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  Gaoyou Information
Gaoyou was founded in 223 BC, but recent archaeological finds at the Longqiuzhuang site in Gaoyou has found evidence of rice growing dating back 5,500-7,000 years.
The profound history and culture of Gaoyou fostered Qin Shaoyou, the well-known poet in the Song Dynasty, Wang Nianshun and Wang Yinzhi (father and son), the celebrated classics interpreters in the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yunzhu, the modern paleontologist and Wang Chenqi, the contemporary writer.
Gaoyou is relatively flat with an elevation of 2 to 3 meters.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Gaoyou   (311 words)

  
  Gaoyou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The profound history and culture of Gaoyou fostered Qin Shaoyou, the well-known poet in the Song Dynasty, Wang Nianshun and Wang Yinzhi (father and son), the celebrated classics interpreters in the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yunzhu, the modern paleontologist and Wang Chenqi, the contemporary writer.
The climate of Gaoyou belongs to the subtropical monsoon marine climate.
Gaoyou is relatively flat with an elevation of 2 to 3 meters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaoyou   (545 words)

  
 Business Invitation Bureau of GaoYou Municipal Government In China
Gaoyou City is situated in the Yangtze River Delta, i,e,in the North Side of the Opening Economic Development Zone along the Yangtze River, Jiangsu Province.
Gaoyou is one of the famous historic and cultural cities appraised by Jiangsu Provincial Government.
With its plentiful produces, the Gaoyou Lake of blue waves is the third large freshwater lake in Jiangsu and the sixth large freshwater lake in China.
www.gybi.net /index-e.htm   (1008 words)

  
 CCTV International
Gaoyou, also called known as Yucheng in ancient times, is a small city located in the central part of Jiangsu Province.
Gaoyou sits on the eastern shore of the Great Canal and the Gaoyou Lake, the sixth largest lake in China.
Abundant water resources make Gaoyou a land flowing with milk and honeyproductive land indeed, but this same water has, at times, led to too much water sometimes may also mean disaster.
www.cctv.com /program/rediscoveringchina/20060417/101048_1.shtml   (245 words)

  
 Gaoyou CWI and SWI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The description of the Gaoyou CWI that follows is how the institution appeared when I visited in early April 2005, when the Half the Sky Foundation was at the institution working on the first Provincial Foster Village Project and other Half the Sky programs.
The Jiangsu Gaoyou Children's Welfare Institute is located at No 40 Gaogongqiao Lu, which is on the western side of the city, a short walk from the Grand Canal and across the street from the Gaoyou Gymnasium.
The overall impression of the Gaoyou SWI is that it is a clean (for China), well run institution, with adequately sized staff of nannies caring for the children.
www.aboutgaoyou.com /site_pages/Gaoyou_CWI.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: China - China plagued by bird-flu coverups
Qiao Songju, a resident of Gaoyou county in Jiangsu province, attained a brief heroic reputation for informing authorities of a massive bird-flu outbreak in Anhui province last October.
One month later, Gaoyou police paid a midnight visit to Qiao's home and "invited" him to the station for a "chat", which turned out to be the prologue to detention.
On condition of anonymity, a Gaoyou police officer told ATol that they had to arrest Qiao because he was suspected of being involved in illegal production of vaccines for chicken.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/HF08Ad01.html   (1881 words)

  
 China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
Gaoyou is claimed however to have the only "minority commune" in China.
Founded in 223 BC as a city, Gaoyou has since ancient times been an important post on the imperial mail route along the Grand Canal between Beijing and Nanjing.
Besides agriculture, Gaoyou now boasts industries as diverse as silk reeling mills, chemical plants, electrical appliance manufacturers, and a brewery.
www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Jiangsu/Gaoyou.htm   (179 words)

