Shandong
Jining Aston
Jining is a quaint city. It has access to over 14 different smaller cities which are a part of its province and has a great local cuisine showing the many different styles that Shandong province has to offer.
The city has many locations for shopping and a wide selection of items to choose from. There are many stores where you can get access to day-to-day household goods. RT Mart (Da Run Fa in Chinese) has many western and Chinese foods that will allow you to enjoy a good meal when you need to feel at home. It’s the Asian “Wal-Mart” in the area – it distributes large quantities of most items you would ever need.
Yantai Aston
Linyi Aston
Linyi, situated in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong,now plays host to one of Aston's newest schools. The school currently operates with one foreign manager and one foreign teacher, which makes up part of a team consisting of a Chinese Manager, 3 Chinese staff and several reception staff that make the atmosphere and work environment in the school a comfortable, welcoming and professional school to work in.
The Chinese Manager and Teacher's are all qualified and experienced to offer the best teaching experience to our students. At present the school is small, with 150 students, but with plenty of room for expansion in the future, Linyi shows promising signs of growing to accommodate many more students, which will be taught by a 10 strong foreign teaching staff team. The school boasts the excellent location of being across the road from the People's Square, the city center of Linyi.
Weifang Aston
Weifang is a medium-sized prefecture-level city in China, boasting a population of approximately 8.5 million people and administrating over 12 county-level divisions. Annual GDP of the area amounts to approximately 12.5 billion RMB. An up-and-coming city, Weifang is usually eclipsed by its more famous neighbors, Jinan and Qingdao. However, in acting as a convenient travel point between the two major cities as well as being bolstered by its own strong industry, Weifang is growing rapidly.
Zibo Aston
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Zibo is located between the mountainous and the flat, plain area of the Shandong province. Zibo is in an ideal geographical location, with Mountain Tai in the south, the Yellow River in the north, seashore tourist cities like Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai in the east, and the City of Spring--Jinan, in the west.
Zibo is an important hub in Shandong, facilitating both railroad and highway transport. The total length of railway in the city is 558 kilometers. The road has 15 main lines leading to other cities. The roads have a total length of over 3000 kilometers. Jiqing Highway crosses the whole city from east to west. It is only 70 kilometers from ZhangDian to Jinan International Airport. It is 210 kilometers to the Qingdao port in the east. As you can see, Zibo is conveniently located near major air and shipping ports. Zibo is also a mail-processing station and a telecommunication center in Shandong.
Dongying Aston
Dongying is a small city situated near the mouth of the Yellow River in Shandong Province. Although the village area had been settled by Han Chinese for more than three thousand years, Dongying boomed in the 1980s and because of this is considered a new city compared to other locations in the province such as Jinan and Qufu.
Twenty years ago the city had a population of several thousand residents. Since then, thanks to the economic boom also being experienced at similar hot spots throughout the country, this has grown into an urban population estimated at 700,000 and approximately two million people throughout the prefecture. Shandong being one of the most traditional areas of China means that the population is vastly Han Chinese with scatterings of Hui and Xinjiang communities.
Qingdao Aston
Qingdao is a coastal city in Shandong with a unique modern history. A fishing village for millennium, imperialistic behavior of the last century led to the founding of ports and naval bases at the site of the modern city by the Germans, Japanese, and then Chinese. Today the city has the most vibrant economy in Shandong and is gearing up for its part in the upcoming Olympic Games.
Qingdao is in reality two distinct cities. The old city is in the east and this is the traditional area of Qingdao. It is here that tourists come to observe turn of the century German architecture, attempt to relax with the multitudes on the beach, and wander the old cobblestone lanes. Up and over a series of small hills is the new city. Much of this area is brand new, modern, and booming. It is here the majority of commerce takes place and most of the population lives. Businesses, night life, up-market restaurants, high rise residential districts, etc. are all concentrated in this section of the city.
Jinan Aston
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Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province and has been a major urban center for thousands of years. As early as the Tang Dynasty the city was already the social and cultural focal point of Shandong and this has continued up to the present day. Today the city is a modern metropolis and one of the most intriguing cities of Eastern China due to its size and relative lack of Western influence.
The city sits at the base of the Tai Shan Mountains over one of the most concentrated natural spring areas of Asia. The Yellow River passes just to the north of the city. The surrounding region is one of the oldest settled and most traditional areas in the whole of China. Fertile farmlands of the Yellow River delta and the river and spring systems generated in the nearby mountains allowed for settled agriculture, and then advanced civilization, to develop here at a very early date in human history. The region has been a main center of Chinese civilization for more than three thousand years.
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