music Sampler, Volume 2
*1997 - ''China: Spirit and Wisdom''
*1998 - ''China: Sounds of Our Stories''
*1998 - ''China - Time To Listen: The Best of China''
*2008 - ''Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago''

Interviews


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Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train

Shanghai-Hangzhou Maglev Train is a proposed line from Shanghai to Hangzhou, to be built by Germany's Transrapid consortium . The project start date is in 2010, and the target for completion is 2014.

Introduction


The high speed line will run between the two Chinese cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou. The total length will be 169.725 km , of which 64.485 km will be within the City of Shanghai and 105.24 km in the province of Zhejiang. Four stations are to be built: at the Expo 2010 site in east Shanghai; in south Shanghai; Jiaxing; and east Hangzhou. The proposed design speed is 450 km/h, which would allow the train to travel the 169.725 km total distance in just 27 minutes. Construction is scheduled to be completed in time for Expo 2010. The total budget of the project will be 35 billion yuan .

If built, the line will become the first inter-city Maglev rail line in commercial service in the world. The line is an extension of the only Maglev line in commercial service in China so far, the Shanghai Maglev Train at Pudong International Airport.

This project is planned to be in operation before the EXPO 2010 but as of July 2008, neither the connection line to Hongqiao Airport nor the main line to Hangzhou had started construction.

On August 18, 2008 Shanghai Daily reported, that the final decision has been made, and that construction of the whole project would start in 2010, and be finished in 2014.

Concerns


Media reports on 26 May 2007 said the Shanghai city government announced that the project had been suspended, citing "radiation concerns". The Shanghai government quickly denied those reports. An environmental assessment report released January 2 2008, for citizens to comment on until January 15, says the rail link will have minimal impact on the local environment.

In January and February 2008, hundreds of residents demonstrated in downtown Shanghai against the line being built close to their homes. The residents were reportedly concerned with potential health hazards, noise and loss of property value. The Shanghai scheme has a buffer zone around the track that will be 22.5 m wide, which compares unfavourably with German standards that require houses to be 300 m away from the line.

Representatives of the residents filed a formal request to demonstrate with the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, which was rejected.

Articles

Longjing, Hangzhou

Longjing , literally "Dragon Well", is a name applied to a number of locations and products from the southwestern region of the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, . Most notably, the name refers to the titular Dragon Well itself, as well as the area encompassing the and the longjing tea famously grown there.

The Dragon Well region consists of a number of villages, tea plantations, , parks, and a temple. The area is popular for tea drinking and buying as well as visiting the Eight Scenes of the Dragon Well .

List of museums in Hangzhou

This is a list of museums in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, .

* Museum
Chinese Seal Museum
China National Silk Museum
China National Tea Museum
Zhejiang Provincial Museum

List of hills in Hangzhou

This is a list of hills in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, . Some hills listed may be alternatively named or classified in either or as "peaks" and/or "mountains".



*Baoshi Hill , location of Baochu Pagoda
*Beigao Peak
*Chessboard Hill
*Daci Hill
*Dahua Hill
*Dingjia Hill
*Five-old Peak
*Flying Peak
*Geling Hill
*General Hill
*Hupao Back Hill , location of Dreaming of the Tiger Spring
*Jiuyao Hill
*Jinjia Hill
*Jiangtai Hill
*Lion Hill
*Lingfeng Hill
*Nangao Peak
*Nanping Hill , location of one of the Ten Scenes of West Lake, "Night Bell at Nanping Hill"
*Phoenix Hill
*Qinglong Hill
*Shouxintou
*Trunk Peak
*Tianma Hill
*Wuyun Hill

*Yuegui Peak
*Yuhuang Hill
*Ziyang Hill

Immaculate Conception Cathedral of Hangzhou

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic cathedral, located at 415 Road North not far from Wulin Square in downtown Hangzhou, China. Since it is the only Catholic church currently in service within the city of Hangzhou itself, it is also known simply as ''Tiānzhǔ Táng'' or "the Catholic church".

