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  Tianshui   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Tianshui is the second largest city in Gansu and lies in the south of the province on the Wei River.
Tianshui was on the route to the west and, because of this, still retains a large number of historic sites, mostly well preserved and all close enough to be visited at the weekend.
Tianshui is five hours south of Jingning but a new road across the hills is being surfaced soon and this should cut down the travelling time from the nearest volunteers.
www.projecttrust.org.uk /projects/china/tianshui.htm   (469 words)

  
 Last Page: A Gansu Homecoming -- CBR Jul-Aug 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
I consoled myself with the thought that I was headed to the much less crowded Tianshui, Gansu, where I taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer from 2000 to 2002.
Like the young students I taught, Tianshui seems to be a young city growing into a confident adult and finding its place in the world.
When I lived in Tianshui, there were only a couple traffic lights, and they were not necessarily at the busiest intersections.
www.chinabusinessreview.com /public/0407/last_page.html   (935 words)

  
 China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
Tianshui City, the second largest city in Gansu Province, lies in the southeastern part of the province.
Tianshui City, with beautiful landscape, distinguished people, ancient cultural relics, and famous historical sites, is rich in tourist resources.
Tianshui is moving ahead to be a center city in eastern Gansu Province that is mainly employed in tourist and trading industry and processing industry.
www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Gansu/Tianshui.htm   (296 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Mountain caves in central China preserve ancient Buddha statues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
TIANSHUI, China — After an hour's drive past lush green corn fields outside this city in central China, they begin to peek over the horizon — three huge Buddha statues carved into a pink sandstone cliff.
Tianshui, meaning celestial water, was a main stop on the ancient Silk Road that started in the old Chinese capital of Xian, 180 miles to the east.
But then they would miss the historic sites, including Tianshui, Lanzhou, Wuwei and Zhangyi, along the road that Chinese traders used to transport silk and other goods to the West until they shifted to sea lanes in the 15th century.
www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2002/2002-11-18-buddha.htm   (648 words)

  
 BBC - Gloucestershire Features - Rebecca's big adventure
She'll be taking a gap year from her studies to work with pupils at the Tianshui Vocational and Technical School, which is in one of the poorer parts of China.
She'll be working in Tianshui Vocational and Technical School, which is in the Gansu province.
Tianshui, where Rebecca will be working, is the second largest city in Gansu and lies in the south of the province on the Wei River.
www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/focus/2004/05/rebecca_crowther.shtml   (1313 words)

  
 Abandon Ship! :: China by Bike :: April -- October '98
The man replies, "Ni qu Tianshui ma," at once correcting my pronunciation and making sure he understands my assertion: "you are going to Tianshui?".
He points to the side-tracked train, speaking chinese but the message is clear enough, "Get on that one, it's going to Tianshui." I heft a pair of imaginary bags, tilt my head back towards town saying, "Binguan." "Go get them, you have time," he says.
What we'll find for certain is 250km of mountainous terrain along the same fat red line that has been nothing more than dirt road for the last 30 odd kilometers, and may extend as dirt for who knows how much further.
www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejfour/031abndn.htm   (2249 words)

  
 Tongbiquan Wushu - Master Huang Baoshan
Tianshui, or the 'town of the 'Water from the sky' was very important in the history of the Chinese culture and civilisation.
Tianshui was also a way for the Buddhist monks to come in China trough the silk road in the oasis of Gansu.
I visited master Huang in the summer 1993, at the age of nineteen in his town of Tianshui from the far provinceof Gansu, along the silk road.
www.sinoptic.ch /wushu/doc/huang_baoshan.htm   (2069 words)

  
 China
Tianshui is set in a valley, its surrounding hills and bridges connecting various parts of the
Tianshui, I only go when I am in my home town”.
Zhangjiachuan County is an autonomous Muslim region near Tianshui.
www.asimrizki.com /china.html   (3412 words)

  
 Ruth Lor Malloy Author- Updates to China Travel Guide
It was on Number 107 train soft class seat from Xi'an to Tianshui and cost Y115, leaving at 5:08pm and arriving at 11:17pm.
2100 year old Tianshui is a city of 400,000 urban, and 3.25 million total, and a civil airport was expected to open the end of 1999 with flights from Lanzhou, Dunhuang and Xi'an.
Tianshui also has the Fuxi Temple 20 km west of town on Fuxi Road, Xiguan.
www.china-travel-guide.com /updates5.htm   (8042 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
The Working Group believes that it is in a position to render an opinion on the facts and circumstances of the case, in the context of the allegations made and the response of the Government thereto.
He is detained in the Luergou Detention Centre, Tianshui city, Gansu province, and is reportedly in critical condition.
Chen Gang, male, aged 25, resident of Tianshui city, Gansu province, was ordered by the Tianshui city labour rehabilitation committee in February 2000, to serve one year’s re-education through labour for repeatedly disturbing the peace.
heiwww.unige.ch /humanrts/wgad/7-2003.html   (3046 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net
In December 2000, she went to Tiananmen Square and shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" She was sent back to Tianshui City and sentenced to two years of forced labor without any trial, to be served at the Anning District Labor Camp in Lanzhou City.
Liu Wenyu refused to cooperate with the labor camp personnel as she was not a criminal.
We were all arrested and held at an underground hotel in Tianshui City's Liaison Office in Beijing.
clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2004/5/6/47778p.html   (1771 words)

