青岛景点英文导游词

青岛景点英文导游词 Chapter 11 Transportation 11.1 Zhongshan Road As the visiting card and the landmark of Qingdao, Zhongshan Road, like Wangfujing Street in Beijing, Nanjing Road in Shanghai and Quancheng Road in Jinan, leads a very important position in this city. Zhongshan Road lies in the beautiful coastal area and it connects Taiping Road to the south, a block away from Zhanqiao Pier. Zhongshan Road starts from the intersection of Guantao Road, to Dayaogou. The length of Zhongshan Road is about 1500 meters. Zhongshan Road combines 20 roads which include De Xian, Jiang Ning, Jiao Zhou, Bao Ding, Ji Mo Road etc. Zhongshan Road is the only commercial road, which has more than one hundred years? history. In November 1897, German occupied Qingdao by force. On March 6th 1898, Germany forced Qing Government to sign the treaty as the concession. Soon after that, in 1899, German began to build railroads and ports. So Zhongshan Road was built for connecting Zhanqiao, which was responsible for the busy cargo transportation. Originally, Zhongshan Road consisted of two parts, the south and north part. The south part of Zhongshan Road is from Zhanqiao Pier to Dexian Road, named Feidelli Street. This part of Zhongshan Road, called Qingdao Area or European Area at that time, belonged to German and other western colonists in Qingdao. The north part of Zhongshan Road, called Baodao (Abalone Island) or Chinese Area, (also called Wide Road), was the residential area of local citizens. The south part was very wide. There were a lot of western architectures around the south part. When people walked here, they would feel as if they were wandering in a European country. It was filled with foreign banks, coffee shops, pubs, ballrooms, inns on both sides of the road. The north part was rather narrow and crowded. There were a lot of local companies, traditional snacks and residential houses. In 1914, Japanese replaced German when WWI broke out. And afterwards Japanese had governed Qingdao for eight years. So a lot of Japanese companies left the vestige. In 1922, China recovered the sovereignty of Qingdao. The name “Fedelli Street” was firstly converted into “Shandong Road”. Then in 1929, again its name was changed to Zhongshan Road for commemorating Sun Yat-sen. And the native called it Jie Li (means the downtown area). Ever since the 20-30s of last century, this road had gathered a lot of historical buildings, including the Adams Tower (now it is No.1 Department Store of Qingdao), Qingdao Cafe & Restaurant (now it is Qingdao Hotel), Summer Inn, Department Store, Ruifu Xiang, Qianxiangyi Silk, Shengxifu Hat, Heng De Li Clock & Glasses, Chun He Lou Restaurant, Hong Ren Tang Drugstore, Shandong Grand Theater(Now it is China Cinema), Fu Lu Shou Cinema(Now it is the Red Star Cinema), Wan Guo Barber Shop, Tian Zhen Photo Shop, Bank of China, Qingdao Antique Shop, Qilu Drawing Art Shop, Overseas Chinese Shop, Yixing Shoe Shop etc. The prosperity of Zhongshan Road made the narrow streets around it benefit a lot. Jiangning Road consisted of three 50-meter-long streets. Before 1930's, there had been a lot of bungalows here. Afterwards, many two-story flats were built, the front side of the flat was for business and the back side of the flat was for rent. With the increasing popularity of Zhongshan Road, lots of storytellers and folk performers came here. Therefore, here became a famous recreational area in Qingdao. Qun Yan Teahouse and Yong?an Teahouse are quite representative. There were a lot of traditional Chinese artists like Ge Hongtao, Liu Junqing, Liu Junxia, Xie Dayu, Zhao Dashun, Hu Guihong, Gao Yuanjun, Liu Taiqing who had lived or performed here. And famous Chinese crosstalk actor, Ma Sanli performed here. It?s obvious that Zhongshan Road was so prosperous in that period. After PRC was founded in 1949, the prosperity for the entertainment was fading away day by day. But the restaurants whose specialties are the dumpling, fried dumpling or jellied bean curd took the place of the former entertainment center. From the beginning of the 80s to the middle of the 90s last century, Zhongshan Road was the most popular gathering center for the seafood hot-pot restaurants. There were many seafood restaurants on Zhongshan Road. There were sidewalk snack booths and the seafood on Zhongshan Road. Having a meal in a seafood restaurant was quite cheap. The popularity of Zhongshan Road was very high at that time. From the beginning of 1980s to the middle of 1990s, with time goes on, Jimo Road was covered by the canopies. It turned into a small-commodities market, which was famous in Shandong, even in