Networking usually means, to business people anyway, the chance to meet and talk to potentially useful contacts. However to a particular young Chinese woman, it means driving a ball hard enough to stop her opponent hitting it back over the net. Zheng Jie is a professional tennis player. She is currently ranked world number 18, making her China and Asia’s highest-ranked women’s singles player. At Wimbledon in 2008 Zheng became greatly admired not just because she became the first Chinese player ever to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam singles, but because she donated her winnings to the victims of the 2008 earthquake in her native Sichuan province.
ChinaOne Call wishes Zheng continued success in 2009.
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GUILIN, CHINA
A short way outside Guilin city centre, set back from the Peach Blossom River beneath Bright Mountain, Reed Flute Cave is the archetypal stuff of local legend, with stalactite and stalagmite piled one upon the other above limpid pools and lit in the sharpest of primary colours. Once a refuge for the citizens of Guilin fleeing Japanese bombs and roaming bandits, more recently a venue for political rallies in the heady days of the Cultural Revolution, the cave is now swarming with tourists during the day, and – on occasion – filled with up to 500 conventioneers who are brought here in the evening for formal black-tie dinners amid such poetically named formations as the Dragon Pagoda and the Crystal Palace. The cave’s transformation – from hosting Mao jackets to dinner jackets – is perhaps one of the best snapshots of the development of Guilin’s cuisine over the past few decades.
To read the full article on Guilin by Edward Peters plus lots more on food, wine and travel simply click on to the digital edition: www.f1colour.co.uk/DE/Food&Travel/APRIL09.htm
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In the UK on Friday 13 March its Red Nose Day, a day of fun and games to raise money for worthwhile causes across the globe. So ChinaOneCall is doing its bit.
We will donate £5 GBP for the charities organised by Comic Relief for every new client signing up and every top-up,
during March 2009. So spread the word and bring luck to others. Just use REDNOSE9 in the promotional code box on our website and remember when you sign up or top-up there is no expiry date on the credit you purchase.
Offer ends 31st March 2009
Every Spring, dust storms from China’s northern deserts whistle towards Beijing. Called the Yellow Dragon, it can cover houses, cars and people, causing coughs and other ailments. As part of its drive to make 2008 the year of the Green Olympics, Beijing officials started a huge campaign to grow a 2,800 mile defensive line of forestry, called the Great Green Wall. Also part of the Green Olympics initiative was the added importance given to China’s National Tree Planting Day on 12 March. Many visitors to Beijing now comment on how visibly greener the nation’s capital has become.
ChinaOneCall’s customers can also become ‘greener’ by cutting down on unnecessary and expensive business trips, using our telephone interpreters to conduct negotiations. Calls are redirected at ChinaOneCall’s expense from UK local-rate or US toll free numbers. ChinaOneCall also provides translations by email of correspondence, documents catalogues and websites. So, if you are planning a visit to China, think carefully, and weigh up the greener ChinaOneCall option.
Please let us know if you cancelled a business trip and when you used ChinaOneCall’s services instead, and we promise to plant a tree for you in China on 12 March!