Yao Ming Graduates After 7 Years!

It is never too late to get a college degree. Former Rockets big man and Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Yao Ming finally graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University last weekend.

Yao originally enrolled in 2011 as an economics major. He gave a speech at the ceremony and informed the crowd of how he nearly dropped out of school at one point due to the difficulty of his math classes.

Fortunately for Yao, he stuck through it and is now a college graduate. This adds to his successful career on and off the hardwood.

Yao was with the Rockets from 2002-2011, making 8 All-Star Game appearances and having his #11 retired by the organization.

He also has a restaurant "YAO Restaurant and Bar."

Since retiring, Yao became a global ambassador for the NBA, helping promote the game in China. He is also a big reason the country has adopted the Rockets as a rooting favorite.

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Buildings that will make you laugh in China

This one is in Wuxi Province

Every time you travel to another place, you are met with challenges that are new to you, especially if you never traveled to new places. Today, let's take a look at some new buildings that you'll find when you travel to China. The atmosphere will not make you thrilled by watching these buildings rather you will be bursting to laughter and satisfaction as you witness the newest archaelogical feats achieved by the architects and engineers behind these projects, such as the teapot above or the art building below.

This is an art building in Hefei, Anhui Province.

This is a building in Shenyang, FangYuan Dasha

Sheraton Hotel in Huzhou

In Hebei Province, Tianzi Hotel

Wuliangye liquor company buildings

Olympic park building

In Guanxi, presents the cardboard building

CCTV building in Beijing

In Suzhou, we found a building that looks like a trouser

This one building is in Guangzhou Plastic Company

A snail building in Beijing.

The tallest building in Jinan Province, it looks like... You get the idea, but I think I might have overthank

A bus station in Jinan

A building as thin as a paper in Shijiazhuang Province

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Chinese Bike Sharing Companies Desire to Expand Worldwide

Mobike, one of the bike sharing companies in China got an investment of six million US dollars to help it expand its bike sharing services worldwide.

Bike renting companies are not new in the world, but companies in China have been named the first ones to use technology to make bike sharing possible. After success in China, now they are expanding beyond borders. Using GPS technology, all you need is an App on your smartphone which will show you where the bikes are near you. You use your smartphone camera to scan a QR Code on the bike to unlock it and then all you have to do is ride it to wherever you want and just leave it there, when you lock it you will receive a bill on your app, and you can see how long, and how far you've travelled, and how much you they charged you.

Mobike reports a stagering amount of 100 million users using its bikes a combined amount of 25 million times a day. The service spans 100 cities in China, and it have expanded to Singapore, at the end of this month, they are planning to start operating in Manchester, UK, and this will be the first city in Europe to receive their services.

The founder and CEO of Mobike Davis Wang, said they want to expand their services worldwide and they plan to have a global presence in more than 200 cities on earth at the end of this year.

Another company that provides the same services, Ofo, have also shown interest in expanding abroad as well, it is already asking for investors and sponsors from different sources. Valued at one billion at the beginning of the year, Ofo, is already operating in Singapore and have trials in Cambridge, UK. Many companies around the world are already immitating the trend, such as US's LimeBike which started a few months ago which is basically a copycat of Ofo.

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How to Cool Off During Summer, Humorous Way

When summer comes, every one is looking for that easier way to cool off themselves, and Chinese have given us the better example to do it. The sense of humor, accompanied with the never give up testaments in the pictures below, will help lift your spirit and build a courage to face the summer without not so much of grievance. I got to admit that the pics below are as funny as anything funny. For example the guy who puts all limbs in the water, I wonder though, did he put ice on the water? lol, would like your water on ice or?

As they say, you get creative when you meet a problem, these are just some of the coolest ways to cool off, need we say more?

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Chinese New Year

28th of this year, Chinese people will be celebrating the biggest traditional festival. And this is not any but the New year celebration. How big is this celebration? It is celebrated by almost the fifth of the world population, that means more than one billion people will be celebrating. On top of that, many East Asian countries will be celebrating this new year as they share most of the history and culture so it is not a surprise. During this time, schools are closed, shops are closed and most of the people will be on a month long holiday to give them a time to celebrate the CNY(Chinese New Year).
This is a long time tradition in China, every year the date is different due to the difference in Lunar and Solar calenders, but most of the time it falls between 21st January to 20th February.

