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May 23, 2013

Thursday May 23rd in BeijingGuest Blogger Ashley Massey Today we started off early and headed to the Summer Palace of the Ming Dynasty. It was beautiful and reminded us very much of a Chinese garden. One of the key attractions of the Summer palace was the Suzhou street bridge which is in the Guiness book… 

May 22, 2013

APRIL Pulp and Paper

Tuesday May 21Guest Blogger Ashley Massey Today we visited and were warmly welcomed by Asia Symbol (formally April Pulp and Paper). The mill is the largest pulp mill in the world…. And it was HUGE! They made market pulp and board. They also housed the world’s largest digester. It took about five hours to drive… 

May 20, 2013

Jinan-The Spring City and Shandong Polytechnic Institute

In the morning, we visited the Baotun Spring.  It was similar to the previous gardens we visited, very serene and beautiful.  Jinan is called the City of the Springs because water flows from the mountains in the south down to the Ming Lake. In the afternoon, we had lunch at the Institute’s cafeteria.  Then we… 

May 20, 2013

PICTURES!!!

We were finally able to upload some pictures to our Picasa Gallery.  They seem to be pretty much in chronological order.  Happy viewing!  Click on tab above or link below! 

May 19, 2013

Nanjing Forestry University

Guest Bloggers Ashley Massey and Michelle Blood On Saturday, May 18th, we went to the memorial for Dr. Sun Yet Sen in the morning.  We climbed 392 steps to reach the Memorial.  Next We saw the “beam-less” hall, which is a Buddhist temple with no wooden beam supports.  It was all brick and concrete; an architectural… 

May 19, 2013

New Location and no wireless!

Just wanted to quickly update you that we are now in Jinan and have no wireless in our hotel.  We ar trying our best to get some pictures off the few computers we have, uploaded to the blog! Thanks! 

May 19, 2013

Trains, Buses and Wheat Straw OH MY!

Guest Blogger Michelle Blood On Sunday, May 19, we got up early to ride a high speed train from Nanjing to Jinan.  The train ran up to 305 km/h.  Once in Jinan we were bussed 1.5 hours from the train station to Tralin Paper Company where we saw a wheat straw mill.  It is the… 

May 17, 2013

Gold East and Nanjing

Guest Bloggers Ashley Massey and Michelle Blood Today we were welcomed warmly by Gold East Paper Company. Gold East Paper is under Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and is the largest coated free-sheet paper mill in the world. Gold East also houses the second largest paper machine for coated freesheet in the world. The mill… 

May 16, 2013

Voith and Suzhou

Day 3 with Guest Bloggers Michelle Blood and Ashley MasseyTHANK YOU ladies We started our day early (…early) and headed 2 hours outside of Shanghai to a Voith manufacturing site. They manufactured paper making fabrics, rolls and cylinders. They also pre-assemble their framework and pipes of the paper machine before shipping all the parts to… 

May 15, 2013

Patience

We are having a great time and ready to go out sightseeing in Shanghai.  Having some issues with consistent wireless access and there is NO Facebook access.  Keep checking back.  Everyone is safe, well fed and reasonably well rested! Some of us had cocoa pebbles for breakfast (Ashley and Kim), and others enjoyed sweet potatoes,…