Our college is called Yangling College which is one of the most important higher vocational colleges in Shaanxi, China. It was founded in September, 1999, a combination of former Shaanxi Agriculture School (founded in 1934), Shaanxi Water Conservancy School (founded in 1943), and Shaanxi Forestry School (founded in 1954). Therefore it has over 70 years' history.
Our college is located in Yangling, Shaanxi, China. Yangling is an agricultural high-tech demonstration zone which is 83 kilometers from Xi'an (capital city of Shaanxi)--- a historical, cultural, and economic center. It has a beautiful and graceful atmosphere.
Our college covers over 975729 M2. There are 12 different departments with 48 different specialties and 802 staffs at our college. Our college is developing with advanced equipments, strict management and wise regulations. Our college is examined and approved as one of the most important national demonstration higher vocational college by Ministry of Education of PRC.
For the further development of our college and education to be internationalized, our college is waiting for the foreign experts who intend to teach and help our college to develop rapidly. We are waiting for you warmheartedly and sincerely.
Our college will provide the foreign expert with an apartment with three rooms, kitchen, bathroom, balcony, and the equipments such as, fridge, TV, rice cooker, microwave oven, washing-machine, drinking machine, and so on.
Our college hope your excellent teaching and rich knowledge can bring more rapid development to our college sincerely.
General Outline of Yangling
More than 4000 years ago, it was here in Yangling that Houji-agricultural ancestor of the Chinese nation taught the people how to grow crops and to learn cultivation techniques of five cereals and established a precedent of the Chinese farming civilizations.
In 1934, it was here in Yangling that Mr. Yu Youren and General Yang Hucheng, et al. initiated to establish the earliest agricultural institution of higher learning -"the National Northwestern Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry" in the northwestern areas in China.
In July 1997, approved of by the state council, Yangling became only one of National Grade of Agriculture High-Tech industry demonstration Zone.
In July 2000, Yangling Demonstration Zone was approved of by the state as the open-up scientech industrial park for China to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
Yangling Demonstration Zone covers a total areas of 94 km2, and under its jurisdiction, there is Yangling district (county level), with a total population of 136,000. The planned area of the newly-constructed zone is 22.12 km2, consisting of such 7 functional districts as agro-science garden district, modern agricultural and rural construction demonstration garden district, agricultural high-tech industrial garden district, agricultural comprehension garden district, agricultural intermediate experiment garden district, living service garden district and agricultural sight-seeing and recreation belt, etc.
Yangling Demonstration Zone enjoys each item of preferential policies set for national high-tech industrial development zones at the state level and the policies inclining to and backing agriculture as well as each item of preferential policies set for developing the western areas in China. The administrative Committee of Yangling Demonstration Zone is the agency under the direct levels and provincial economic management right as well as part of provincial administrative right.
For 5 years since its establishment, Yangling Demonstration Zone has developed so rapidly that the fixed asset investments completed have been 1.56 billion RBM yuan. The synchronous development of high-tech industries and infrastructure construction has been on the high starting point and high standard requirements in construction. Accordingly, Water Sports Center, Yangling International Exhibition and Convention Center, Thermal Power Plant and Yangling Information Port with highly speed breadth bands, etc. have been completed in succession so that the city framework has been initially formed. Also, a batch of the important high sci-tech projects with the international advanced standards, and having self-independent intellectual properties have settled in Yangling one after another so that an industrial pattern with the fine crop variety and animal breed breeding, manufacturing of water-saving irrigation equipment, bioengineering, pharmaceutical production, agriculturally-used chemical industry and agro-production, agro-products integrated processing as the representative undertakings has been initially formed. As a result, eco-city and industrial city with functions of having innovation spirit and bringing about the motivation, radiation and demonstration is gradually being turned into reality in this beautiful environment with complete functions and full of business opportunities.
Welcome to Shaanxi Province
Shaanxi is a landlocked province in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. During a span of 1,100 years, 13 dynasties had their capital cities in Shaanxi, with a total of 73 emperors ruling supreme there, Xi'an, Xianyang, Yan'an, Yulin, Hancheng and hanzhong are famous historical and cultural cities. The land of Shaanxi is dotted with 60 palaeoanthropologic and Paleolithic and Neolithic sites, 72 large-scale tombs of emperors, 20 or so imperial palaces, 2,604 ancient buildings, and 1,200 old temples and monasteries. Among the more than 600,000 cultural artifacts collected in Shaanxi's 74 museums and memorial halls are 5,000 rare artifacts, 3,526 first-class cultural relics, and 123 national treasures. Shaanxi Province is thus known in the world as a colossal natural and historical museum.
Xi'an
Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province with a 3,000-year history, was known as Chang's in ancient times. For 1,062 years the city had been capital for 13 dynasties, and a total of 73 emperors had ruled China there. That is why the land of the city is pockmarked with cultural relics and historical ruins. The mausoleum of Qinshihuang and his mighty army of terracotta warriors and horses are world-famous attractions. The other scenes and sights include Banpo Village Ruins, Greater and Lesser Wild-Goose Pagodas, Bell tower and Drum Tower, City Wall, Xingjiao Temple, Famen Temple, Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an Stele Forest, and Grand Mosque. The celebrated Silk Road began in Xi'an.
Yangling is near Xi’an city----the certer of history,culture,business and economy. Aroun Xi’an and Yangling there are many attractive sceneries for you to enjoy.