Picha inaonyesha baadhi ya miiko kipindi cha mwaka mpya

The festival was held to celebrate the new planting season, during the time, most of the Chinese people depended on Agriculture. With development, most of the Chinese people are not peasants anymore, but they haven't quit their traditional ways of celebrating Spring festival. Most of them go to the cities to find work, and during this time they all have to go back to their hometown to celebrate this important festival, almost 200 million people travel back to their hometown every year during this time. The tradition have changed from praying for more harvest, to get better jobs and fortune.
They celebrate for the whole month, eventhough the most important day is the new year day. With development, it is harder to celebrate for the whole month, and so, celebration period have been adjusted from one week to two weeks, all those who have to work during this period receives extra payment and bonus.

In a span of 12 years, each year is dedicated to a certain animal, that is why you will hear they say this is the year of Dragon, or Monkey and so on. To celebrate the spring festival, they beg pardon to those they mistreated or sinned against, they refrain from sinning, they forgive those who have wronged them, and they make new chances to know more people, to buy new clothes, to give gifts to others(this is mostly a red envelop packed with cash), cleaning up their houses, eating well, and do fireworks(this makes China the country that do fireworks in large numbers more than any country in the world.), they do fireworks to scare the evil spirits.

During this time, it is also a perfect time to introduce your lover to your parents, relatives and neighbours. Without that you might be annoyed  by the questions posed to you by them, that is the reason why during this festival there's a booming business of "pretend-boyfriend/girlfriend for rent", this is a quick way to make money during this time for many youths.

Different ways to say "Happy new year" in Chinese~
Happy new year                                                Xin nian kuaile    
Happy new year, Congrats be wealthy        Xin nian kuaile, gongshi facai
Happy Spring Festival                                   Chunjie kuaile
Luck on the new year                                      Xin nian Daji

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An African Man Who Works as Traditional Medicine Doctor in China

On 14th Novermber, in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, as reported by Tencent news.
When we were walking around Chengdu city, one traditional medicine hospital, we met an African doctor who practices Chinese Traditional medicine tendering to an old man. This Doctor is a Diallo, who have been living and working in China for more than 30 years practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine. "Daye, shibushi ganjue hao yixie le?" we heard him asking the old man using fluent Chinese Mandarin which means "Grand pa, do you feel good now?". After he fell ill one day, the old man was taken to a hospital to receive medical attention, at first he hesitated upon seeing that the doctore was a foreigner, but after he pursuaded that the foreigner is a good doctor, he agreed, and after one week of recieving treatment from a foreigner he is feeling better now and walks without problem. "I can't believe that a foreigner doctor can use our Chinese Traditional Medicine to treat us".  The old man wa heard praising Dr. Diallo.

In 1964, Diallo was born in Mali from a family of Doctors. 20 years later he came to China to study Chinese Traditional Medicine. After he completed Chinese language course in Beijing, he went to Guangzhou to study medicine.

He completed his bachelor degrees and went on to study Masters and Phd in Sichuan province. He started working on a hospital in Sichuan, it was not easy at first, he remembers that patients were refusing to be treated by him when they saw that he was a foreigner.

Fast forward more than 30 years now, he says he have passed through a lot of difficulties, but he's already get used to the life here and he loves his job.

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How to Cure Cold and flue Sans Medicine

When seasons changes, espeacially when they comes earlier than thought, many people gets cold and flue easier. After I started feeling the symptoms of cold, I told my Chinese friend about it. He told me an easier way to get rid of the sickness as soon as possible without using medicine, and I didn't believe untill I tried it.

Cure: You need Ginger and Coca cola.
Grind ginger to small pieces, or just slice it into pieces.
Mix it with Coca cola and then boil it.
When it is boiled pour it in your favorite cup and drink. Get a rest and if you do it right, the next day you wake up you will be as good as new.

You need to use this as soon as you start to feel the symptoms, don't wait till it is too late.

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Learn Some Chinese Part two

I want/need...