History


Beginnings


Li Zhizao was a Ming Dynasty official-scholar and Catholic from Hangzhou working in Beijing, who had been converted and baptized by Matteo Ricci. In 1611, when he received news of his father's death, he hurried back to Hangzhou and on the way brought with him two Jesuit priests from Nanjing, Lazaro Cattaneo and Nicolas Trigault. They took care of Li Zhizao's father's funeral and on May the 8th at the Li family's residence held the first ever in Hangzhou. One of the new converts in Hangzhou was a wealthy Imperial Inspector named Yang Tingyun . He and his entire family were originally Buddhist, but upon his conversion he went so far as to turn his home's Buddhist altar into a chapel. Together, Li Zhizao, Yang Tingyun and Xu Guangqi are known as the "Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism" . Later in 1616, during a period of persecution against Christians in Nanjing, many refugees fled to Hangzhou where they were at first housed in the homes of Li Zhizao and Yang Tingyun. It was soon realized that a better solution would be required, and in 1627 Yang Tingyun bought a piece of land near Wulin Gate on Guan Road and had Hangzhou's first church built there, slightly west of where today's church lies. It was soon followed the next year by another church constructed near Qiantang Gate . None of these two churches or the gates and city walls they once stood by remain today however.

The Cathedral


The current cathedral in Hangzhou, dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, was originally built in 1661 by the Jesuit Martino Martini, and is still one of the oldest churches in China. Its original Romanesque form was designed with three naves, and two rows of columns separating them. The two side altars venerated statues of St. Peter and while the central altar was for the worship of Christ. At the time of its completion it had been lavishly decorated and was said by many to be the most beautiful church in China. Of note were also the large frescoes painted all over the church, that as the Jesuit Charles Le Gobien notes in his "Histoire de l'édit de l'empereur de la Chine", were based on standard Western imagery , but were painted by Chinese artists in the Chinese brush style.

In 1691, during the reign of the Qing emperor Kangxi, the governor of Zhejiang Province, Zhāng Pénghé banned Catholicism, took control of the cathedral and ordered all books contained within to be burned. The following year, under pressure from the Italian Jesuit Prosper Intorcetta, the emperor lifted the ban and ordered the Hangzhou cathedral to be fully restored. Nevertheless, the church was severely damaged later that same year in a fire and remained unrepaired for many years until 1699, when the Kangxi emperor himself, who was on a tour of southern China, passed by the church. He ordered one of his ministers to go in and inspect the place, after which he decided to grant the church 200 silver to complete the repairs. He also had the two characters "敕建" inscribed upon the church gate.

In 1730, the emperor Yongzheng again forbade the practice of Catholicism, and the church edifice was subsequently converted into a Taoist temple by the name of Tiānhòu Gōng , but only after the emperor had chiseled his father Kangxi's "敕建" inscription off the gateway. Later, in 1848, it came into the possession of a group of English, Dutch, and French Lazarists, whereupon it resumed operations as a Catholic church.

During the Cultural Revolution the cathedral was put to other uses for a period of about 12 years. The main church hall was divided into 10 or more smaller cells for imprisoning criminals. The other church buildings were also divided up as residences. Finally in 1982 the cathedral reopened, and on December 12th of that year, Mass was once again celebrated. By 1986 the all the families that had moved in during the Cultural Revolution were relocated off of the property. The cathedral is now protected as a Municipal Historic Site.

Mass


Chinese masses are held every Sunday morning. There is an English mass held on Saturday evenings. The church has two choirs which practice regularly, and also holds Bible studies and classes for catechumens.



Tomb of Martino Martini



Hangzhou is also home to the gravesite of Martino Martini. After the cathedral had just barely been completed, the renowned cartographer, historian, and missionary died suddenly of cholera in June of 1661, and was buried in the Dafangjing Jesuit Cemetery on the north side of Beigao Feng . His remains were found to be undecayed as late as 20 years after his death, as attested by both Belgian Jesuit Philippe Couplet and Prosper Intorcetta, and they therefore became the object of great veneration. During the Cultural Revolution the site was completely destroyed, but was fully restored in 1985, although by that time it was no longer known which bones exactly had belonged to Martino Martini. The cemetery is now protected as a Provincial Historic Site.