China. “Come to Jimo Road, buy small commodities you want” became a common saying to the people in Qingdao. The popularity of Shandong Road had reached its highest peak during that period. However, with the economic strategy changes in recent years, and the east move of municipality, the economic center moved from west to the east of Qingdao. Zhongshan Road was losing its glamour day by day as well as Jimo Small Commodities Market. As the host city for the 29th Olympic Sailing Regatta in 2008, Qingdao had begun to accelerate rebuilding the old city area. Rebuilding Zhongshan Road is one of ten most important projects in Qingdao. According to the plan of the rebuilding project on Zhongshan Road, 22 old buildings would be kept, but Chun He Lou Restaurant and Qingdao Antique Shop that were built in the end of 19th century would be demolished. Within the range of church squares, Qingdao Hotel (72-year history), an 11 stories building, was tore down through the demolition blasting on March 15. And on March 18, Red Star Cinema was demolished. Zhongshan Road, a hundreds years? old street, is embracing a brand new future. 11.2 Hong Kong Road Hong Kong Road totals 16.6 kilometers from west to east, from Zhongshan Park to Songling Road. Hong Kong Road is one of the main roads connecting the old and new city area. Formerly, the west part of Hong Kong Road called Zhanshan Main Road, and the east part of it called Zhanliu Branch Road. For celebrating the recovery of Hong Kong, the road was named after Hong Kong Road in 1997. In October of 1998, the municipality decided to renovate Hong Kong Road. After the renovation, Hong Kong Road completely became a two-way street on August 21, 1999. As a main road in the modern city, the scenery, transportation and infrastructure are well combined together. Hong Kong Road has been playing an important role in perfecting the environment on eastward-city development. Developing Hong Kong Road is an important municipal act to accelerate the development of Qingdao and build an image of international city. This was for the 50th anniversary of our nation as well. After renovating Hong Kong Road, to the west of Xinjiazhuang, it was a road with six-lane of double lines, and to the east of Xinjiazhuang, it was a road with eight-lane of double lines. There were 21 bus stations on this road. These bus stations brought out the convenience for the transportation of the east-to-west. Speaking of the network of Qingdao transportation, the traffic between the east and west was greatly improved. Traffic jam was solved basically. Because of the increasing speed of autos, the distance between the old and new city area had been better drawn nearer. On this modern city road, every single detail is taken into account. Every design is the reflection of the science development. Every project should be standard. For example, the first time to use IC audio control, the first time to use the half-sheltered street lamp (it is a new type of street lamp which adopted the Austrian technology), the first time to fix guideposts which adopt the new material, and they could easily be seen in the dark. On the map, the project on Hong Kong Road made the scenery along this road get united. The scenic spots that consist of Huiquan Bay, Badaguan(The Eight Great Passes), May 4th Square, Fushan Bay Forest Park, Qingdao Beer City, Dolphinarium and Ocean Park, are in the range of Hong Kong Road. Meanwhile, for combining all these scenic spots, their signs are at the intersections. On this road, you can see a lot of new buildings. They are Xinhua Bookstore, Qingdao International Finance Center, Qingdao Jusco shopping mall, Carrefour supermarket etc. We can also see many star hotels. The five-star hotels are Qingdao Hai Tian Hotel, Great Regency Hotel, Qilin Crown Hotel, Shangri-la Hotel etc. The four-star hotels are Equatorial Hotel, Huanghai Hotel, Gold Coast Hotel etc. From Zhongshan Road, Zhengyangguan Road to High-Tech Park along Hong Kong Road heading eastward, you will be greeted by magnificent meadow and various gardens, which matain their natural state. Abundant natural scenery spots and modern infrastructure together create a harmonious environment. It presents the modern elements and natural parks. In addition, city sculptures are on both sides of the road. The road is the reflection of the rich cultural connotations. It?s showing the internal quality of the city modernization. Ribbon This set of sculptures which lie on the north of the road was named Ribbons. They just create a festival atmosphere. They are the symbols of the hospitality. Ocean University of China & Qingdao University