    

             Chinese                    Prounciation                               English

            我要/想                   wo yao/xiang                               I want/need

        我想/要吃饭             wo xiang/yao chi fan                  I want to eat food

         我想/要尿尿               wo xiang/yao niao niao                 I want to pee          

       我想/要去非洲         wo xiang/yao qu feizhou             I want to go to Africa

       我想/要去厕所         wo xiang/yao qu cesuo                I want to go to the toilet     

       我想/要去城市里     wo xiang/yao qu chengshili         I want to go to the city/town

        我想/要回家               wo xiang/yao huijia                      I want to go home

           去/过去                     qu/guoqu                                      Go

            回/回去                      hui/ huiqu                                   Back/ Go back

            这个                              zhege                                        This

             那个                             nage                                          That

Notice any mistake? Please let us know! See you

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Learn Some Chinese Part one

Phrases

       Chinese                         Pronounciation                  English

        我和你                         wo he ni                           Me and you

        我爱你                         wo ai ni                            I love you

   我爱坦桑呢亚             wo ai tansangniya                 I love Tanzania

        我爱中国                     wo ai zhongguo                I love China

           我去...                         wo qu....                          I go...

          我要....                       wo yao....                         I want ...

          我吃....                        wo chi ...                           I eat ...

        我喝 ...                        wo he ....                           I drink ....

       他/她喝                        ta he ....                            He/She drink ...

      他们/她们吃                 tamen chi ....                      They eat ....

       我们吃...                      women chi ...                      We eat ...

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Learn Chinese

	Chinese	Pronounciation	English
	人	Ren	Person
	我	Wo	I/me
	你	Ni	You
	他/她	Ta	Him/Her
	我们	Women	We
	他们/她们	Tamen	They
	东西	Dongxi	Thing
	吃	Chi	Eat
	喝	He	Drink
	说	Shuo	Speak/Say
	水	Shui	Water
	饭/餐	Fan/Can	Food
	水果	Shuiguo	Fruits
	果汁	Guozhi	Juice
	酒	Jiu	Alcohol

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Stephon Marbury: His Life in Beijing

Name: Stephon Marbury

_{Chinese Name: 斯蒂芬·马布里}

Stephon Marbury was born in February 20th, 1977, New York, USA. He is a professional Basketball in China. He joined Milwaukee Bucks after being drafted at number 4 in NBA from University of Georgia, he was soon sold to Minnesota Timberwolves.
In 2010 he joined a Chinese team Shanxi Zhongyu. The same year november, he joined Guangdong Foshan team. Two years later he joined Beijing Ducks and lead them to win CBA(China Basketball Association) cup three times. When he joined Beijing Ducks, it is reported that he was working really hard, and he was also exercising and playing with extra efforts in every match. The team's coach Mr. Min Lulei commented that "Beijing Ducks can survive without me, but can not survive without Marbury"

        Beijing Ducks won 2012, 2014 and 2015 CBA cup. In 2012 the Beijing Government gave him "Beijing Honorary Citizenship". The highest honor given to the foreign workers in China.

       2012, 2014, na mwaka 2015 aliwezesha timu ya Beijing Ducks kuwa mabingwa wa kombe la CBA. He have won the hearts of many Beijing citizens due to his efforts and simple way of life. He uses public transportation and eats in local street restaurants which makes him exceptional as a superstar who lives a normal life.

In Beijing there is a statue of him elected to honor his contribution to the Beijing team. There is even his museum in Beijing.

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How Chinese Celebrate Silent Night

24th December is a silent night, and it is the day that many of us are planning on how to spend the Christmas the next day. To Chinese this is different, because there is actually no official holiday except for a few places, to them it is a normal day. There are about 1 million Christians in China, this is a very small number compared to a total population of about 1.4 billion. Businessmen and entrepreneurs have found an opportunity to use this day and its popularity to promote their products disregarding whether you are a Christian or not. To make this day special, Chinese celebrate it with a twist to make it interesting.
Foreigners living in China gets surprised when their hosts advices them to send an apple to someone you care about on this day, because they don't know why. After asking we got an answer, that to Chinese it is a good thing to eat an Apple(which is Ping guo in Chinese) during Silent Night(which is Ping An Ye in Chinese). "Ping" is present on both words, Apple and Silent Night, so they goes together. "Ping An" means "Peace" and "ye" means "Night", so when you eat an Apple during that day, you will be at peace and happy.
We wish you a merry Christmas.

