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7 unusual facts about Changchun


2012 Chinese Figure Skating Championships

They were between September 20 and September 23, 2011 in Changchun.

Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen

Her best result in those races was a 10th place in the freestyle sprint in Changchun, China where she lost in the semi final, having had the third best qualifying time.

Audi 100

The C3-platform Audi 100 was also produced in Changchun, China, by FAW (First Automobile Works, a Chinese automotive manufacturer), for many years during the 1990s.

Chinese Dream Show

In the end of Season 3, Li Yan and Man Lingling, a couple from Changchun, Jilin Province won the show, which is called winning "the Most Popular Dreamer".

Shinkyo

Shinkyō (新京), the Japanese name of the capital of former pupper-state Manchukuo

Vicenç Vilarrubla

His best World Championships result is a 27th place at the 15 km event in Oberstdorf in 2005, and his best World Cup result is a 17th place at a 15 km event in Changchun in 2007.

Wilma Olson

During her time at Rutgers, she was a visiting professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland (1979–1980) and at the Polymer Chemistry Department of the Jilin University in Changchun, China (1981).


Beijing Subway rolling stock

Currently, all trains on Lines 2, 5, 8, 10, 13, Airport Express and older models on Line 1 are made by Changchun RVC, which is under contract to supply trains for Lines Yizhuang, 9 and 10 (Phase II).

Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University

BSPU has solid relations with many Chinese educational institutions: Heihe Institute,Changchun University, Harbin Pedagogical University, Harbin University, Far-Eastern University of Finances and Economics, Daqing Pedagogical Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Language and Culture and others.

Carl Joachim Classen

He also was visiting professor in Changchun (1992), Tartu (1994 and 1996), Rome (1995 and 1997) and visiting member at the All Souls College, Oxford (1980) an the Merton College, Oxford (1995).

Du Zhenyu

The 2007 league season was to prove the most successful for Du Zhenyu as he played a significant part in the title-winning Changchun Yatai team, subsequently winning the Footballer of the Year award in the process.

FAW-Volkswagen

The headquarters of FAW-VW, which consists of two car plants is located in the south-western fringes of Changchun, Jilin Province, the third car plant has been built in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the fourth car plant will be built in Foshan, Guangdong Province.

Jilin City

Jilin Railway Station is on the East-West Changchun-Tumen Railway mainline and provides convenient access to many cities around China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Jinan, Hangzhou.

Kuancheng District

In May 1898, as Russians were building a railway from Harbin to Lüshun (the southern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway), Kuancheng became the location of Changchun's first railway station.

The next station to the south - the new "Japanese" Changchun station, just a short distance to the south - became the first station of the South Manchuria Railway, which now owned all the tracks running farther south, to Lüshun.

Li Yuqin

She worked in a textile factory and in a library in Changchun, studying the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

Lü Fuyuan

After graduated from Jilin University with a degree in Physics, Lü worked for several years in the First Automobile Works in Changchun, and then studied at the Université de Montréal in Canada during 1981 and 1983; but later, he refused the offer to stay in Canada.

Shao Changchun

Shao Changchun, (Simplified Chinese: 邵常淳; born in Nanning, Guangxi,1965) He is a famous non-governmental diplomat, famous international event organizer, violin collector and maker, independent.

South Manchuria Railway

The last station remaining in Russian hands was Kuancheng (Kuanchengtze, in contemporary spelling); the first Japanese station was Changchun.

According to the agreement, Russian gauge tracks would continue from the "Russian" Kuancheng Station to the "Japanese" Changchun Station, and vice versa, tracks on the "gauge adapted by the South Manchuria Railway" (i.e., the standard gauge) would continue from the Changchun Station to the Kuancheng Station.

Willow Palisade

According to the Japanese traveler Inaba Iwakichi, who went through Weiyuanbao gate (in the eastern section of the system, near its junction with the other two sections near Kaiyuan) in 1907, and then again several years later through a gate in the Outer Palisade near Shibeiling (south of Changchun), there was nothing for him to see but a few old tree stumps.

Winter Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China

In order to completely cut the link between Changchun and Shenyang, the communist decided to take Siping (city) by redeploying the 1st column, the 3rd column and the 7th column on February 29, 1948 from southern Liaoning to Siping (city), while the communist 2nd column, 6th column, 8the column, and the 10th column were already deployed two days ago on February 27, 1948 to Changtu and Kaiyuan to stop any possible nationalist reinforcement to the city.


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