Now we will enter the education area on Hong Kong Road, the north area is Ocean University of China (the Maidao Campus). And the area near the OUC is Qingdao University. Sprout, Green Growth & Running In front of the OUC entrance are three sets of sculptures. Respectively their names are Sprouts, Green Growth and Running. They are representing the growing process of the younger generation. The younger generation is actively creating a brighter future with unremitting efforts. Fushan Mountain Maidao Campus of OCU and Qingdao University lie at the foot of Fushan Mountain, which is located in the north of Old Stone Man Tourist Resorts, one mile from the sea. Fushan Mountain is the extension range of the Laoshan Mountain. It extends 5 miles from east to west and 2 miles across. It covers an area of 7.5 square kilometers in total. Its highest peak is 367.4 meters high. The nine peaks of Fushan Mountain surrounded by cloud and mist. It seems like the islands floating above the sea level. Fushan Mountain Granite Fushan Mountain is widely known home and abroad for another reason that is it produces high quality granite. Its granite was used in the construction of the People?s Hero Monument, Chairman Mao Memoriam Hall and Japanese Big Buddha Temple etc. The granite is divided into two main categories including the red one and off-white one. The hardness of the granite is very hard. To protect the ecological environment of Fushan Mountain, Qingdao city municipal government had carried out full closed preservation restriction on stone quarrying and real estate development. Kang Youwei Tomb The Tomb of Mr. Kang Youwei is also located in this Mountain. Mr. Kang Youwei, one of the latter Qing Dynasty intellectuals and the leader of “Hundred Day Reform”, is no stranger to us. We have already visited his former residence, and his tomb lies in the sunside of Fushan Mountain. Its surroundings is very beautiful for wonderful landscape. Mr. Kang Youwei?s Tomb was surrounded by Fushan Campus of OUC (Ocean University of China), Qingdao University and Qingdao Party School. Qingdao International Finance Center The high-rise ahead is Qingdao International Financial Centre, an international A Grade high technical mansion, located at the intersection of Fuzhou Road and Hongkong Road. It covers a gross area of more than 100,000 square meters, with 58 stories in total and its height is 249 meters. It could be considered as “Qilu Top 1 Building”, a representative building of reform and opening up of Qingdao and its economic development. The mansion adopts advanced architecture technology, with no inner pillars and no crossbeams in the offices. Business halls and offices are under its 16th floor, and over 17th floor are advanced office floors. Star-Watchers Square Star-watchers Square is located at the cross of Hong Kong Mid road and the Yan?an 3rd Road, which is the first square that can be used for observing astronomical phenomena in the day and night. The main sculpture is the ancient Chinese astronomical instruments----armillary sphere. Around the square, it is a set of copperplate relieves about 12 constellations, which were designed by European classical artists. Happy Dancing The group sculpture, located at the junction of the Fotao Road entitled “Happy dancing”. A red butterfly makes up a warm, romantic and joyful scene. Beautiful sculptures, beautiful streets and the beautiful city bring joy to people. Dialogue This group called “dialogue” sculptures were built at the beginning of Hong Kong Road and Zhengyang Road. Designers used rustic materials and simple modeling to describe a permanent principal----“love”. The sculpture is not only simple but also generous, giving people warm and peaceful feelings. The authors used this sculpture to express their own understanding of Qingdao. It has a far-reaching meaning to use the sculpture “dialogue” to express human beings, city and the world. Life Inspiration This group of nest like sculptures, which lies at the junction of Shaoguan Road, is named “Implication of life”. The nest symbolizes “home”, which tells that the existence of life is lasting. Nest shows the instinct of life. From another aspect, when people are improving the environment for survival, the human?s friends----birds have been continuously losing their homes. The three eggs show people the following inspirations----protecting the environment, respecting nature and treasuring life. Historical Evolution This group of sculptures, which were built in the construction of Hong Kong Road and Rongcheng Road is named Historical Evolution. Different materials are used to show the historic evolution. Vicissitudes of 100 years In the eastside of the main entrance of Zhongshan Park, there is a sculpture “vicissitudes of 100 years”. To commemorate Hongkong returning to our motherland in 1997, Qingdao government was determined to rename the original Zhanshan Main road and Zhanshan Road into Hong Kong Road. This sculpture symbolizes one country, two systems policy achievement in today?s reunion. 