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1. Announcements
- Please feel encouraged to edit the page and list your name and your room number. To edit click this link [1]
2. When, Where and Other Quick Facts
- Hotel room: shampoo is the blue one on the right; body wash is the gray/pink one on the left.
- from September 17 to September 25 2005; as for Alum2b Orientation Meeting, September 14 (arrived before 8:00pm) -- September 17.
- Be sure to send your travel schedule to Ji Feng (benjaminji@gmail.com) with subject Symp Arrival Info. He will work out with you the details of travelling to Symposium, including issues such as whether there will be some ZU people to meet you in the airport.
- If you plan on arriving Hangzhou on your own, you may find Melton Foundation Symposium 2005/Shanghai To Hangzhou worthy reading. It comes with route recommendations and train schedules.
- Air ticket: From U.S: an inexpensive round-trip ticket to Shanghai should cost under $900. An expensive ticket would cost over $1200.
- Mobile network: GSM 900/1800MHz; CDMA 800MHz. The power supply is 220V, 50Hz.
- Ask someone to write the address of the hotel or your desired destination in Chinese. Keep the emergency contact number: (571) 87951017 with you, so that you can reach our computer room. You may also want to write down number of the hotel: 571-28926888.
- If that page is too big. try [2]
- September Climate: High 80-83F (27/29C); Low 66/70F (19/21C); Rain 7in/180mm.
- It is warm, humid. It rains fairly often in forms of afternoon thunderstorms. --- very true!!!
- Exchange Rate: (as of the 08/29/2005)
- 1 USD = 8.095 Yuan; 1 Euro = 9.92445 Yuan; 1,000.00 Chile Peso = 114.7549 Yuan; 100 Indian Rupees = 18.4447 Yuan;
- The safe bet for exchanging money is to bring cash and change it in the local Bank of China or have it changed before you leave your home country
- Share your travel schedule
- If you are interested to see whether you can meet some other Melton people in the Airport, you can share your travel schedule here --- Melton Foundation Symposium 2005/Meet Up. Note: this wiki page is an unofficial "schedule page". Do let Ji Feng know of your travel schedule by writing to mailto:benjaminji@gmail.com
3. Table of Contents
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- 1. Announcements
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- 2. When, Where and Other Quick Facts
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- 3. Table of Contents
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- 4. Questions & Answers
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- 5. Information
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- 5.1. Phrase Book
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- 5.2. Relevant Addresses and Contact numbers
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- 5.3. Travel Guide + China Intro
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- 5.4. Info Mail Archive
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6. Contact Person-
- 7. Maps
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- 8. Other online resources
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- 9. Comments and Questions
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- 10. Pictures
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- 11. Resources
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4. Questions & Answers
- ATTENTION: EVENT ORGANIZORS. PLEASE HELP ANWSER THESE QUESTIONS
- Q: What kind of immunization is required for entering China?
- A: The current answer is to check [U.S. CDC]'s website and see what is recommended. Hangzhou is in Zhejiang Province of China.
- For your information, Hangzhou is not affected by Malaria --- according to http://www.newenglandblood.org/giving/malariacountries.pdf.
- CDC does not list Zhejiang as affected by Encephalitis. We are also visiting only an urban area of 6 million people.
- Q: Randy asked What's the best way for exchanging Money?
- A: There are not a lot of options (as far as Hanbing knows). The safest way is to get RMB in Cash before you leave your home country. Avoid traveller's check, because there is only one bank in Hangzhou that cashes it, it takes a long time, according to Zhou Qing. If you can't get some RMB before you leave, you can bring some cash in US Dollar and change some of them in Airport and exchange the remaining in a local bank after you arrived Hangzhou.
- Li Zhen has asked a bank about the matter. Exchange rate is the same in any places except some underground market. The rate depends on when you exchange your money not the way you change it. You are encouraged to exchange your money in banks before your travel since not many places do want foreign currency. In addition, there are many big banks in Shanghai like 'city bank'. Whether an ATM will recognize your credit card, depends on your card not the ATM. So you'd better inquire whether your card will be accpeted in bank of China. ATMs here belong to different banks, service they provide is different, so there is some unexpected fators to get RMB with credit card in an ATM. If you are not sure with your credit card, you are advised to go to a bank to exchange beforehand.
5. Information
5.1. Phrase Book
- A different offline "printable" version is here: ArchiveZU:DOC/china/mf.card.pdf. (MF generic username and password needed). The printable version is a bit outdated thus has less entries than the current webpage has. According to Economist.com's [Shanghai city guide], having a Phrase book is a must. We are not sure whether the phrase book here is good enough. probably not enough. but you can request new expressions being added by editing the page and add an entry in English and we can translate it and provide the Chinese version''
- Check that out: Melton Foundation/Chinese Phrase Book
5.2. Relevant Addresses and Contact numbers
- include the address of the two campus and the address of the embassy.
- this is where you may want to take Taxi to, if you are travelling by yourself to Hangzhou
- Zhejiang university Yuquan campus 浙江大学玉泉校区
- bus that will go to or pass through Yuquan campus
- J6 527 81 15/K15 21/K21 K228(night) 28/K28 Y5 J16 K89 K293 K16 K807 815 82/K82 Y6
- Zhejiang university Zhijingang campus 浙江大学紫金港校区
- bus that will arrive Zijingang campus
- k74 k89 817/K817 860 K211(night) K74 K900 899 303/K303 K89
- Recommended route to go between Yu Quan campus (in the city) and Zijinguang campus
- k89 is the bus and the only bus that run from Yuquan campus and Zhijingang campus. It is fast and convenient.
- It takes about 45 minutes to go from Zhijingang to Yuquan, vice versa.
- 6:00（after 19 o'clock, every 15 minutes one run）until 21：30
- To find out more addresses labels, for example, the addresses for Embassies check out Melton Foundation Symposium 2005/Addresses
- include all the zu fellow's contact information and the link of embassy.
- Commondation problem in Hangzhou
- Feng Ji 13588493749
- Fang Cai 13777845188
- For technical and equipment
- Gongyu Wang 13957168643
- Li Zhen 13588395950
- Anything:
- Yan Jiang 13606817647
- Wa Yuan 13588487915
- Help in Shanghai (before/after symposium)
- Xianguo Zhong 13162166207
- Lili Rong 13917371212
5.3. Travel Guide + China Intro
- China Travel Guide --- with maps, China introduction, etc!
- Maybe the most useful site if you are planning a trip within China, however, it is not clear how many of you are really planning to travel on your own.
5.4. Info Mail Archive
6. Contact Person
- If you have website problem you can contact:
- If you need assistance in arranging travel and accomodation, you can contact:
- MELTON ZU COMPUTER ROOM TEL NUMBER (available from 10am to 10pm):
- +86 (0) 571 87951017 if dial from outside china, drop the 0
7. Maps
click on the small pictures will enlarge the picture, remember to use back button to go back to this page
8. Other online resources
Currently, Alumni network's symposium website has the best organized information.
- http://www.connectedforever.org/public/events/2005/symposium/
Official website is still under construction as of 08/08/2005
- http://www.meltonfoundation.org/Symp2005/
You are advised to also check out those pages! Thank you!
- There are lots of links here about travel, exchange and weather etc.
- Click Melton Foundation Symposium 2005/Useful links for symposium to have a look at it.
9. Comments and Questions
- See past comments and questions: Melton Foundation Symposium 2005/Comments
10. Pictures
from the Last ZU Symposium 2000
- For more pictures check out ArchiveZU:PHOTO (melton generic password needed)
From this year
11. Resources
See information about other symposiums check out: Melton Foundation/Symposium
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