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This 360 foot-tall building in the city of Guiyang, China, has a tank installed at its base, where four 185-kilowatt pumps lift the water to the top of the fall and create an artificial waterfall.
This 121-meter-tall building in the city of Guiyang, China, has a tank installed at its base, where four 185-kilowatt pumps lift the water to the top of the fall and create an artificial waterfall. via @Rainmaker1973
Only those who don’t know Chongqing well enough will call it a cyberpunk city. Beautiful city night views are not uncommon, and there are many cities that rely on inner harbors and mountains.
The best thing about Chongqing is its history. What dissatisfies me is that even some locals think it has no history. Although They have Qin Liangyu😶
Ba Qing was from Bajun (now Chongqing urban area). She was a wealthy businesswoman from the Qin Dynasty, helped Qinshihuang build the Great Wall and the Terracotta Warriors. Qinshihuang confiscated all weapons in the country, making him the only one with military force in the country. Ba Qing was an exception. She was allowed to have an army to protect her caravan. Her business gang had 10,000 employees and developed a pension system for employee.
When the Mongol Empire attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, the defenders of Diaoyu Fortress (now Hechuan, Chongqing) killed Mongke Khan. It divided the Mongol Empire internally and stopped its foreign campaigns. After Kublai Khan destroyed the Song Dynasty, the Mongols promised not to massacre the fortress, the defenders surrendered and committed collective suicide.
These fortresses held out for a third of a century, and the long war reduced the population of Sichuan (including Chongqing) from 1,2960,000 to 600,000. Four hundred years later there was another massacre of the same magnitude. This may be why we think we have no history.🤔
"Filling Sichuan with Hu-Guang people" was very important in shaping modern Sichuan. I always feel that I should find an opportunity to talk about this immigration movement.
I saw a map of cannibalism in China. It reflects the frequency of suffering in various regions of China.
(That is why I keep mentioning that Sichuan has experienced two genocides but still insists it is the most peaceful place in ancient China)
And this map shows that there are no cannibalism incidents in Guizhou and Taiwan. It is wrong. There was the Battle of Guiyang City in Guizhou. Guiyang City was besieged by ethnic minority rebels. Unlike the Siege of Suiyang, officials and literati committed suicide and gave their own meat to civilians. There was a fierce fight between the Han immigrants in Fujian and the Taiwanese indigenous, and the Taiwanese indigenous would chop off the heads of the immigrants. Immigrants will also kill the indigenous people to make a medicine called 番膏, which is used to treat diseases that "will be hunted by the indigenous".
“What makes you think that you won’t be on that late-night bus one day?” read a viral comment, which garnered more than 250,000 likes before it was censored.
“We’re all on the bus. We just haven’t crashed yet,” another comment said.
Chinese censors rushed to cover the outrage. Many state media postings about the accident have closed the comment section, and search results appeared to be filtered. A related hashtag attracted more than 450 million views as of Sunday evening, but only posts from official government and media accounts were shown.
Guizhou reported 712 infections for Saturday, accounting for 70% of new cases nationwide. Nine local officials in Guiyang have already been suspended this month for failing to implement Covid policies properly.
On Saturday, Guiyang officials vowed to “fight a decisive battle” to eliminate community transmission. In zero-Covid China, a solution commonly used by local authorities is to bus entire buildings or communities of residents out of the city to quarantine elsewhere.
In Guiyang, which was placed under a lockdown earlier this month, authorities prepared 20 buses and 40 drivers to transport close contacts of Covid cases to other cities, the state-run Guiyang Evening Paper reported. As of Saturday, more than 7,000 people had been transferred, and nearly 3,000 were waiting to be bused out.
According to government data, only two people have died of Covid in Guizhou, a province of 38 million people, since the beginning of the pandemic.
so that's two dead to covid, twenty seven and counting dead to zero covid, I guess.
Decades ago, Western political scientists began asking a question that has never been fully resolved but has also never seemed more urgent. They noted that since World War II, extremely few countries had joined the ranks of the globe’s truly wealthy nations and almost all that had were already democracies or were in the midst of political transitions that would lead to systems that gave citizens a choice in the selection of leaders. So, they wondered: Could China, the world’s largest country—and, since the Soviet Union’s demise, the most powerful and, in aggregate terms, richest authoritarian society—buck the trend?
If it failed to do so, China would be said, in the jargon of experts, to have succumbed to the middle-income trap: a theoretical snare awaiting countries that failed to liberalize their political systems no matter how successful they had appeared during an early phase of economic takeoff.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been mindful of this challenge and at times has even boasted about his country’s ability not only to break this mold of notional constraints but also to prove the superiority of his version of authoritarian rule. Now, no sooner than Xi has engineered changes in China’s leadership succession rules so that he can preside over his country for life, a crisis that may come to be seen as an ideal test of the middle-income trap theory is upon him.
