Street view and No.85 High School in Xi An, 9/8/05

Pictures of the famous buildings in Xi'an, where I gr俄w up and finished my college.

The first is the Bell Tower in the center of the city. The second is the Main office building of the Shaanxi provincial government. My uncle was one of its architects designed this building two decades ago. I still remembered a front view of the grant building when I walked into his office before the build was built. The third picture has the Clock Building. I used to look at its time while rushing back to home for the broadcasting novels at lunch time, in my 4-th grade.

The fourth picture shows the Pagoda of Great Goose. It is the famous symbol of a buddhist temple. My high school is located nearby in the fifth picture. Across the street, I took the six picuture for one of the famous Chinese telecomm company, Da Tang Telecomm. Apparently, it has taken over the place of the previous N0.4 Institude of Minstry of Post and Telecommunications. It used to do research and prototype on satellite and microwave transmission equipment.

The seventh picture was the park outside the south gate of the city wall. When the former US President Clinton visited Xi An, his welcome ceremony was hold here. The eighth picture has a lot of college students sitting on stairs, waiting for high school tutoring jobs in the Xiao3 Zhai4 小寨 shopping district. They had their resumes and posters in hand, waiting for a job to earn extra money to catch up the increasing education cost. The ninth picture has a traffic sign of "No Honk within City Limit". This had reduced noise significantly. The traffic was very bad. Apparently, the two foreign visitors in the picture still had a hard time crossing the street, even on the pedestrian line. Because cars are not stopped for pedestians, be aware!
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