Welcome to Guangzhou City

Guangzhou City is located in south-east of China. It is the Capital City of Guangdong Province and it has a population of 12 million people. Guangzhou also is named Flower City because people who live in there love all kinds of flowers and it is famous for its flower market and its wonderful variety of food.

Guangzhou is a lively city. It is going to host 2010 Asian Games. It has modern sports buildings and good public basic facilities. Otherwise, it also has more than 2800 years history and it is the first city opening door to outside world in 1978 in China. So it has lots of historical ancient remains.

Places to visit
There are many interesting places in Guangzhou, with museums, music hall, parks and a great number of restaurants and cafes.

The Five Rams Statue
Guangzhou is nicknamed the City of Five Rams. This name comes from a beautiful legend. Now the Five Rams Statue is located in Yuexiu Park.

Western Han Nanyue King's Tomb Museum
It is one of the 80 famous museums in the world. The museum covers 14,000 square meters and the owner of the tomb is the second king, Zhao Mei of Nanyue State of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.).

Eating in Guangzhou
Cantonese cuisine is good in colour, fragrance, taste and presentation and it is also among the most famous four in the country. In Guangzhou, you can go to Yumcha from 6am in the morning to 2am in the evening.

Places to stay
There are thousands of hotels in Guangzhou. You can have a comprehensive selection of Guangzhou hotels, from luxurious hotels to economy apartments.

The White Swan Hotel is the famousest five star hotel in Guangzhou. It sets amidst the colonial architecture of Shamian Island, right on the Pearl River. The views are pleasant and you also can go to the comfortable bars to have a leisurable night.

How to get there
By plane: There are many flights from all over the world to Guangzhou.

My Favourite Singer

Celine Dion is one of my most favourite singer. She is a Canadian and I heard her sing from the movie "Titanic". I liked the song "My Heart Will Go On" and bought one of her albums. I did enjoy to listen her songs.

Celine's husband Rene was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1999. She stopped all of her work and stayed at home to look after him untill he was cured. Now Celine has achieved her childhood's dream which is to be a supper star.

One of my classmates also likes Celine's songs. He thinks that she has a nice vioce and she sings very clear and her songs are full of emotion.

Little Healthy Lifestyle Tips

Every one wants to have a healthier and longer life. How can we achieve these goals? I think we can do many things.

Firstly, we should be optimistic and try our best to reduce stress. I believe a healthy lifestyle is the most important thing to have a happy life. If we always think live is too tough, then our lives will be really hard.

Secondly, a healthy diet is also very important. We should eat more vegetables and fruit, less meat, sugar and alcohol and smoking is not good. If you have unhealthy habits, don't worry, you can change them step by step.

Thirdly, we should insist on doing exercise every day. For example, we can walk at least half an hour after dinner or we can go swimming two or three days a week. If possible walk everywhere, don't drive your car.

I believe everyone knows many healthy lifestyle tips, just start to do the right thing.

Easter Holiday

In the Easter Holiday I just stayed at home. I went shopping on Easter Monday because all of the Easter’s chocolate would have 50% discount. I bought lots of chocolate eggs and rabbits because they were very lovely and delicious. I loved them so much! I thought the beautiful chocolate would be a fantastic gift for the child. So I gave most of them to my mother because she will go back to China in May. I hoped she could have these cute gifts to her friends which lived in China.

One of my classmates moved his home in the holiday. We went to help him and did a hard work in that whole day. Eventhough we all felt very tired we were still happy. In the meantime, he gave a set of car seat cover to us and we just desided to buy one in that morning. It was really coincident.

Last Friday I have interviewed my classmate Ni Hlcing about obesity. She thinks that people will be overweight if they eat too much junk food in their life. In her country Burma, the problem of obesity isn’t a serious phenomenon. Maybe just a few women are obese. People may have some healthy problem because of obesity. Such as high blood pressure, heart disease and so on. So they shall pay higher medical charges for their disease.

Ni Hlcing thinks that goverments should make some law to combat obesity. And parents should find more time to take care of their kids and stop their children from becoming obese. She also thinks that obesity isn’t immoral when so many people in the world are starving, because there are different situations in different countries.

Chinese New Year

Last two weeks it has been Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival. In my hometown Guangzhou city, we have got some flower markets in every district to celebrate the Spring Festival for three days in advance. We build beautiful archway in front of the flower markets and decorate with colourful lights. Guangzhou city is also called the city of flower as we love flowers and we also believe that flowers can bring good luck to us. So we buy many flowers, such as daffodils, peach blossoms, orchids, little tangerine trees and so on.
People always bless each other during the Spring Festival. The married people should give lucky money to the children and the single people to give all the best wishes to them.
The Chinese New Year Festival finishes at the day of the 15th of the first lunar month.

Stay Away From the Junk Food

At present junk food has flooded the fastfood and snack market because it is convenient and tasty. However, as we know, junk food is not healthy for people, especially for children.

Government and many other organizations have been trying to solve this problem. From my point of view, firstly, we should do more public advertising to let all parents pay attention to this problem. Thus, they should not spoil their children and give them too much junk food. Secondly, we should talk to the children about the disadvantage of the junk food and ask them to stay healthy. Thirdly, maybe we could provide healthier and more delicious snacks, fastfood and beverages to replace the junk food.

To sum up, let's stay away from the junk food !