11.3 Donghai Road Donghai Road is one of the most beautiful roads in Qingdao at present. It begins from Taipingjiao Liu Road and ends at Stone Old Man. Its total length is 12.8 kilometers. A Brief Introduction of Donghai Road At the beginning of 1997, Qingdao municipal government decided to build Donghai Road into a top-class one. The project of building Donghai Road was started in January 1997 and completed in December 1997. Its total investment is RMB 270 million yuan. 26 famous colleges and design departments worked out more than 1,200 schemes. The final scheme was elected by voting. At that time, Ye Rutang, vice minister of the National Urban Sculpture Committee, Wang Keqing, the professor of Central Academy of Art and 13 well-known experts acted as the judges. It featured four broad categories sculpture, a landmark sculpture, theme sculpture and saint sculpture. Experts believed that “the environment of Donghai Road is excellent. The sculpture project aimed high and the vision is wide”. The judges agreed that the Donghai Road Sculpture, from the number, size and even the level of works of art in the country had been unprecedented. And it is the first sculptures on the theme of Landscape Avenue. To some extent, it represents the contemporary level of China?s sculptures. Donghai Road is 14 meters wide, and the sidewalks on both sides are 5 meters, and each side of the green road is 10 meters, with a total width of 44 meters. Heaven & Earth and No. 1 Park Area The sculpture is called “Heaven and Earth”, the most representative use of human hands and feet, symbolizing the essence of human development, the strength of feeling. Next, we see that these 12 pillars called “century promenade”, which takes 5,000 years of Chinese history and splendid culture as a theme, each column is carved on the integrity of the historical stories and historical figures. A total of 11 parks and 48 groups of sculptures are on Donghai Road. As we have seen, the Heaven & Earth and 1st Century Avenue are also known as Haitao Park. No. 2 Park Area What we will see is the second park, Hai Qu Yuan. Because it?s close to Children Community Centre, the works are in accordance with the aesthetic characteristics of children, so as to promote the theme of Chinese civilization. Combining the sculpture design and Chinese traditional virtues of stories together, this park provides a relaxed, lively and beautiful environment of moral base. In the sculpture Park, more than 10 sculptures are well-known as children?s legends No. 3 Park Area The following is the 3rd park, called Haifeng Park. To show their long history of the Chinese nation, the works were designed to use the Qilu culture as the theme. The main sculptures are “Confucius and his students”, “Mencius”, “Sun Wu”, “Hanfeizi”, “Mencius Lecture”, “Confucius”, “100 Scholars” and so on.. No. 4 Park Area Next, our car enters into the 4th park - May 4 Square (see "May 4 Square"). No. 6 Park Area This is the 6th park, called Haiyun Park. We can see this sculpture at first glance. It looks like three pieces of seaweed plant, but a beautiful outlook at the sheer and dynamism is strong. This is the representative work of the park?s "”Three Gods of Beauty”. The main basis of the park?s construction preserves its characteristics, in order to protect the natural landscape features as the base, and make full use of rock, sand and vegetation to create a distinctive open space. No. 7 Park Area On the left side of our car is the 7th park, which is a peculiar wall made by some kinds of natural stones and plants. It comes to be a beautiful view line for Donghai Road. No. 8 Park Area Now we come to the 8th park. It?s Qingdao Sculpture Park. The Park covers an area of 80,000 square meters, including indoor sculpture Museum and outdoor Sculpture Park, and the interior architecture cottage area is more than 3,800 meters. Recent and modern sculpture works are mainly collected here. There are many excellent outdoor sculpture works displayed here. The green field layout area is 60,000 square meters, and total investment is RMB 40 million yuan. There is a square for leisure, ponds, artificial spring falls, virescence and all kinds of sculptures. There are cobblestone paths, boulevards