Its proximate cause appears to have been an apartment block fire in the far western Chinese city of Urumqi that killed 10 people. It reportedly took firefighters more than three hours to put out the blaze, which local officials said was caused by a faulty power strip, causing many on social media to speculate that the city’s ongoing strict COVID-19 lockdown measures may have hampered the response and prevented residents from evacuating. Chinese authorities have denied this and even suggested that blame lay with the apartment dwellers for being slow to flee.
The shocking news of this incident has set off the most serious political protests in China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crisis, with Chinese people in a rapidly growing number of cities—including the place where Xi himself studied in Beijing, Tsinghua University—coming out in the streets by the thousands to hold up blank sheets of paper, symbolizing censorship, and braving arrest as they chant recently unimaginable slogans such as “Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!” and “Don’t want dictatorship, [we] want democracy!”
Yet as tempting as it will be for many, it is wrong to see this crisis as solely the result of a spark from Urumqi. This challenge to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the state has been building for some time. The country’s unusually strict and prolonged campaign to contain the COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of deep discontent for many months, leaving many Chinese people feeling disenchanted with Xi, who seems more obsessed with control than any leader since Mao Zedong.
After a previous incident in September involving the crash of a bus carrying people from the locked-down city of Guiyang to a quarantine camp, which killed 27 people, the number of messages I began receiving from friends in China that spoke of wanting to leave the country or mentioned stories of others who had already escaped skyrocketed. That may seem merely anecdotal, but what happened next was anything but.
On Oct. 13, on the eve of the Party Congress in Beijing where Xi effectively coronated himself—and amid high, citywide security—a man hung large protest banners on Sitong Bridge, which passes over a major central thoroughfare, denouncing not just the country’s zero-COVID policy but also Xi’s dictatorship, censorship, personality cult, and suppression of human rights. The banners read:
We don’t want nucleic acid testing, we want food to eat;
We don’t want lockdowns, we want freedom;
We don’t want lies, we want dignity;
We don’t want Cultural Revolution, we want reform;
We don’t want [dictatorial] leaders, we want elections;
We don’t want to be slaves, we want to be citizens.
In an echo of the famous Tank Man of Tiananmen, the man was arrested and reportedly has not been seen or heard from since. State censors made furious attempts to remove mention of the protest from webpages and social media, but the intensity of interest overwhelmed them.
The next highly unusual occurrence happened during the Party Congress itself, when Xi’s predecessor as CCP general secretary, Hu Jintao, was ushered off the main dais at a critical moment during the proceedings. Hu had just reached for a folder that is thought to have contained the final list of the members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the highest instance of power in the country after the general secretary. One theory is that Hu suspected that Xi had not respected commitments to allow people other than his closest personal allies to sit on the body, erasing past practices of relatively collective rule. Another leader prevented Hu from opening the folder, and then Xi gave the signal for him to be unceremoniously led out.
While it may be impossible to know exactly what transpired, many people in China responded with shock, as if they had finally realized how deep the country had descended into a new stage of despotism. Again, many friends in China wrote to me, asking what I had heard and writing that they could not afford to say anything, except to deplore the overall situation in the country.
Although the details of these recent events are unique, some of their contours bear strong resemblance to previous crises in the country. Take, for instance, the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. Although Deng Xiaoping, as paramount leader, eventually approved the murderous crackdown on the student and worker demonstrators who filled the square, he later said privately that it was “very unhealthy” for “the destiny of a country to be built on the prestige of one or two people.” Not since Mao has China been so dominated by a single figure as Xi.
Even worse, under Xi, at each hint of crisis, whether economic—as with the pandemic-induced slowdown or a real estate bubble—or now political, instead of the liberalizing reforms his country and its broad middle classes need and hope for, Xi has reflexively become even more sternly top-down and authoritarian in his response. This ominously echoes his famous comment about the end of Soviet rule under Mikhail Gorbachev in which Xi said the Soviet Union’s Communist rulers lost their nerve, meaning that they failed to rule without flinching and to crack down on opposition mercilessly when necessary.
No one knows what is in Xi’s mind, but he is surely aware of the example of Zhao Ziyang, his predecessor decades ago as CCP general secretary during the Tiananmen crisis (a position under Deng). Zhao, in that much simpler and poorer time, had warned that “reform includes reform of the economic system and reform of the political system. These two aspects affect one another. … If [political reform] lags too far behind, continuing with the reform of the economic system will be very difficult, and various social and political contradictions will ensue.”
