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| | | | Things have been really heating up in the lead up to this summer in Yantai, including the lightning-pace of construction, vigorous inward investment, accelerating economic development, exhilarating nightlife and of course the ever sizzling bikini's at Golden Beach! Yantai's rise in popularity as one of China's top tourist destinations is really putting this seaside city on the map. Last year about 12 million tourists arrived in Yantai, including over 100,000 from overseas. As the second largest City in Shandong Province by population and economy, it is not difficult to imagine that Yantai will be transformed to a modern and thriving international community within the next few years. And for expats living in this city, it won't be long before Yantai catches up with similar port cities such as Qingdao and Ningbo on its "internationalisation" course. Already the keen-eyed and fast-moving Asian investors have recognised this city of opportunity, most of the expat community are Korean or Japanese nationals . There are about 12,000 Koreans in Yantai and 7,000 Japanese. According to reliable sources, the number of Westerners is now about 500, and expanding every week! Yantai's total population is close to 7 million. Recent major foreign investors include Taiwan-based Foxconn (Honhai Group) which is moving much of its telecom components manufacturing from Shenzhen in southern China to Yantai's Economic Development Zone, and the Philippines-based port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), which has recently taken over the Yantai Gangtong Container Terminal. Other significant arrivals are Nomacorc (a promising Belgium-USA new investment in Yantai Development Zone) as well as VMI from Netherlands in who have established operations at Yantai's new Economic Processing Zone (EPZ-B), Agrati from Italy in Laishan District, Baudet Composites from France also in Laishan, and more on the way as we speak . . . . . . . . . Clearly the focus of Shandong Province investment policy has shifted from Jinan, (capital of Shandong Province) and Qingdao, which have previously received most of the economic development support. Yantai's GDP has risen from 16.8% in 2005 to 17.0% in 2007, third highest in Shandong Province behind only Dezhou and Zaozhuang. A Superb Ramada 5 stars Hotel is now open in Laishan! With a great Western Buffet! Plans for a new Crown Plaza "6 Star Hotel" and leading global brands such as Justco and Starbucks to arrive in Laishan next year further indicate the city is really galvanised for internationalisation. So as an expat living in or coming to Yantai, hang on tight and catch that wave ! The Editor
Yantai-Life Communications
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Update from Yantai Investment Development Bureau | | | Yantai has an exceptional quality of life and infrastructure, with an outstanding position in the centre of North East Asia between Beijing , Shanghai , Dalian , Seoul, Tokyo, and Osaka. Yantai is a large and prosperous region covering 14,000 Sq.Km., with close to 7 million people, and including 13 Cities and Districts. Key sectors of activities are Agriculture, Agribusiness, Shipyards, Wineries, Light Industries, Automotive industries (GM and scores of international subcontractors), large Gas and Petrol resources in Bohai Bay, High Tech, Research Laboratories, Textiles, Granite, Gold, Electronics, Fine Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals, Tourism, and Fish-farming (900 km of coast line). Yantai has plenty of affordable and available land, space, as well as a talented work force. Yantai is enjoying one of the best qualities/costs ratio in China, as per Economist Experts. Yantai is now the 18th biggest Economy in China and the 2nd in Shandong. Shandong Province is now second place in China in terms of GDP. Not only does Yantai have these natural resources but it is still a very cost effective place to be located in China. Last year, the World Bank, after surveying 120 Chinese Cities and 12,400 manufacturing firms in China, has ranked: Yantai among the 6 Golden Cities in China for its excellent investment climate, outstanding quality of life, natural environment, cost efficiency and harmonious society. CASS (China Academy of Social Sciences) has ranked Yantai number 8 in China. Both of these organizations reached these conclusions after evaluation of hundreds of Chinese Cities. Yantai is an ideal HUB for shipping and logistics. Yantai has a very large port (among the top 10 in China with an estimated annual shipment of 120 million tons) which links Yantai to over 100 ports all over the world. 7,000 km of brand-new highways have been completed inside Yantai Region. Yantai's International and Domestic Airports have 320 flights per week linking Yantai to many Cities in China and overseas: It is very easy to fly from Beijing (1 hour) or Shanghai (1.5 hours) to Yantai with several flights per day. From Seoul it is even closer, only 45 minutes (with several flights per day): Other flights include Osaka: three days per week; and Hong Kong: four days per week. Yantai has excellent Education resources with 7 Universities, 16 Technical Colleges , 100,000 students, more than 100 Foreign Teachers and Professors. And as far as healthcare is concerned, Yantai has several First Class Hospitals (including Yantai Shan Hospital and Yuhuangding Hospital). Kindly Contributed by: Michel Humbert