  
 CNTO - China National Tourist Office
In east Gansu, known as the "Small South of the Yangtze River," Tianshui is one of the major cities that offer itineraries for travel eastward.
In autumn it is subjected to continual, fine rain, which creates the wonderful sight of "Maijishan Mountain shrouded by misty rain." It is rated as the best of the eight beautiful scenes in Tianshui.
Wuwei, which was called Liangzhou in the past, is located at the eastern edge of the Hexi Corridor and borders Qilian Mountain to the southwest and Tenggeli Desert in the north.
www.cnto.org /silkroad-gansu.asp   (1755 words)

  
 Tianshui Hotel Information - Hotels in Tianshui China - China Hotel Reservation
Tianshui is a strange city in that it is divided into two parts, separated by about 17km.
On arrival here you are dropped off either by train in Beidao, the western section, or by bus in Qincheng, the main area of the city situated in the east.
More foreign tourist orientated, the Tianshui Hotel (Tianshui binguan, 0938-821-2611) is a little further away, at 5 Yinbing lu.
www.muztagh.com /china-hotel/tianshui.htm   (440 words)

  
 FR Doc 02-28924
The final weighted-average dumping margins for these firms are listed below in the section entitled ``Final Results of the Review.'' Based on these final results of review, we will instruct the Customs Service to assess antidumping duties based on the difference between the export price and normal value on all appropriate entries.
Tianshui Hailin Import and Export Corporation and Hailin Bearing Factory, Wanxiang Group Corporation, and Zhejiang Machinery Import & Export Corp. have requested revocation of the antidumping duty order in part.
Accordingly, we are revoking the order with respect to the subject merchandise produced and exported by Tianshui Hailin Import and Export Corporation and Hailin Bearing Factory.
a257.g.akamaitech.net /7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2002/02-28924.htm   (1935 words)

  
 PLAAF 6th Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1998 the units merged and the 6th Division is now headquartered at Yinchuan.
The air station at Tianshui was kept but the one at Lintao, the former HQ for the 6th Division, is longer being used.
The J-6 photo on the left confirms the J-6 regiment is still active.
www.china-military.org /units/lanzhou/6div.htm   (194 words)

  
 GLOBALink - 30 December2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Tianshui Cigarette Factory and Lanzhou Cigarette Factory in northwestern China’s Gansu Province have formally merger and the launching ceremony was held on Decmeber 25 in Tianshui.
After the merger, employees of former Tianshui Cigarette Factory will be accepted and allocated completely by Lanzhou Cigarette Factory, while Lanzhou Cigarette Factory will adopt integrated management over output, sale and supply as well as employees, assets and materials.
Employees of former Tianshui Cigarette Factory were not surprised by the merger because the factory was put under trusteeship of Lanzhou Cigarette Factory as early as 17 months ago.
www.globalink.org /10258.shtml   (1994 words)

  
 Personal Experience: I Was Illegally Sent to a Drug Rehabilitation Centre for 40 Days | Clearharmony - Falundafa in ...
I am a Falun Dafa practitioner in Tianshui City, Gansu Province.
I was illegally sentenced to one-year forced labour for appealing in Beijing in 1999.
When the handcuffs were unlocked, a circular bloody imprint was left on each of my wrists.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200205/4799p.html   (482 words)

  
 Wushan Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
It's also possible to visit Gangu as a day trip from Tianshui; minibuses run from the Qincheng bus station in the morning.
If you want to visit both Gangu and the grottoes in one day from Tianshui you need to rent a vehicle, which, to handle the rough road from Wushan, needs to be something bigger than a taxi - more like a small minibus.
It might be simpler to stay a night at either Wushan or Gangu, perhaps as a stopover on the way between Tianshui and Lanzhou.
www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/China/Wushan   (298 words)

  
 CNN.com - Crane collapses onto Chinese school - December 27, 2001
Nineteen children were hospitalized after the accident Monday in Tianshui, a town in Gansu province, said the spokesman, who gave only his surname, Zhang.
The crane belonging to the Tianshui No. 3 Construction Company was standing 33 feet from a school for the children of employees, Zhang said.
It fell in mid-afternoon when classes were in session.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/12/27/china.crane   (149 words)

  
 Romance of Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong - Chapter 93   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Zhao Zilong had been sent to lie in ambush in a secret place among the hills till the Tianshui army left the city, when he was to rush in and capture it.
The man from Anding replied, "The storehouse of Tianshui is at Shanggui.
But as he drew near, he saw the walls were decorated with Shu ensigns, for Wei Yan had captured the place and was in possession.
www.threekingdoms.com /chapter.php?c=93   (6611 words)