Zhao had envisioned clear separations between the role and authority of the party and the government; much more independence for the country’s courts; an end to the purely rubber-stamp function of the country’s parliament; increased freedom of speech and of the press; and even a greater role for the country’s tiny, authorized alternative political parties. He and his allies argued that if the people were not granted freer expression, society would have no pressure valve, practically guaranteeing explosive crises in the future. Xi seems to have never thought well of any change that might reduce the CCP’s power, but it seems likely that even he knows that at some point China’s political system will have to adapt for the country to continue to modernize and escape the theoretical middle-income trap.
His problem, like that of so many leaders who concentrate immense power in their own hands, is that no moment ever quite looks like a good one to make serious, substantive change. The difference between Xi and Deng, who had previously long been considered the country’s most powerful ruler since Mao, is that Deng always took care to have high-profile politicians executing decisions and implementing policy in the foreground. Under Xi, who seems to utterly dominate every important committee and instance of power himself, there is no one but the great leader himself. When the Tiananmen crisis broke, Deng could blame Zhao—and did. Xi, however, has no meaningful deputy or surrogate and therefore has no one else to blame.
This places him in the teeth of an altogether different trap. If he orders his troops and police to execute a heavy-handed crackdown on a fed-up and networked citizenry, things could get bloody quickly, as with Tiananmen—with grave consequences not just for his relationship with his people but also for China’s place in the world. It is even possible that some of his commanders could refuse to execute his orders, as at least one principled general named Xu Qinxian did during Tiananmen.
On the other hand, if Xi abruptly changes strategy and puts on the garb of a supple moderate, people both within his system and without may decide that he is weak and vulnerable and become emboldened to mount bigger challenges to his authority.
One way or another, China is poised on an uncomfortable fulcrum right now, and it will have to choose a course.
Postcard from China
Wenchang Pavilion is located in the old east gate site in Guiyang city. It is a three-story pagoda-shaped building. Because the corners of the cabinet buildings are all even-numbered equal angles, the Wenchang Pavilion with nine corners has become a unique and ancient building that is as famous as the Jiaxiu Building. The building is simple and majestic.
Tuesday Take Me To…
Teen Midfielder's Hat Trick Powers Old Friend to Narrow Victory
<h2>Old Friend Defeats Hengxindeyuan in Local 7-a-Side Tournament</h2>
<p>On the evening of January 18th, a matchup was held as part of the 10th Charming Night 7-a-Side Football Tournament Division C. This local tournament is organized annually by Guizhou Sports Online and takes place at various parks and sporting venues around Guiyang city. The match in question was a makeup game from the third round of group play, hosted at Qianlingshan Sports Park with support from the Guiyang Olympic Sports Center and Guiyang Olympic Event Operations Center.</p>
<p>In the contest, Old Friend faced off against Hengxindeyuan. Through strong attacking play, Old Friend emerged victorious by a score of 6-3. Old Friend's star forward Wan Changyuan had an outstanding game, completing a hat trick of three goals. Meanwhile, Hengxindeyuan scorers Ban Qian and Old Friend's Zhang Longyin each bagged a pair of goals. In addition, Old Friend's Su Fanjun and Hengxindeyuan's Li Tao contributed a goal apiece to the final tally.</p>
<p>For his standout performance, Old Friend's jersey #4 Xiao Yan was named the Most Valuable Player of the match. The teen midfielder was a dynamic presence on the pitch, regularly beating defenders and creating scoring chances for his team.</p>
<h3>In Summary</h3>
<p>In this tight divisional matchup, Old Friend came out on top thanks to Wan Changyuan's hat trick and solid support from Zhang Longyin, Su Fanjun, and Xiao Yan. While Hengxindeyuan found the net multiple times as well, it was not enough to overcome Old Friend's potent attack. With the 6-3 result, Old Friend picks up an important victory as group play in the 10th Charming Night 7-a-Side Tournament continues.</p>
Xu Shi's Brace Powers Life Home Decor to Narrow Win Over Old Friends
<h2>Life Home Decor Wins Narrowly Against Old Friends Wansui</h2>
<p>On the evening of June 29th, the 11th Guizhou City 7-a-side Football League C League match between Life Home Decor and Old Friends Wansui was held at Linquan Football Park in Guiyang. The match was hosted by Guizhou Sports Online and organized by the Guiyang Olympic Sports Center and Guiyang Olympic Event Operation Center.</p>
<h3>Exciting Back-and-Forth Contest</h3>
<p>It was a close contest between the two teams. Life Home Decor opened the scoring when Xu Shi found the back of the net in the first half. However, Old Friends Wansui equalized shortly before halftime thanks to a goal from Fu Yu. With the score tied at 1-1 at the break, it looked like either team could win it.</p>
