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9 unusual facts about Qingdao


Bandao Broadcasting Media Corporation

Bandao Broadcasting Media Corporation (半岛传媒股份有限公司) is a news and broadcasting agency headquartered in Qingdao, China.

Brantly B-2

Ltd., a joint venture between Brantly International Inc, Qingdao Wenquan International Aviation Investment Co., Ltd, and Qingdao Brantly Investment Consultation Co., Ltd.

Chang'e 1

The probe was remotely controlled from stations at Qingdao and Kashgar, as the first use of the Chinese Deep Space Network.

Ocean Heaven

The movie was filmed in Qingdao at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World and received promotion from the Qingdao council.

Pim Nieuwenhuis

Nieuwenhuis as crew on the Dutch Tornado with Mitch Booth as helmsman took 5th place during the 2008 Olympics, in Qingdao.

Qingdao Golf Open

It was held in 2008 at the Qingdao Huashan Golf & Resort, in Qingdao.

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm

However, whereas Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized widow in Qingdao.

Ulva prolifera

China had its largest recorded bloom of the algae in 2013, in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Qingdao.


Battle of Coronel

The Royal Navy—with assistance from other Allied navies in the far east—had captured the German colonies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Yap, Nauru and Samoa early in the war, instead of searching for Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee's German East Asia Squadron which had abandoned its base at the German concession at Tsingtao in China once Japan entered the war on Britain's side.

Cangzhou West Railway Station

Platforms 1 and 2 are used for trains to Ji'nan, Qingdao and Shanghai Hongqiao; platforms 3 and 4 are used for services to Beijing South and Tianjin West.

Faxian

After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China; but, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landed at Laoshan, in what is now the Shandong peninsula, in northern China, 30 km east of the city of Qingdao.

Francis D. Rauber

Arriving in Guam, Mariana Islands in May 1948, he served in this capacity until November, and in Tsingtao and Shanghai China until April 1949, when he returned to Camp Witek, Guam.

Haier

The Qingdao government hired a young assistant city-manager, Zhang Ruimin, responsible for a number of city-owned appliance companies.

Jiang Ning

After becoming a regular for Qingdao, Jiang Ning would soon be called up for the Chinese under-23 national team and took part in the 2007 Lunar New Year Cup and the 2007 Toulon Tournament.

Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport

By road, the airport is connected to the Jinan Ring (济南绕城高速公路), Beijing–Shanghai, and Qingdao–Yinchuan Expressways.

Konrad Knopp

Knopp traveled widely in Asia, taking teaching jobs in Nagasaki, Japan (1908-9), at the Handelshochschule, and in Qingdao, China (1910–11), at the German-Chinese academy there, and spending some time in India and China following his stay in Japan.

Lao She

Between his return to China in the spring of 1930 until 1937, he taught at several universities, including Cheeloo University and Shandong University (Qingdao).

Matsuda Chiaki

The cruise began at Sasebo and took him to the ports of Osaka, Shimizu, Maizuru, Incheon, Zhenhai, Dalian, Lushun, Weihaiwei and Qingdao.

Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc

With two weeks to go they got a job to carry coals from Qingdao, China across the Yellow Sea to Tobata and Oita, Japan.


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