  

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Chinese Famous Actress Libingbing

Name:Li Bingbing
Chinese Name: 李冰冰 
Li Bingbing is a Chinese actor who is famous worldwide. She was born in 1973, in Heilongjiang Province, Haerbin city. He studied acting in Shanghai and got her first degree.
In 2000, after taking part in the film "Juvenile Justice Bao", she got a lot of fans in China, the same year she took part on the film "The Smart Kid", she won best actress award in the Singapore International Films awards from her role in the movie "Dream Home". She took part in the movies "Waiting Alone" and "A wolrd with no thief" to which she won Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards. She also took part in the TV show "8 heroes" in 2005 and in 2007 she won China Movies awards for her participation in the movie "The Knot".     

Libingbing in the movie The forbidden Kingdom

In 2009 she won Taiwan's Golden Horse awards due to her acting on the movie "Rumor". She also acted on foreign movies such as, "The Forbidden Kingdom", "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", "Resident Evil 5" and gained a lot of international fans. She is signed un the US company UTA.

In 2013 she was chosen as the the most popular superstar in Asia, and she were chosen as the Gucci's spokesperson. She also participated in the movie "The Transformers 4".

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The Story of Baidu Founder, Robin Li

Baidu CEO

English Name：Robin Li

Chinese Name: 李彦宏

Born in 1968, Shanxi, Yangchuan from a normal family. When he was a little kid, he liked the Opera, and he was signed to a Shanxi Opera company when he was a primary school student. But when he reached Secondary school he quit the Opera.
In 1987, he joined Beijing University studying Library and Information Major(now called Information Management) after scoring the best student in his town in the University Entrance Exam(Gaokao).
When he reached the third year of his university major he bought Toefl, GRE and other books so he can qualify to move to the US to study Computer.

Life in the US:
In 1991 he was admitted to the University of New York Buffalo's Computer department. There, he studied Computer during the day, and English during the night, at the same time he started writing computer programs. Most of the time, he were sleeping at 2 in the night.

Silicon valley:
"When I was in Silicon Valley I got an idea to use technology to change the world, and change my life"
In 1994 during summer holiday, he got an invitation to work at a Wall Street company, Dow Jones. There he worked for three years and a half, he was collecting and publishing economic and marketing information to the web.
In 1997 he changed his job and joined a silicon valley company, Infoseek. Working on this company he got the opportunity to read Wallstreet Daily magazine daily, and that is where he learned how Microsoft defeated IBM and became the world's largest computer company in the world. He also learned a lot of secrets that Microsoft used to become the Software Giant and defeat another Software Giant, SUN, he learned a lot of ways for a company to thrive. These stories made him realize that, for a big company to thrive, technology is not the only way, but business and marketing are the most important.

Back to China

After spending 8 years abroad, web technology started to develop fast in China. At that time he was going back to China to research the local market. In 1999 he concluded that he was ready to start a company at home. He rented two hotel rooms in Ziyuan Hotel and employed an accountant, 5 engineers and a friend whose name is Xuyong, together eight people started Baidu Company.
After a few months he secured a 1.2 million Dollars Loan and he used it to expand the company, after success during this time he managed to secure an investment of 10 million dollars from the same company that loaned his company 1.2 million dollars.

In 2001, he made an announcement to change the algorithm of their search engine, introducing some new reforms that many Investors and shareholders were afraid that they will lead to the death of his company. But he insisted, and from his confidence after saying that, when he invision something, it is going to happen, they let the plan go ahead. As soon as the reforms took place, Baidu company became a very successful company, number two in the world after Google in the world and number one in China.
In 2014, Robin was announced the second riches man in China, with a fortune of almost 14.7 Billion.

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Story of the Alibaba Founder, Jack Ma

Name: His English name is Jack Ma, and his Chinese name is Ma Yun(马云).
Little History: He was born in 1967, September 10th in Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou. In 1999 he started a Alibaba, the company that is now operating worldwide, in 2014 he his company went public in the US. Its shares were sold at 21 billion dollars, surpassing China Agricultural Bank. This also made him the wealthiest man in China by the time, and he were the first person in China to be featured on the cover of the Forbes magazine.