<p>The second half saw more end-to-end action. Xu Shi proved the difference maker again for Life Home Decor, netting the decisive goal midway through the half. Despite Old Friends Wansui's best efforts to equalize, they were unable to beat the stingy Life Home Decor defense. In the end, Life Home Decor emerged victoriously by a score of 2-1.</p>
<h3>Man of the Match: Xu Shi</h3>
<p>For his standout performance in which he scored two goals, Life Home Decor's #99 Xu Shi was selected as the best player of the match. Xu Shi helped spur his team to the close victory with his skilled playmaking and finishing ability. Both teams can be pleased with their efforts in an entertaining matchup!</p>
<p>That concludes our match report on the exciting 7-a-side league contest between Life Home Decor and Old Friends Wansui. Thanks for reading!</p>
Hengba Pharmaceuticals Defeats Rival Sushalon in Eight-Person Football Match
<p>On the evening of July 26, the 4th Charming Night of Olympic Sports Center in Guiyang, which was hosted by Guiyang Sports Online and guided by Guiyang Olympic Sports Center, concluded the 18th round and the 4th match (make-up match) of the Third Division of the Guiyang City Enterprise and Public Institution Eight-Person Football League co-organized by Guiyang Olympic Sports Event Operation Center. Sushalon AK2013 was defeated 0-2 by Hengba Pharmaceuticals.</p>
<p>Li Longfei of Hengba Pharmaceuticals scored the only goal of the whole match.</p>
<p>Pang Jiaquan of Sushalon AK2013 and Wang Wei of Hengba Pharmaceuticals were both given yellow cards as warnings.</p>
<p>Wang Wei No.2 of Hengba Pharmaceuticals was selected as the best player of the match.</p>
Hello, this is Guangning County! Please accept this new business card to attract investment!
Invest in Zhaoqing Published in Guangdong on 2023-11-02 21:29
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What to invest in Zhaoqing? What high-quality industries are there in Zhaoqing? What is the industrial base…
Starting from October 13th, we will launch the special column planning of "Zhaoqing Investment Business Card".
We will explain to you the "business card" information such as the industrial basic overview, industrial advantages, and attraction directions of each county (city, district) in Zhaoqing. Domestic and foreign merchants are welcome to come to Zhaoqing for negotiation, investment and business development.
Zhaoqing welcomes you
Fifth stop → Guangning County
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Introducing Guangning County’s industrial investment business card to you
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Where is Guangning County?
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Guangning is located in the Pearl River Delta
A hub connecting the southwest,
120 kilometers away from Guangzhou,
Foshan is 50 kilometers away and Shenzhen is 220 kilometers away.
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The Erguang Expressway and the Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway run through the territory. The Zhaoming Expressway from Guangning Binheng to Gaoyashui South Section is about to be opened to traffic. The Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway Passenger Dedicated Line from Guangning to Guangzhou North is being planned. It is an important link between Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the Pearl River Delta region. An important hinterland for industrial transfer, it is integrated into the one-hour transportation, economy, tourism and living circle of the Pearl River Delta.
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How is the industrial base of Guangning County?
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at present,
Provincial park supporting facilities in Guangning County
has basically reached
"Seven connections and one level" and "Five Ones" standards.
Jiangjizhu Industrial Demonstration Park
It has reached the construction standard of “six connections and one leveling”.
The living area, substation, sewage treatment and other supporting facilities are complete.
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The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's "vegetable basket" products include Zhaoqing distribution sub-center, camellia oleifera, meat pigeons, and pig provincial modern agricultural industrial parks, supported by product warehousing (processing) distribution areas, cold chain logistics, e-commerce and exhibition and trade areas. , operation and management information area, industrial cooperation and exchange area, comprehensive business office area, and one-stop commercial service area for inspection, quarantine, customs declaration, and taxation.
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What are the industrial advantages of Guangning County?
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Quang Ninh ranks second in the country,
The province’s number one bamboo resource advantage,
The bamboo forest area is about 1.08 million acres.
It is one of the “Top Ten Bamboo Hometowns in China”.
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Guangning Ten Miles Bamboo Corridor. Picture source released by Guangning
Advantages of high-quality green food resources,
A city with vegetables, fruits,
46 projects including tea, southern medicine, etc.
And with a vegetable basket distribution center,
Three major industrial parks: camellia oleifera, live pigs, and meat pigeons.