  
 China : Gaoyou occupies major stake of world clothing market - Textile Fashion News Fibre2Fashion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gaoyou city of Jiangsu province has emerged as a major wholesale clothing market in China and therefore, the country has given the city a title of ‘Famous Clothing Market’.
The quantity of the sheldrakes, raw material for clothing, bred each year is about 5 million in Gaoyou city.
The output of clothing is over 30 million pieces each year in Gaoyou city, which is more than 30 percent of total output in world.
www.fibre2fashion.com /news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=18000   (201 words)

  
 Business Invitation Bureau of GaoYou Municipal Government In China
The Gaoyou Economic Development Zone is an export-oriented,multifunctional and modern provincial economic development zone approved by Jiangsu provincial government in November, l993.The zone is located in the north of Gaoyou city.
Thc Gaoyou Town Industrial Zone Is located in the city proper,bordering the west side of Huanchen road under construction.You can drive directly to the expressway along this road.
Gaoyou is one of the first famous historic and cultural cities in Jiangsu Province.
www.gybi.net /tzqy-e.htm   (719 words)

  
 english.eastday.com
On December 30, the city of Gaoyou in neighboring Jiangsu Province opened a museum to commemorate the victims of the 1931 flood which directly and indirectly killed 3.7 million Chinese.
Gaoyou was at the epicenter of the Huaihe River flood where, on August 26, 1931, ocean-size waves whipped up by a typhoon swept away the earthen levees along the Grand Canal.
With the archival material Harnsberger had preserved, the Gaoyou government was able to set down the historical record of the catastrophe.
english.eastday.com /eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai1782587.html   (1706 words)

  
 BTC Consultant Co., Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Gaoyou, there are about 3000 industrial enterprises, most of which belong to the following sectors: machinery, light industry, textile, mechanical industry, building materials and electronics.
In Gaoyou, there are plenty of rivers and lakes.
The Gaoyou's Speckled Duck is one of the three best duck strains in China.
www.btchk.com.hk /en/news/file_gy.htm   (251 words)

  
 Hometown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I grew up in another small town, Gaoyou with abundant cultural heritage and importance in Chinese history with the reputation of duck eggs, special dishes and beautiful scenes.
The meaning of Gaoyou in Chinese is "important place in post service", the name was assigned more than 2000 years ago in Qing dynasty.
Gaoyou was designed as a relay point among the network due to its geographic location with advantages to easily access adjacent areas and Great Cannel.
www.me.umn.edu /~zhongch/hometown.htm   (229 words)

  
 History's worst flood finally revealed
In late August, three generations of Harnsbergers, a Christian missionary family with roots in China stretching back to 1892, returned to Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, for the ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the great flood and levee breaks.
Gaoyou (200 kilometres northwest of Shanghai) is a small city, famous for Marco Polo's visit and for its history as the last remaining outpost of the Chinese postal system.
In 1931, Gaoyou endured the single worse levee breaks of the 20th century's worst flood.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /cndy/2006-10/03/content_701197.htm   (1280 words)

  
 Poststation in Gaoyou
Die Stadt Gaoyou unweit der idyllischen Stadt Yangzhou in der ostchinesischen Provinz Jiangsu ist unser Ziel heute.
Daher wurde in Gaoyou eine große Poststation errichtet.
Sie können einen Besuch in Gaoyou natürlich gerne auch mit anderen Städten in der Umgebung kombinieren ?
de.chinabroadcast.cn /21/2003/12/23/1@2974.htm   (723 words)

  
 About Gaoyou.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Steve Harnsburger recently returned from Gaoyou from a trip to research the massive floods of 1931.
Steve's grandfather worked in Gaoyou in '31 helping to repair the dikes, and he a very interesting story of how Charles Lindbergh came to photograph Gaoyou from the air.
I was in Gaoyou City with HTS in April '05 and am extremely impressed with the difference they are making.
www.aboutgaoyou.com   (723 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: CHINA: Bird flu whistle-blower detained, sparking fears of revenge
A Jiangsu farmer who blew the whistle on a bird flu outbreak in Anhui in October has been detained by police, raising concerns that he is being punished for speaking out.
"I was told by police in Gaoyou [in Jiangsu] that he is involved in two cases.
Qiao was questioned by Gaoyou police on October 26, two days after the outbreak was announced, and was asked how much the ministry had paid him and whether he knew the consequences would be serious.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-eastasia.asp?parentid=35082   (520 words)