and a sculpture museum. The sculpture museum, QDSM (Qingdao Sculpture Museum), which was founded in May 2000, is the main building in the park. It was made from the granite. The outline of the museum is very special. It is a two-story building. Many exhibitions on the sculpture art are often held here. Qingdao Sculpture Park is a shining pearl on Donghai Road. QDSM is specialized in collecting and exhibiting excellent sculpture works. The combination of the humanism feature and natural surroundings is really an excellent art. The park is also an outstanding one among all galleries in China. The sculpture works in park area 9, 10 and 11 Now we?re passing by section 9. It has a group of granite relievo works whose theme is “Sunshine, Beach and Sea”. The representative work in section 10 is a granite sculpture work named “Song of Youth”. The work embodies the abstract seashell, which is the characteristic of this beautiful costal city. The sculpture work----Blue Sail, is just a metaphor that Qingdao is like a sailboat, which will sail to the brilliant future. Apart from the mentioned works, there are a lot of rather small works such as “Rhyme”, “Moonlight Song”, “Favonian Bird” etc. 11.4 Qingdao Liuting International Airport Qingdao Liuting International Airport subordinates to Qingdao International Airport Group. Formerly, Qingdao International Airport Group was just a branch of China Civil Aviation in Qingdao. And it was founded in July, 1958. On August 5, 1982, approved by General Office of the State Council and Central Military Commission, the reconstruction of the airport in Liuting was started. This was a brand new start for civil aviation of Qingdao. Ever since then, Qingdao Liuting International Airport has been supported by General Administration of Civil Aviation of China and local government. With the trend of economic development in Qingdao, Qingdao Liuting International Airport has made a huge progress. The airport had been widened. The flights and the airlines had been increased as well. In 2006, its civil aviation?s handling capacity of the passenger had reached 6,790,000 persons. The rank had been pushed forward from No. 13 to No. 12. The civil aviation?s handling capacity of cargo and mail had reached over 100,000 tons. All the numbers show that Qingdao Liuting International Airport held a leading role in Shandong civil aviation. So far, besides the bases of China Eastern Airlines and Shandong Airlines, Air China, China Southern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Hainan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Asian Airlines, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines and other 20 airlines have set the branches in Qingdao. Non-state owned airlines like Spring Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Eaststar Airlines have already set their branches here, too. By now, Qingdao Liuting International Airport has 78 domestic airlines and 14 international airlines, which connect 47 cities in China and 8 foreign cities. There are over 1,400 periodical flights per week. According to the information, the flight between Qingdao and Khabarovsk had been realized by 2007. Dxinhua Express Plan is to connect the airway among Tianjin, Qingdao and Ningbo. Aokai Airway Plan is to connect the cities among Beijing, Qingdao and Hangzhou. By the end of this year, the cargo delivery flights between Qingdao and Occident will be opened. By then, the network of Qingdao Liuting International Airport will be better. During these 20 years, Qingdao Liuting International Airport has not only been making an effort to develop itself, but also gained the harvest of material and ideology. In recent years, Qingdao Liuting International Airport had won a lot of awards, such as national Sanitation Award, National Civilized Airport Award, Qingdao Civilized Model Award, East China Top Civilized Airport Award etc. It was highly praised by the administration and local government as well. New Qingdao Liuting International Airport The expand project of Qingdao Liuting International Airport had been formally set out from 2001. According to the design, new airport has the handling capacity of 5,200,000 passengers, hush hour capacity of 2,400 passengers, the capacity of cargo and mail of 119,000 tons. The length of the runways will be increased from 2,600 to 3,400 meters. The terminal station area is 64,000 square meters. The new aircraft parking area is 184,000 square meters. The car parking area is 26,000 square meters. The cargo area is 10,000 square meters. The communication facility, pilot facility, and weather facility were refurnished. The