Senior Adviser ' Yantai IDB Investment Development Board
www.yantaifdi.gov.cn
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ACCW Seashore Leisure Zone Opens in Autumn | | | Opening this Autumn, AMBER COASTAL CITY WALK has been designed to bring to Yantai a unique combination of shopping, entertainment and nightlife, with western style bars, restaurants and a clean and comfortable seafront environment which maintains its natural cultural heritage. This will be like Shanghai's Shintiandi but 5 times the size, with a beautiful sea view and a lot more fun for all the family in Shandong! THE AMBER COASTAL CITY WALK covers an area of 150,000 square meters, with a construction space of over 46,000 square meters. It is a multinational multi-functional shopping center presented with a spectacular natural landscape. ACCW faces the beautiful ocean waters of the Bohai Bay near the coast of YANTAI. Along with the surrounding areas known as the YANTAI HILL, it has long been the window and symbol of the city. Although a culturally traditional city, the presence of 19th century European and American architecture is prevalent at the AMBER COASTAL CITY WALK.
For an internationalized commercial project like the AMBER COASTAL CITY WALK, its market positioning and business function planning is essential for success. This area will inevitably become the leading state-of the-art commercial complex that matches the high-end consumption needs of the community. The AMBER COASTAL CITY WALK systematically combines shopping, entertainment, restaurants, and bars. It successfully integrates various business functions with the unification of admirable environment advantages. The ACCW brings to Yantai a western style community center while maintaining its natural cultural heritage. The ACCW shopping center creates a "one-stop" shopping environment, providing an unforgettable shopping, leisure and entertainment experience for all consumers.
Situated in the middle of a bustling business district and residential area, AMBER COASTAL CITY WALK is designed to fulfill consumers' pursuit of shopping and leisure activities. ACCW is designed as an open-air "street-oriented" venue devoted to upscale international chain stores, "New Generation" department stores and supermarket, sporting goods shops, book and media stores, electronic stores, and home accessories stores. Family entertainment venues, renowned restaurants, and lively nightclubs create a leisure destination suitable to fit the needs of citizens from all walks of life. 
Artist Impression of ACCW Binhai Square in Future 
Please follow the link for an extended Phototour: Binhai Square (Future ACCW Leisure Zone)
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Summer of 2007 - Bar Street Gets a Makeover
Anybody that is thinking about heading down to Chaoyang Street (a.k.a. "Chaoyang Jie", "Bar Street" or "Jiu Ba Jie") for a quiet beer or even a boisterous night out, is in for a bit of a shock these days, whether they have been there before or not! Chaoyang Street is right next to the base of Yantai Hill with the north end right at the Yantai Hill Park Entrance, and the south end at the intersection with Bei Ma Lu (Beima Road), not far away from the Changyu Wine Museum. With a fair number of varied bars, karaoke lounges, internet cafes, small Chinese restaurants and tiny dubious "hair-dressers", Chaoyang Street is one of Yantai's main nightlife venues and is popular with both visitors and longer term residents. However, the Summer of 2007 has witnessed this old run-down street being completely dug up, new drainage put in, re-surfaced, buildings scaffolded and hammered, and mud and dust like you'd never believe. Walking down the street this month is treacherous, whether full of beer or empty. (Please see photos below). It literally looks as if a bomb has dropped on Chaoyang Street, or a grenade went off in a firework factory, and so thank goodness we still have other nightlife venues to go to: Alibaba's - "still goes on pumping", Jackie's - "keeps on rockin' and rollin'", Face Bar - "too good to be true in Yantai", Red Box Bar - "revamped and scorching hot", and the newly relocated Color Bar - "for those of such persuasions". But for those tough and faithful amongst us, the doors are still a-jar and the beers are still a-flowing at a few establishments including Havana Bar, and Bohemia Bar. And rumour has it that the dancing girls (and boys) are coming back on the tables and bars of Chaoyang Street before the Autumn comes. We raise our glasses to the prospect!! Back To Top
| | Chaoyang Street - The "Before Pictures"            
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| | Chaoyang Street - During the "Face-Lift"                        
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Chaoyang Street - The "After Pictures"Will be posted when the renovation project is complete. Back To Top |
| Advanced English Lessons (contributed by Gabe Regur) "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?)