  
 The Gaoyou Orphanage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gaoyou itself is a city of about 600,000 located at a spot on the Grand Canal where it widens into Gaoyou Lake.
The Gaoyou SWI is on a short residential street in the older part of the city, nestled in amongst several large apartment blocks.
I couldn't really tell, but would guess that these babies are just a small percentage of the total number of babies there (although our guide told us the Gaoyou SWI is one of the smaller orphanages in the country).
www.ericknelson.net /Family/GaoyouOrphanage.htm   (603 words)

  
 Museum a son's poem to dad's lifelong aspirations
A new museum in the city of Gaoyou in East China's Jiangsu Province, where the flooding took place, now shows a remarkable trove of photographs, documents and letters telling the story of that catastrophe.
The Harnsbergers were in China again in 2002, when Hutch was invited to speak at the Hospital of Mercy and Love in Huai'an, north of Taizhou on the Grand Canal, one of the places where missionaries first introduced China to Western medicine.
The Gaoyou Lake flood was always a family story which everyone had discounted until 2002 with the help of a Chinese friend Shu Xiaojuan they unearthed detailed project records and a large body of well preserved photos in the Nanjing archives.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /cndy/2006-10/03/content_701196.htm   (721 words)

  
 Gaoyou Ocean Foundry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Gaoyou Ocean Foundry was established in 1992, which is specialized in investment casting.
Our factory persistent objective is ¡°Quality is first, customers are god¡±, we welcome you to visit our factory, and honest cooperation with us, based on mutual benefit.
Gaoyou Ocean Foundry is specialized in investment casting, our factory has 3Ton cupola,computer automatic control medium frequency induction furnace, annealing furnace, shot blasting machine and computer rapid analyzer,etc.
www.gyyp-casting.com   (363 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Trying to Help Will Land You in Jail
On July 7, Qiao said in court, "The Gaoyou court judgment is unjust!" He also said that he would appeal to a higher court.
The Chinese Communist Party's Central TV selected him as the 2005 newsmaker of the year because he was the first person to report bird flu.
However, he was detained by the Gaoyou police in November and formally arrested in early December.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-7-13/43865.html   (455 words)

  
 Gaoyou History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Since our return, I have tried to learn something of our daughter’s heritage, and have found myself becoming more and more proud of the long history and great accomplishments of her people.
The first section of what was to become the Grand Canal was constructed in 486 BC through present day Gaoyou.
Among them are Qin Shaoyou, a well-known poet of the Song Dynasty; Wang Nian Sun and Wang Yin Zhi (father and son), celebrated classics interpreters during the Qing Dynasty; Sun Yunzhu, the modern paleontologist; and Wang Chenqi, the contemporary writer.
aboutgaoyou.com /history.htm   (926 words)

  
 Gaoyou’s Salted Duck Eggs Tagged with Anti-fake Labels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is the source from news release conference held on May 26 to promulgate national mandatory standard for Gaoyou’s salted duck eggs and to go pubic for the first batch of labeled products.
As Standard stipulated, during production, Gaoyou’s duck eggs should be drawn from eggs laid by Gaoyou’s ducks in origins through careful selection.
Authentic Gaoyou’s salted duck eggs are featured by fresh, fine, tender, red, arenose and oily, which contain abundant microelements such as zinc, germnium, selenium and calcium.
www.yangtse.com /gb/content/2003-05/27/content_27530.htm   (214 words)

