Business trip to North East China

The main train station of Harbin, the tenth largest city in China. The temperature was around zero degree Celsius that day (2007/11/01).

The hotel we stayed was right in front of the train station.

Our main purpose was to visit the Harbin Industry University (哈爾濱工業大學).

As a must-have, we visited the Central Street (中央大街), the most exotic place in Harbin.

Here you can see why Harbin is also known as the "Eastern Moscow".

We walked down the central street and moved towards the St. Sophia church.

This is the largest Eastern Orthodox (東正教) church in Far East.

It was first built by Russians in 1907, and serve as Harbin Art Gallery since 1997.

The other day (2007/11/02) after work, we visited the same places again.

The buildings were even more beautiful at night.

Then we arrived at Dalian on 2007/11/03. This is the lobby of the hotel in Dalian University of Technology (大連理工大學).

Nice clean room with a view.

The main entrance of the University.

A multi-purpose stadium.

Lovely pine tree walk.

Night view of convention center and the hotel.

During our stay in Dalian, we visited Xinghai square (星海廣場), which is said to be the largest square in Asia.

This is a seashell museum in a European-style castle.