fuel system, electricity system, water system and sewage system were set up as well as the fire fighting facility. The second phase project of Qingdao Liuting International Airport had been finished in 2007. The outline of the terminal station is unique. The shell-shape design embodies its grace and elegance. The terminal station is applied the construction technologies of the wide span steel structure and wide glass wall. It looks very powerful. The terminal station is a four-story building, which has two stories under the ground and two stories above the ground. There are connecting walls in certain places. They are the ticket rooms, waiting rooms, entry rooms, exit rooms and luggage rooms. The length of the terminal station is 350 meters from south to north. Its width is 96 meters. Its height is 29.85 meters. The construction?s total layout area is 100,000 square meters. The terminal station?s main construction area is 56,000 square meters. And the parking area is 44,000 square meters where can hold about 1,200 cars. The expand project of Qingdao Liuting International Airport will greatly improve the passenger capacity. The project is to meet the increasing need by 2030 as well as the Olympic Games in 2008. Now the yearly passenger capacity of Qingdao Liuting International Airport has reached to 12,000,000 passengers. 11.5 Qingdao Railway Station Qingdao Railway Station is one of the most special railway stations in China. It is special for its unique history and architecture. The location of Qingdao Railway Station is unique for its splendid sea view. Location and History of Qingdao Railway Station Qingdao Railway Station, which has a history of more than 100 years, lies in the east end of Jiaoji Railway. It connects most railways to the outside. Before German occupied Qingdao, for the commercial benefits, German had begun to plan to build the railways to the inland of China. After the invasion, German raised the fund of 54 millions Deutsche Mark to invest building the railway from Jiao?ao (name is given by Qing Dynasty) to Jinan. Meanwhile, Qing Dynasty invested 400,000 liang silver. Two sides invested the railway. German government invested 12 million Deutsche Mark to set up a mine company，Dehua Mine Company. The company exploited the mineral resources, which are near the railway. The east part of this railway was built in 1899. The railway was finished building in June, 1904. The length of this railway is 394 km Since then, Jiaoji Railway had become the main transportation line in Shandong province. A lot of buildings, German style architecture, were built along the railway then. One of them is the unique architecture we are going to introduce, Qindao Railway Station. On February 1, 1988, the reconstruction of Qingdao Railway Station was activated. On February 15, 1991, the reconstruction of the waiting-room building was activated. On July 1, 1992, the reconstruction of the square of station was activated. On August 8, 1994, the underground construction of the station square was completed ahead of schedule. After 12 years using the station, it was closed for the rebuilding on November 19, 2006. A new station will have been built by the end of June of 2008. There will be a representative architecture standing in front of us. Operation Condition of Qingdao Railway Station After the millennium, the station had started accelerating the speed of reform and development. Qingdao station has 26 start passenger lines, 28 network ticket agencies. Booking tickets can be realized by dialing a phone. Qingdao station has 22 start cargo lines which can transport all kinds of cargoes. Each year, 4 million passengers and 2.6 million tons cargoes can be delivered. Qingdao Railway Station was given National Sanitation Award, National Civilized Station Award, Brand Station, 4 Star Goods Shelf of 2002, Qingdao Railway Station won AAA Station prize and Honesty and Good Service Award. Qingdao Railway Station had serially won the first prizes of Labor Skill Competition. The New Qingdao Railway Station The new one will be a specialized passenger-use railway station. The new station will be a terminal of express line on the Jiaoji Railway. High Speed Train and other high-class trains will play an important part. The second passenger-use railway station will be built between Cangkou Station and Jiaozhou Bay Highway. The second station will take care of delivering the middle or long range passengers. As we know, in order to rebuild the station, Qindao has invested 850 million RMB. The construction of the new station will be completed by the end of June 2008. The rail tracks of the station