  
 Gaoyou
The name “Gaoyou” means “high post” and refers to Gaoyou’s importance in the early Imperial postal system.
Located adjacent to the Grand Canal, the station made it possible for imperial special messengers not only to change horses, but also to use boats and ferries, which were always at their disposal.
If you adopted a child who was in a Gaoyou Half the Sky program, we are happy to send you whatever progress reports and photographs we may have in our files, but only after you've brought your child home.
halfthesky.org /work/sites/gaoyou.php   (682 words)

  
 Welcome to Longqiu Township,Gaoyou,Jiangsu,China
According to "the Toponym Record of Gaoyou County", under the name of "Tangdun", it is recorded that Li Yuan, the emperor of Wenzhu in the Tang Dynasty took refuge in this place.
Based on the features of unearthed cultural relics and ctiltural deposit, the archaeologists determined that this relic is a typical shell relic left by the NeoIithic primitives in the medium and late period.
Gaoyou Municipal Government proclaimed that the Tangwangdun relic is listed as one of the units of cultural relics under protection in Gaoyou City.
longqiu.net /lq002e.htm   (741 words)

  
 [Charles Day] A Brief History of Gaoyou City - AboutGaoyou - 珠湖 - zhuhu.net - 梦里水乡,古韵秦邮   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Several notable figures in Chinese culture and history are associated with Gaoyou.
Among them are Qin Shaoyou, a well-known poet of the Song Dynasty; Wang Nian Sun and Wang Yin Zhi (father and son), celebrated classics interpreters during the Qing Dynasty; Sun Yunzhu, the modern paleontologist; and Wang Chenqi, the contemporary writer.
I plan on visiting their residence in Gaoyou when i am there this fall.
www.zhuhu.net /redirect.php?tid=414&goto=lastpost   (1004 words)

  
 Opportunities: News of China-Related Educational, Cultural, and Charitable Projects -- CBR Sep-Oct 2005
In Gaoyou, six Grand Canal dikes burst on August 26, after three big summer storms and a typhoon, flooding 10,000 square miles of the Jiangsu plain 10-12 feet deep for six months.
The two men, with the support of the International Famine Relief Commission and an anonymous donor, oversaw the reconstruction of Gaoyou's six broken dikes on schedule, under budget, and in the face of constant threats and corruption from the local warlords.
The dike project records were recovered from the Nanjing Archives in 2004 and brought to the attention of the Gaoyou government, which has undertaken to stage this exhibit of this lost piece of Chinese history.
www.chinabusinessreview.com /public/0509/opportunities.html   (951 words)

  
 gaoyou 2003
Thomas, all adopted from China, made the trek to Gaoyou from
Gaoyou children have especially enjoy the art classrom, where
The Gaoyou Orphanage is a small facility, and the buildings are
hometown.aol.com /homelandmarket/gaoyou2003.html   (527 words)

  
 Gaoyou, Jiangsu Public Relations Firms - Publicity Firm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Here are the most recent Gaoyou, Jiangsu pr firm vendors that have requested a listing on Marketingtool.com.
You may have to select the Next Page link to access the entire list; look for it near the bottom of the page.
Click here to learn more about why a Marketingtool.com Gaoyou publicity firm featured listing is one of the best methods of advertising your business.
www.marketingtool.com /channel/pr/b.461.g.12015.html   (204 words)

  
 Gaoyou Huasheng Electronics CO.,LTD
Huasheng Electronics Limited Company (The factory of telecommunication Equipment of Gaoyou) lies in the middle of Jiangsu Province.
Gao You is located on the side of the Ancient Grand Canal and is connected with the freeway between Beijing and Shanghai.
Huasheng Electronics Limited Company will always stick to improving the quality of the products, sincere co-operation and prestige as cardinal principles, Serve all guests heart and soul, All guests both at home and abroad coming to hold trade talks with us and visiting our company are warmly welcome.
www.elechs.com /intro_en.htm   (218 words)

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