The rectangular memorial crypt faces west and is preceded by a Chinese style "shendao" walkway and "" gateway on which is inscribed in Chinese the line from the Apostles' Creed, "I believe in the resurrection of the body" . It is located right next to the Xihu Beer Factory on Xixi Road and can be entered by request.




Sisters of Charity Hospital


In the 1920's Hangzhou was also the object of some French missionary activity when a nun named Sister Hacard from the Sisters of Charity began to build a hospital compound on Hangzhou's Daomao Road . It was founded in 1922 and gradually added to until 1928. The site also included a chapel which, with the one exception of a Marian statue it once contained, survived the Cultural Revolution remarkably intact, stained-glass windows and all. Sr. Hacard's hospital is now part of the Hangzhou City Red Cross Hospital that can be found enclosed by Daomao Road, Fengqi Road , and East Huancheng Road . While the hospital buildings are still in use as such, the chapel has not been used for religious purposes since before the Cultural Revolution and instead is now used by the hospital as a hall for giving presentations. A statue of Sr. Hacard has since been errected in the middle of a nearby garden and the chapel, being the only Gothic structure in all of Hangzhou, is today protected as a Provincial Historic Site.

Convent of the Sacred Heart


The Catholic Church in Hangzhou also includes a nuns' convent dedicated to the Sacred Heart located in an old Republic of China-era building on the slopes of Mt. Wu not far from Wushan Square .

Hangzhou Zoo

Hangzhou Zoo is a zoo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, .

Hangzhou Railway Station

Hangzhou Railway Station is located in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. It is affiliated to Shanghai Railway Bureau, and is also the terminal of Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway. The station is ranked first-class.

History




The station was built in 1906 as a stop along Jiang-Shu railway, and then was called "Qing Tai Men Station". It was openned on 23 August 1907 as the railway was put into use. Because the station was hundreds of meters away from Hangzhou City at that time, the residents inside the city felt very inconvenient. Thus, Ma Yifu, a scholar returning from America, suggested the station move into the city. The building of the in-town station started in 1909 and completed in 1910. In 1937, Sino-Japanese War began. The station were bombarded twice in October by Japanese, and Hangzhou was occupied on 24 December. During Japanese occupation in Hangzhou, the station was rebuilt from 26 March 1941 to 21 March 1942, and its appearance resembled the style in Japan's Nara period.

As the passenger load continuously grew, the station's capacity could hardly cope with the future demands. Therefore, the old station was pulled down in 1997, and the new station was erected in 1999, and put into use on 28 December.

Hangzhou Metro

Hangzhou Metro is a system currently under construction to serve the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang and its suburbs. The construction commenced in March 2006, with a targeted first line opening date of December 28, 2011.

When opened, Hangzhou will be the tenth city in the People's Republic of China to have a rapid transit system in place. The first line, Line 1 will be 48 kilometers long, with 30 stations. Line 1 will cost 22.08 billion . Line 1 links Xiaoshan Xiang Lake, crosses the Jiantang River and ends in Xiasha and Linpin districts which links the city area to the suburban area of the city. A total of 8 lines with a length of 278 km are planned.

History


The planning for a metro system in the city started in the 1990s and was about to start construction works in September 2003, but the State Council suspended construction works due to increasing costs. The state council approved the planning of a rapid transit system on 6 June 2005. will build and operate the metro system in the eastern Chinese city. The preliminary design for Line 1 was approved on 11 January 2007 by the Development and Reform Commission after four days of work by the experts. The 47.97 km line will have 41.36 km of underground lines, 6.14 km elevated, and 0.47 km at ground level.