can hold 10 trains at the same time. The station can carry 40,000 passengers per day. Until then, the number of passengers will be as twice as it is now. According to the plan, the whole project includes the square, terminal building and tracks area. Its terminal building?s overlook will be looking like a „U?. The waiting lobbies will lie under the ground. The ticket offices will stand on both sides of the terminal building. The terminal building can be used for 100 years. In the middle of the terminal station, there will be a 65,000 square meters free-poles area. There will be a canopy cover this area. And there will be solar generators installing on the canopy. After being rebuilt, Qingdao Railway Station will be a modern city railway station which connects the lines to the other places. It will be harmonic to combine the reserved belfry building into the modern architectures. It will embody the traditional and modern values of Qingdao. 11.6 Port of Qingdao Port of Qingdao was established in 1892. Till now, it has a history of 115 years. Located in the Yellow River basin and on the western Pacific Rim, Port of Qingdao is an important hub of international trade and sea-going transportation. The Port has established trade relations with over 450 ports in more than 130 countries and areas. Port of Qingdao has three port areas: Old Port Area, Huangdao Oil Port Area and Qianwan New Port. As a port offering comprehensive services, it can handle a variety of general and bulk cargo, and project equipment. Container, coal, iron ore, crude oil and grain are the five major cargo types of the port, and it also handles fertilizer, alumina, cement, sodium carbonate, rubber, wool pulp, cotton, ironware, lumber, and extra-large shipment. In 2006, the port achieved a record volume of 224.15 million tons. Its foreign trade volume has exceeded 168.33 million tons, the second largest in Mainland China. Situated on the eastern end of the new Continental Bridge, Port of Qingdao is the first and largest transshipment port for international boxes, and the top reefer container port. A traffic volume of 7.702 million TEU was recorded in 2006. This placed the Port at the 14th in the world in terms of throughput. Because of its history, enterprise culture, facilities and staffs, the Port has its special scenery. The travel route is devised by “see the history of Qingdao port in Old Port Area” and “see the development and oceanic feature of Qingdao port at Qianwan New Port”. Qingdao Old Port Area According to the layout of Port of Qingdao, Old Port Area will become modern port for tourism. Based on the sightseeing, trade, transportation and culture, lots of scenic spots are built. Fenjin, which is a red copper statue, is for commemorating the 100th anniversary of Port of Qingdao. Friendship Garden represents Port of Qingdao connecting the world. The Two Return Salmons, a fir statue, is a gift, which was sent by the sister port of Seattle. Port of Wilhelmshaven, the second largest port in Germany, sent Navigation Mark to Port of Qingdao. Port of Shimizu sent the status----Swimming in the Fairyland. Port of Kochi sent the status, Long Tail Golden Pheasant. Walking up to Fenjin Tower is the best way to enjoy the scenery of Old Port Area. Yingbin Square is built for commemorating 110th anniversary of Port of Qingdao. Asian Horizontal Altitude Spot can be seen while standing on this square. Qingao Port History Expo is named as the base of patriotic education by Shandong Government. Century Dock is the largest bulk dock in China. Striding Clock represents the high efficiency the staff has. Dock 3 is for the navy. The status, Integrating into the World, and some special spots are here as well. For the guest-visits, the LED screen, light tunnel and giant lanterns were decorated here. When guests visit here, the atmosphere makes them feel like they were in the dream. Dock 6 is the only one dock that has cargo and passenger transport functions. There are three international ships, which are Ideal County of Japan, New Golden Bridge of Inchon of Korea and Sewon 1 of Busan of Korea. Huangdao New Port Area Huangdao New Port Area has two parts. One is Huangdao Oil Port Area; the other is Qianwan New Port. The total layout area of these two ports is 7 square kilometers. Qianwan New Port has the crude oil and iron ore berths which are over 200,000 tons grade. It also has the largest container port in China. Since the strategy of developing western Qingdao was made, Port of Qingdao has been a booming hub port in Northern China. No sooner Port of Qingdao had focused on developing western port area than Qingdao