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out) Back To Top
World Trivia (contributed by Gabe Regur)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is)
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.) Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Now you know everything!
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Caption Competition Please have a look at the 2 photographs below and then come up with the funniest caption you can think of to match the photographs. Please submit your answers before Sept 1st 2007 to yantai@yantai-life.com. The winner will be picked by the Yantai-Life panel of appointed competition judges. The prize will be a one way Shandong Airlines ticket anywhere within Shandong Province (insurance not included). The Winner will be announced in the next Wolf-Whistle !! 
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Announcements and Events | Event Announcement WHERE'S DA PARTY? ALIBABA'S 1 Year Anniversary ! Date: AUGUST 18TH Time: 8pm till you drop Address: Alibaba 阿里吧吧
Xiangyang Jie (by Huanshan Lu)
向阳街/环山路 (10 米路口北路东)
ph: 13553129733 or 13583579325 |      | Event Announcement 9TH YANTAI INTERNATIONAL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES EXPO A message from MICHEL HUMBERT,
SENIOR ADVISER, YANTAI INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT BOARD (IDB): My Chinese Colleagues and myself would like to draw your early attention to our important "9TH INTERNATIONAL FRUITS AND VEGETABLES EXPOSITION", which will be held in Yantai City (SHANDONG, CHINA) in our BRAND NEW SUPERB EXPOSITION PALACE as of SEPTEMBER 23 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 26: about 900 booths will be set up and hundreds of thousands visitors are expected. Our FIRST WINES FESTIVAL will take place at the same time, same Place. Exposition scope: Fine fruit/vegetable seeds and seedlings, cultivation technology and equipment, gardening facilities, harvesting and freshness-preserving storage equipments, machinery, aquaculture, fish farming, fruits and vegetables products, wineries, vinification, processing technology and equipments, packing materials and equipments, automatic controls, green-houses, new technologies and controlled atmospheres. YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO ATTEND THIS IMPORTANT EVENT The IDB team are at your disposal for any questions (our services free of charge). We encourage you to book your booths as soon as possible in order to get the best location, as you well know. Looking forward to the honor and the pleasure of hearing from you and of welcoming you in our enticing and buoyant Yantai City and Region, heartfelt gratitude for your attention and consideration. Meanwhile, please receive our best personal regards and sincere wishes. Gold Medal China National Friendship Award Receiver
Yantai City and Region Honorary Citizen
Senior Adviser
Yantai City and Region Investment Development Board IDB
SHANDONG CHINA
Web: www.yantaifdi.gov.cn
Tel: 00 86 535 62 64 034
Fax: 00 86 535 62 88 934
E-mail: ytidb@public.ytptt.sd.cn or mhidb@163169.net | Event Announcement 1ST YANTAI INTERNATIONAL WINES FESTIVAL: SEPT 23-26 URGENT URGENT : DEADLINE IS AUGUST 20 TO BOOK YOUR BOOTH ! ------------------------------------------------------------ FOR YOUR KIND INFORMATION AND REFERENCE : Dear Friends : you are most welcome to book a booth in our brand- new superb and huge International Exhibition Center. 800 US$ for each international standard booth ( 3m2 / 3m2 ) for all the duration of the Exhibition. Meanwhile, please receive our best personal regards and sincere wishes. Gold Medal China National Friendship Award Receiver
Yantai City and Region Honorary Citizen
Senior Adviser
Yantai City and Region Investment Development Board IDB
SHANDONG CHINA
Web: www.yantaifdi.gov.cn
Tel: 00 86 535 62 64 034
Fax: 00 86 535 62 88 934