When he was a kid he liked English language so much that he usually made foreign friends who were living/working in China so he could learn the language. His story shows that he was not really school-smart but he managed to make a lot of friends. After failing more than three times in University entrance exams, he managed to pass and invited to study Education in the University of Hangzhou, where he got his first degree in 1988.
All this time he didn't know a thing about computer, but his foreign friends told him about computers and the Internet, during their conversations he discovered the power of Internet and computers. He started talking to his Chinese friends about the power of Internet and computers but many of them mocked him because at the time, very few people knew about them. they thought he was a fraud or he was a daydreamer, but one day he invited his friends to his home to show them how internet is used, they bought some liquor and waited for the whole night for half of a website to open, this is when even those friends who were mocking him started to praise him because they never saw something like that before.

During this time he were also helping his foreign friends to create websites, and he also started his own Yellow pages company, this was the first website in China. He went on to work on various other communications projects with different companies. He started Alibaba in 1999, at that time its aim was to connect farmers and buyers, when it succeeded tremendously, he also transformed Alibaba to be a company that connects manufacturers and buyers directly all over the world. The company also went on to open few sister companies such as Taobao, which is one of the largest retail company in China, he also created an online payment company Zhifubao to help people pay online easily. Untill now, these companies are leading companies in China.

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Chinese Young Woman Making Millions of CNY Selling Chinese Chestnut

The girl in action

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She is only 21 years old, but every night she carries a basket full of Chinese chestnuts and roams around town, especially in the restaurants where many people meet to eat some night time BBQs while their quenching their thirst by drinking some beers(popularly known as "yexiao" in Chinese). In two years time, she has sold more than 30 tons of Chinese chestnuts, and she has been a famous person in the town that she is working.
She goes by the name of Ms. Liu and she lives with her father, her parents divorced. Because her father had some health problems, he wasn't able to help her financially, and when was in high school, she started working part-time jobs to support herself. Most of these jobs didn't satisfy her, and so in 2012, she decided to start her own business, selling Chinese Chestnuts. In the beginning, her boss used to pay her 2.50 RMB(approximately 40 cents US$) for each bag she sells. Later her salary went  10,000 RMB a month(about 1600 US$).
There are many young girls who do the same job, but very few who can generate the same amount. When asked about her secret she said "When you are selling things to other people, you need to be obedient, you can't force somebody to buy, you need to ask what they need first, then when they agree, you can let them taste, this way the client will trust you more and do business with you". For example, tow clients who just bought from her didn't want to buy at first, but after a little a chat with her, they bought. Service is the key, you don't need to force someone to buy, you need to convince them to buy.

How hard is her job?

When people hear her story, they think that her job is very easy, especially when they hear that she is a girl, but to say the truth, her job is really really difficult, the same as any other salesman job out there.

She goes out at 6pm, and she finishes at midnight 1am. All this time she doesn't have time to sit, she walks and stands for the whole time, plus the rude clients make her job much much harder.
Because of the atmosphere of her workplace(most of the people are drunk), she meets all kinds of weirdos. Some people who look down upon her, insult her and many other bad encounters. But she says that she doesn't listen to those people, apart from the psychological and physiological problems, other problems includes carrying and standing or walking for a long time which gives her back and waist pains, she enjoys her job, though. Other challenges include breaking the nuts which injure her tender hands, making her hands look like old woman hands.

Dreams of Being her Own Boss

After working hard for a while, she managed to make enough capital to start her own business, she has planned for a budget and next year she plans to quit her current job to start her own business.

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Luxurious Wedding in Tangshan

Rolls-Royce 

This month 23rd, Tangshan city, Hebei province, citizens were flabbergusted when they saw a fleet of luxurious wedding cars, the amount of all the cars combined was more than 200 Million dollars.

Luxurious cars

The wedding held in a luxurious hotel, in which one table alone costs around 10 thousand CNY(around 1500 US$). There were more than 1000 guests and they ordered more than 100 tables, from the ground floor to the 3rd floor.

Arriving 

Apart from that, they also invited some famous people such as the famous Hunan Television MC Lixiang.

MC LiXiang arriving at the stage

Famous actors such as ZhangWeiJian,  YuanLiuNeng na YuanZhaoSi were also invited.

ZhangWeiJian

YuanLiuNeng

YuanZhaoSi

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