Build livestock and poultry breeding and slaughtering
and meat processing and other entire industrial chains.
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High-quality business environment advantages,
It is a hot spot for investment and business development.
At present, industries such as bamboo industry, metal processing, equipment manufacturing, new materials (including plastic recycling industry), biotechnology, and light industry have begun to take shape, forming a good pattern of multi-point blooming and promoting the development of industrial agglomeration.
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Rendering of the traditional bamboo processing demonstration base in Guangning County. Picture source released by Guangning
What park carriers are there in Guangning County?
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Forestry, pulp and paper integrated industrial park
The development is positioned as the paper industry,
A provincial papermaking industry base has been formed.
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High-tech Industrial Park
Development positioning as metal processing,
New materials, equipment manufacturing industry, etc.
And the scale of industrial agglomeration has begun to take shape;
Plans are underway to expand the park to approximately 2,700 acres
As a carrier of industrial transfer.
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Guangning County High-tech Industrial Park (Phase II). Picture source released by Guangning
Jiangji Industrial Park
Development is positioned as bamboo deep (finishing) processing
and new materials industry.
There are currently about 300 acres of cultivated land.
It is planned to introduce bamboo deep (finishing) processing industry.
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Photo by Liao Wenyi
Renewable Resources Industrial Park
The development is positioned as plastic deep processing,
Circular economy industries such as solid waste treatment,
And the scale of plastic recycling industry agglomeration has begun to take shape;
The second phase is planning to build about 2,000 acres.
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Guanbu High-tech Industrial Park
It is planned to build about 500 acres.
Undertake biotechnology, electronic information,
Advanced equipment manufacturing and other industries.
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Provincial Modern Agricultural Industrial Park
The construction of factory buildings and other supporting facilities has been completed.
Can directly carry the project to implementation,
Form a cluster development of food processing industry.
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Guangning County’s investment direction
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Focusing on the bamboo deep (finishing) processing industry,
Advanced equipment manufacturing, biotechnology, new materials,
Conduct targeted investment promotion in food processing (prepared dishes) and other fields,
at the same time,
Create two industrial clusters of bamboo industry and plastic recycling industry.
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See here,
Have you ever been attracted to Guangning County?
The warm and hospitable Zhaoqing,
Welcome to invest and start business in Guangning County!
Guiyang is the capital city of Guizhou province in southwestern China. Known for its pleasant climate, natural beauty, and vibrant cultural scene, Guiyang offers a range of attractions and experiences for visitors.
Jiaxiu Tower: Located on Nanming River, Jiaxiu Tower is a historic landmark and one of Guiyang’s iconic attractions. Built during the Ming Dynasty, the three-story tower features traditional architectural design and offers panoramic views of the city from its top level.
Green roofs and living walls are a magnificent way to incorporate nature into the urban landscape. As cities grow, these sustainable features have become an important aspect of the fight against climate change. With their breathtaking beauty and numerous benefits, it’s no wonder why green roofs and living walls are becoming more popular.
Here are some of the most famous green roofs and living walls around the world.
High Line in New York City
Garden at 120
In Chicago, the Garden at 120 is a stunning green roof that covers an entire city block. With over 100,000 plants, including trees, shrubs, and grasses, it’s a hub for outdoor events and gatherings.
Sky Garden
Green Wall of China
In Guiyang, China, the Green Wall of China is the longest-living wall in the world. It covers over 4,000 square meters and is made up of a variety of plants, including flowers, grasses, and shrubs.
Green Wall at the Hotel de Ville
Finally, the Green Wall at the Hotel de Ville in Paris is a magnificent living wall that covers the entire facade of the city hall. With over 15,000 plants, including flowers, grasses, and shrubs, it adds a stunning element to the iconic building.
Conclusion
These different projects highlight innovative and sustainable features. They bring greenery and nature into urban environments.
Green roofs and living walls have numerous environmental and health benefits, such as reducing air pollution, conserving energy, and providing habitat for wildlife. These famous examples of green roofs and living walls around the world showcase the creativity and diversity possible with these features. They serve not only as an inspiration for future projects but also as a testament to the importance of incorporating sustainable design into the built environment.
As cities continue to grow and urbanize, green roofs and living walls have the potential to play a crucial role in creating healthier and more livable spaces for communities. They are a reminder of the importance of thinking creatively about sustainable landscape design and the positive impact it can have on the environment and human health. These features have the power to create a greener, more sustainable future for all of us.
Article originally from:
Green Roofs and Living Walls Around the World - IOTA Designer Planters (iotagarden.com.au)