municipality had a new propose, Wanguo Docks. It meant that the operations of Port of Qingdao needed to be updated with the world. On July 21, 2003, the Qingdao Port (Group) Co. Ltd signed a contract in The Great Hall of the People of Beijing with the A.P. Moller Maersk Group of Denmark, P&O of Britain, and the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO), investing 887 million US dollars jointly to regroup its Qianwan container dock into the largest in China. The jointly-run Qianwan container dock will have ten deepwater berths for container vessels along the 3,400 meter-long coastline when expansion is completed, as well as the ability to receive huge container vessels carrying 10,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUS) of containers, with the annual handling capacity exceeding 6.5 million TEUS. On January 9, 2004, Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal, QQCT Co. Ltd was established formally. According to the Qingdao Port, 25 new shipping lines have been launched that year from Qingdao to the whole world. The latest statistics that year showed that Qingdao port handled approximately 2.087 million TEUS of containers in this first half year, surging a rise of 28 percent year-on-year. The Maersk Group moved its headquarters of China to Qingdao. It is a brand new prospect of Port of Qingdao. Through the visit of the Port of Qingdao, everyone can feel the matchless charisma of Port of Qingdao. Xu Zhenchao and Zhenchao Spirit Xu Zhenchao was born in 1950. When he was 24, he was employed at Qingdao Port and acted as a worker of terminal. Ever since then, he has worked at Qindao Port for 35 years. He used to do many kinds of jobs. No matter what the job he was doing, he always tried his best to finish it well. At the night of April 27, 2003, the international large ship “MSC FLAMINIA” pulled in the port, and 3,400 containers needed handling. Xu Zhenchao encouraged and cheered up all the people that: “our workers are the pillar of the terminal, so we must work hard and make a good showing for our Chinese people.” Then, 8 bridge cranes lined up in a row, lifted up 8 containers, and laid down all of the eight containers gently all most at the same time. Though 6 hours and 27 minutes? hard-fought work, the bridge crane team created the world record for single ship handling efficiency at 339 natural containers. In 2004, he created the world record for single ship handling efficiency again. The world was shocked. In April 2004, 18 news agencies reported Xu Zhenchao?s story. Most drivers in the bridge crane team were unskilled new comers. Xu Zhenchao said to them, “We live on this job, so we should exert the utmost strength to create the world brand.” Coming off work, he kept on writing and writing until late at night. Several days later, he put the manual of bridge crane in the front of everybody. All drivers of the team began to study and train hard, and they finished apprenticeship within half a year one after another. This manual filled the domestic blank and became the teaching materials for some universities and colleges. He and his team members worked against the time from every operating course. It is written in the direction that it takes 5 seconds to reach the highest speed per hour when the bridge crane starts. But Xu Zhenchao put forward that 3.5 seconds was enough after calculation. Some of the drivers did not approve and questioned “Does that really matter to squeeze out 1.5 seconds?” However, Xu Zhenchao said: “if there are 1,000 containers, 25 minutes will be saved in that way.” With the hardworking and committed spirit, Xun Zhenchao became a real bridge crane expert. 11.6 Qindao Bus Station Qingdao lies within a well-developed motorway network formed by nine expressways including Jinan-Qingdao, Jiaozhou Bay, Xiliu, Xiazhuang-Shuangbu, Weifang-Laiyang, Tongjiang-Sanya, Qingdao-Yinchuan, 206 National Highway and Qianwan. The 8 passenger coach stations in the urban area of Qingdao City supply a frequent buses to the around cities and regions in Shandong Province. The 8 passenger coach stations in the urban area of Qingdao City supply a frequent buses to the around cities and regions in Shandong Province. On the other hand, the nearby cities in the other provinces also can be reached from Qingdao Easily.The newest one is Qingdao Bus Station, which is located at No.2, Wenzhou Road, Qingdao City.Before the Olympics in 2008, the government invested 50 million RMB to renovated the former Qingdao Bus Station. That renovating project finished in August of 2008. The new bus station is sleek and modern. Its outline is like a open scallop.