Construction


Construction of the first phase of Hangzhou Metro Line 1 began on 28 March 2007 and subsequent phases started in June, August and October of the same year. The first phase includes six stations namely, Jiubao East, Binjiang, Wenzhe Road, and three underground stations in Qinjiang New City. Jiubao East Station is the biggest station along Line 1 and will be a hub for the future metro system and other forms of public transport. The funding of Line 1 will come from both the city government and the banks who will give 10.2 billion yuan and 5 billion yuan respectively. The first phase construction is estimated to be 45 billion yuan.

Hangzhou City Walls

The first defensive walls in the Hangzhou area can be traced back 5000 years to the Neolithic jade-carving . The Liangzhu people built earthen walls that served two purposes, to protect their settlements from invaders and to serve as to prevent flooding. Over the subsequent course of Chinese history, Hangzhou changed hands many times, and every ruler and every dynasty had its own contributions and modifications to the Hangzhou City Walls. While little remains of them today, the fact that Hangzhou was once a walled city is still evidenced by certain place names around town, especially the names of its ten gatehouses.

Sui Period


Hanghzou's first city walls were built during the in the 11th year of , corresponding to 591 AD. It's perimeter is recorded as being 36 and 90 paces long. It's eastern boundary would have been about where Zhonghe Road is today. The western wall ran along the eastern bank of , the West Lake. To the south the wall pressed up against Fenghuang Mountain and its northern limit was the Qiantang Gate , roughly where today's No. 6 Park is. Certain parts of modern day Hangzhou's downtown area would not have been included inside the Sui city walls, such as Mt. Wu being excluded by an indent in the wall and Wulin Road being too far north.

Hangzhou Botanical Garden

Hangzhou Botanical Garden is a large public botanical garden located in , Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.

Introduction


The garden was founded in 1956. It is located in Taoyuanling, , Hangzhou. It has an area of 248.46 acres. The soil belongs to the red soil and yellow soil, with pH value ranging from 4.9 to 6.5. It is affiliated to Hangzhou Gardens and Relics Management Bureau. It's also a main botanical study and research base for Zhejiang University.

Extra links

Gongshu District

Gongshu District is a of Hangzhou, China.

Euro Street, Hubin Road

The Euro Street, Hubin Road of Hangzhou has a Ferrari store, an Hermes homeware store and flagship stores of Hermes, Giorgio Armani , Ermenegildo Zegna, Dolce & Gabbana, , Alviero Martini, Corneliani, Omega SA, etc. Some stores are the first flagship of the brand in China.

Dreaming of the Tiger Spring

Dreaming of the Tiger Spring is a and scenic, as well as historic, location in southwestern Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, .

The water from the spring itself seeps out from quartzite and is regarded as the third best in China. The water is popular for brewing teas, such as the local specialty, Longjing tea.

Tiger spring is also the burial place of monk Jigong.

Chun'an County

Chun'an County is a county under charge of , Zhejiang Province of China. It has a land area of 4,452 square kilometers and a population of 450,000. The postal code is 311700, and the county seat is located on 18 North Xin'an Rd., Qiandaohu Town.

Administrative divisions


Chun'an consists of 12 towns, 18 townships, 8 districts, 5 resident districts and 889 administrative villages.

*Towns: Qiandaohu, Linqi, Weiping, Jiangjia, Fenkou, Shilin, Dashu, Tangcun, Zitong, Zhongzhou, Wenchang, Fengshuling.
*Townships: Lishang, Pingmen, Langchuan, Anyang, Wangbu, Guocun, Jinfeng, Yaoshan, Guangchang, Songcun, Jiuken, Yanjia, Baima, Zuokou, Wangzhai, Fuwen, Hengyan and Jieshou.

China National Highway 329

China National Highway 329 runs from Hangzhou to Shenjiamen in Zhejiang. It is 296 kilometres in length and runs east from Hangzhou, going through Shaoxing and Ningbo.

Binjiang District

Binjiang is a county-level district under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou city, in Zhejiang, a province of the People's Republic of China. The district's total area is 73 square meters, and its population is 120,000 people. The district's postal code is 310051. The district people's government is situated on Xixing Road.

Administrative regions



Binjiang district has jurisdiction over Xixing Road, Changhe Road, and Puyan Road.