  
 Silk Road
It runs through the three important towns of Xian, Tianshui and Lanzhou; before you, are sights of prosperity, combining with picturesque scenery too beautiful to miss.
From Xian via Weishui, 1,000 miles to the west is Tianshui.
If Dunhuang Mogao Caves is the palace of murals, Tianshui Maiji Shan Caves must be the museum of statutes.
www.the-silk-road.com /journal8.html   (2374 words)

  
 It's a fat red line on the map! :: China by Bike :: April -- October '98
Highway G310, the straightest line between Baoji in Shaanxi province and Tianshui in Gansu province.
It looked like we were in for a disheartening backtrack through a very nasty construction zone, a couple dozen kilometers retraced eastward to the last bridge connecting the Wei's north and east banks.
Midway into the second climb Emma asks, rhetorically, "I guess this means we won't make Tianshui in two days?" I reply with a wry grin.
www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejfour/029redln.htm   (2265 words)

  
 Climate of Tianshui
Located in the southeastern part of Gansu Province and the southern part of the Yellow Soil Plateau, Tianshui is 1,100m above sea level.
The annual average temperature is 11.5°C, with July being the hottest month and January the coldest.
The annual precipitation is between 550mm and 770mm, mainly falling during the rainy season from June to September.
www.muztagh.com /tianshui/climate.htm   (76 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Tianshui City, Gansu Province] Maiji District Police Arrested Mr.
Tianshui, Gansu Province] Wang Yuping Is Imprisoned in Linxia Prison
On May 30, 2005, Feng Jitang led police from the Maiji District Police Station in Tianshui City and arrested practitioner Mr.
cw83913.zhufa.org /emh/articles/2005/6/24/62185.html   (1232 words)

  
 Tianshui Travel Guide
It is an origination point of the Chinese nation and has many sites of historical interest.
Those who stay one day in Tianshui can visit the Maujishan Grottoes and the Xianren Cliff.
The Maijishan Grottoes lies to the southeast of Tianshui City on a hill named Maijishan.
www.chinahighlights.com /tianshui   (315 words)

  
 Tianshui Pictures: Fuxi Temple in Tianshui
Tianshui Fuxi Temple is the only such temple with the statue of Fuxi.
The statue of Fuxi in the Fuxi Temple, Tianshui.
The divining patterns on the roof, Fuxi Temple,Tianshui.
www.travelchinaguide.com /picture/gansu/tianshui/fu_xi_temple   (118 words)

  
 Nortel: Nortel Digital Cable TV Network for China's Gansu Province to Bring Communications to Rural Areas for First Time
The contract with the Broadcast and Television Bureaus of Jiuquan, Tianshui and Zhangye is estimated at US$12 million.
The new CATV infrastructure is expected to help alleviate poverty in Gansu through wider availability of such public services as education, remote diagnostic medical treatment, and business and government information for residents who currently have limited or no access to communications.
Export Development Canada (EDC) is financing the Gansu CATV project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2005 to meet the country's digital TV transition timetable as established by the Chinese government.
www.nortelnetworks.com /corporate/news/newsreleases/2005b/06_14_05_gansu_catv.html   (1065 words)

  
 Tianshui China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On the train four English speaking guys shared my compartment and all traveled with laptops to support their jobs with Western firms.
On arrival in Tianshui they guided me to a quite nice nearby hotel.
I am in Tianshui to see the Maijishan Grottoes not far from here.
www.samplers.com /indiachina/tianshui.htm   (237 words)

  
 CPJ News Alert 2002
On July 24, 2002, the Intermediate Court in Tianshui City, Gansu Province, sentenced Li for "subverting state power," according to CPJ sources in China and international news reports.
Police in Tianshui City originally detained Li on April 14, 2001.
He was formally arrested on April 22 and was tried sometime in May that same year.
www.cpj.org /news/2002/China06aug02na.html   (424 words)

  
 Gansu labour activists sentenced   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Two labour activists and their advisor from the city of Tianshui in Gansu province have been sentenced to prison terms by the Tianshui People's Intermediate Court after being charged with
Guo Xinmin and Yue Tianxiang were both drivers at the state-owned Tianshui City Transport Company.
When the company refused to negotiate a settlement regarding wage arrears and a legal-entitled living allowance, the two workers decided to take their case to the Tianshui Labour Disputes Arbitration Committee (LDAC).
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55/676.html   (344 words)

  
 ChinaESignature
Since you take the office of the State Department, you perform new policies, correct mistakes, reach the people, make efforts and have great achievements.
We request that you firmly and immediately investigate and find the truth, and treat the case properly.
Chinese citizens: Yang Tianshui, Dai Xuewu, Xu Wanping, Che Hongnian, Li Guotao.
qian-ming.net /english/default.aspx?dir=scp&cid=7   (406 words)

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