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Photo by Yao Fan A total of 1,500 couples in Xiamen registered on October 10, 2010, which was considered an auspicious day for marriage in China. The couples broke the previous record of 900 marriage registries on September 9, 2009. The Siming District Marriage Registry Office ...
Photo by Wang Huoyan The first Xiangyu International Xiang an Hiking Competition will take place on October 19. The two-day event is organized by Xiang an District, the National Olympic Sports Center and Xiamen Daily. The competition will include more than 6,000 participants ...
Since the Fuzhou-Xiamen bullet trains are in greater demand during the National Day holiday, Xiamen Railway Station decided to further add more Fuzhou and Fuqing-bound bullet trains, the Southeast Express reports. The specific schedule of the added trains is as follows: - D6328 ...
The Xiamen Water Group has announced a plan to install drinking fountains at public places throughout the city over the next three years. Fountains will be installed at city parks, bus stations, wharfs, tourist attractions and the airport. Drinking fountains will be installed ...
The first Global Congress of Chinese Dentists (GCCD) was held in Xiamen on last Thursday. Approximately 10,000 oral and dental professionals from 40 countries, including Canada, Germany and Japan, attended the event. The three-day event included multiple exhibitions and seminars ...
Photo by Yao Fan A symphony concert was held last Sunday in the concert hall of the Xiamen International Conference Center. Pictured is famed pianist Li Yundi performing at the event. Mr. Li was the youngest pianist to win the International Fr d ric Chopin Piano Competition at ...
Xiamen University will no longer accept full-time employees as students in doctoral programs, with the exception of the Education department and programs dedicated to the study of ethnic minorities. Applicants who are accepted must resign from their jobs prior to the commencement ...
Flights by Xiamen Airlines between Fuzhou and Taiwan will resume on December 6 with a round-trip flight per day. Flight capacity on the route has increased significantly. Mandarin Airlines and Uni Air commenced scheduled flights from Fuzhou to Taichung and Fuzhou to Kaohsiung ...
Marco Polo Xiamen has been selected as the Best Business Hotel in Xiamen for six consecutive years by Business Traveller China. The awards are determined by the magazine s readers, who travel frequently in the Asia-Pacific region. With the upgraded facilities, all the staff will ...
The Cross-Strait Innovation Exhibition kicked off in Taipei on November 11. Organized by the Taiwan Commercial Committee and the Xiamen Cultural Bureau, the event included exhibition of craftwork, films, cosplay and tea art. Pictured is a staff from a Fujian-based tea company ...
The Xiamen-Kinmen ferry service has carried 1.04 million passengers on over 9,000 voyages so far this year, up 16.8 percent and 5.1 percent year-on-year, respectively. The ferry wharf at the Xiamen International Cruise Center recorded 640,000 passengers on more than 6,000 voyages...
Fujian recorded approximately 6.3 million tourist arrivals during the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday, an increase of 36.8 percent year-on-year. Tourism revenue hit about 3.8 billion, up 33.2 percent. Quanzhou and Xiamen each reported more than a million tourists. Cities that ...
The second cross-Strait Minnan Dialect Films Symposium was held last week in Xiamen. Organized by the Xiamen Literature Association and the Fujian Film Producers Association, the symposium drew more than 60 scholars and experts from Beijing, Hong Kong Singapore and Taiwan, as ...
The Xiamen Land and Housing Administration released last week a report on the property market in the city in 2010. Residential properties in mainland areas of the city are becoming increasingly popular with homebuyers, accounting for more than 60 percent of home sales last year. ...
Xiamen Airlines plans to provide 320 direct flights across the Taiwan Strait during the upcoming Lunar New Year travel season from January 19 to February 27, compared with 178 flights last year. Flights to Taiwan will be offered from Changsha, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and Xiamen. The ...
Sandra Nauta Student Xiamen University Dutch Category: 10 kilometers A great start I am an exchange student from Amsterdam University in Holland and I was delighted to have the opportunity to study Chinese for six months at Xiamen University. I was really excited at the chance to ...
A total of 5,343 apartments were sold in Xiamen last December, a year-on-year increase of 47 percent. Apartments sold at an average price of 16,315 yuan per square meter on the island of Xiamen and 8,043 yuan per square meter in the mainland suburbs. The price differential drove ...
Xiamen Airport last year recorded 278,000 inbound and outbound Taiwan passengers, up 125 percent year-on-year. It also registered some 35,000 mainland passengers in tour groups to Taiwan, up 300 percent. The airport currently has 56 direct weekly flights to Kaohsiung, Taichung ...
The high-speed rail link between Fuzhou and Xiamen carried some 11.8 million passengers last year, averaging more than 47,000 passengers per day. The high-speed railway between Fuzhou and Wenzhou carried about six million passengers, averaging 13,700 passengers per day. ...
Photos by Yao Fan Xiamen University opened a conference on cancer research this Monday. The symposium is one in a series of events celebrating the school s 90th anniversary. Pictured is Aaron Ciechanover, chemistry Nobel laureate in 2004, who was the keynote speaker at the ...
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