E-mail: ytidb@public.ytptt.sd.cn or mhidb@163169.net | Event Announcement1st Yantai International Animation Art Festival Sponsored by the People’s Government of Yantai Municipality and the related departments directly under Shandong Provincial Government, P.R. China, and organized by Yantai Zhifu District Government and the executive committee of Shandong Network Animation Carnival, Yantai International Animation Art Festival will be held in Yantai International Exhibition Center, from August 24 to August 27, 2007. More than 100 Cartoon and software companies from 20 countries and regions, including Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, etc, will come and join in this festival, which covers creative works, Animation production, education, technologies, derivative products and other related animation industries. The festival also welcomes more domestic and oversea enterprises involved in Cartoon production, Broadcasting, network games, mobile games, and related software, derivative products development, etc. p/s: Please find the attached invitation letter below: Invitation Letter Date: July 26,2007 Dear Mr. / Miss: With the theme of "Creation, Cooperation and Development”, the First Yantai International Animation Art Festival & Network Animation Carnival of Shandong Province will be held in Yantai International Exhibition Center，from August 24 to August 27, 2007. In this significant event, many famous domestic and overseas animation and software companies involved in animation and cartoon production, publication, network game, related software development; and relevant associations and organizations, college and universities, industrial press and media institutions will gather in Yantai, China. The art festival will be a big gathering of animation culture, and a good opportunity for cooperation and development. You are now cordially invited to attend the fair! For your convenience of presenting this festival, after receiving this letter, please send the guest receipt to Art Festival Committee by means of fax or email before August 10, 2007, so we can make arrangement for your arrival and your visit schedule in Yantai, China. The first Yantai International Animation Art Festival Committee
Contact: Ms. Li Huili
Phone: 0535—6209008
Fax：0535—6209989
E-mail：wjzr2003@yahoo.com.cn | Event Announcement 4th Weihai International Habitat Festival
Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Weihai Municipality | Sep. 26th | - Registration
- Weihai Tour for famous merchants from Zhejiang
| | Sep. 27th | Morning: - Opening Ceremony of the 4th China Weihai International Habitat Festival and Celebration on the 20th Anniversary of Weihai Municipality.
- Inaugural Conference of the Sodality of Mayors from cities that have won the China Habitat Environment Award
- Sino-Korea (Weihai) Trade Fair and Opening Ceremony of the Sino-Korean Commodities Trade Center
Afternoon: - Opening of the 3rd Taiwan-Shandong Technological Exchange & Cooperation Week and Seminar on Weihai High & New Technological Industry
- Forum on International Habitat Environment.
Evening: | | Sep. 28th | Afternoon: Evening: | | Sep. 29th | All Day:- Sightseeing and visiting according to your free will.
- Departure.
| | Sep. 27th-29th | All Day:- 2007 Weihai International Expo on New Building & Decorating Materials
| | Sep. 20th-Oct. 20th | All Day:- Achievement Show of the 20th Anniversary of Weihai
- Painting, calligraphy and photography displays
| | Sep. 27th-Oct. 7th | All Day:- The 4th Weihai International Architecture Design Competition Award Works Show
- Sino-Korea (Weihai) Trade Fair
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Total RMB2,600 including expenditures for conference, meals, gifts & souvenirs, sightseeing & tours, evening gala, urban transportation except VIP Please reply and return this form to us before August 30th and confirm it before September 20th. Please contact Fenny Yu at Email: fenny1206@yahoo.com |
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