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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