Qinshihuang's Mausoleum
The mausoleum of Qinshihuang (259-210 BC), who unified China and founded the first, is found 5 km to the east of Lintong County. A highway conducts to the top of the tumulus for the benefits of visitors.
Terracotta Warriors & Horses
This mighty army of terracotta warriors and horses, found in three vaults 39km east of Xi'an and 1.5 km from the Qin emperor's mausoleum, is perhaps the most popular tourist attraction of Shaanxi. An in-site museum has been built over these pits, covering a floor space of 20,000 square metres and displaying 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors, 100 or so chariots, and 30,000 weapons-an assemblage billed as the Eighth World Wonder and a world cultural heritage site.
Wild-Goose Pagodas
Completed in 652, or the 3rd year of Yonghui reign of the Tang emperor Gaozong, the 64.1-metre-high Greater Wild-Goose Pagoda in Ci'en Temple is a pavilion-like brick structure whose serene and well-proportioned form has become the emblem of the city of Xi'an. A later comer during the Tang, the Lesser Wild-Goose Pagoda in Jianfu Temple is an exquisite and graceful 43.3-metre-high structure with 13 floors.
Stele Forest
Situated in the Shaanxi Museum, the Stele Forest of Xi'an is the largest and oldest of its kind in China with a collection of 2,300 stone tablets and epitaphs from the Han, Wei, Jin, Sui Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, forming comprehensive library of books-on-stones measurable historical and artistic value.
City Wall of Xi'an
Xi'an boasts the only city wall to remain intact to this day in China. Built during the early Ming on the basis of the Tang imperial city of Chang'an, and laid out on a rectangular plan 13.7 km in circumference, this wall stands 12 metres high, 12-14 metres wide at the top and 15-18 metres wide at the base. A total of 5,894 crenels are built along the outer edge of the wall each of its four corners is topped by a turret, and a main gateway is built into each of the wall's four sides. The top of the wall has been converted into a promenade, so that visitors can take a stroll while feasting their eyes on the scenery within and without the city and musing upon the distant past of this ancient city.
Banpo Village Ruins
The ruins, lying north of Banpo Village on the eastern outskirts of Xi'an, became an in-site museum in 1958. in an area of 50,000 square metres, a residential quarter, a potter-making zone and a burial ground have been found, along with large numbers of tools used by members of a matriarchal clan in the Yellow River valley more than 6,000 years ago.
Shaanxi History Museum
One km from the Greater Wild Goose Pagoda in the south of Xi'an stands the Shaanxi History Museum, the first of its kind in China to be equipped with modern facilities, covers 56,000 square metres in floor space. A total of 2,000 exhibits, chosen from a collection of 110,000, are on display.
Tang Tricolour Pottery
These pottery ware, modeled after real ones unearthed from some Tang tombs, are graphic in image and eye-pleasing in colour, and smack strongly of everyday life. There are 100 or so varieties, including figurines, horse-like camels and utensils.
Grand Mosque
The Grand Mosque, covering an area of 12,000 square metres and having a floor space of 4,000 square metres and a seating capacity for 1,000 worshippers, is the largest and best-protected mosque in China. Construction of it began in 742. Islamic architecture is perfectly integrated with traditional Chinese elements in this unique complex.
Famen Temple
Construction of Famen Monastery in Fufeng County began during the Eastern Han. In 1987 the brick pagoda of the monastery collapsed in the rain, and an underground palace with 2,400 treasures, belonging to Tang and previous dynasties, was brought to light as a result. These include gold and silver utensils, glazed wares, porcelains, pearls and precious stones and textiles. The discovery of four sariras attributed to Sakyamuni in an 8-layer container in this collection shocked the entire Buddhist world.
Huaqing Palace
The Tang emperor, Xuanzong, had Huaqing Palace built by the hot springs at the foot of Lishan Mountain in Lintong County, so that he could frolic with his favoured Imperial Lady Yang to his heart's content. Today, the facility is attracting a constant stream of visitors who come both to catch a piece of history and enjoy the nice scenery.
Mount Huashan
The 1,997-metre-tall Mount Huashan, true to its reputation as the "most precipitous mountain under heaven", is a cluster of five peaks with breathtaking cliff faces and a tough challenge to mountaineers. A cable car whisks visitors right to the top of Huashan, which is also one of the five holy mountains in China.
Yan'an
Yan'an became the center of Chinese revolution in 1937, when top Party leaders stayed there from 1937 to 1947, and conducted the resistance war against Japan and the war of liberation. This has earned Yan'an the title: "Cradle of Revolution".
Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum
Yellow Emperor, the legendary ancestor of all the Chinese in the world today, is worshiped every year at this mausoleum north of Huangling County which evinces classic sanctity amidst a forest of verdant, yet ancient-looking cypress trees.
Imperial Tombs
Qinshihuang's mausoleum is not the only imperial necropolis left in Xi'an. Being the Chinese capital during a succession of dynasties, the city is actually studded with imperial tombs. To name a few: Changling, situated east of Xianyang, was the tomb for Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han; Maoling, 15 km east of Xingping County, is the largest of all the Western Han imperial tombs in Shaanxi. Buried there were the remains of the all-mighty Emperor Wu. Maoling Museum was established in 1987 near the tomb of Huo Qubin, a major Han general. Li Yuan, or Emperor Gaozu of Tang, had his tomb built east of Sanyuan County, and named it Xianling. The Zhaoling, situated to the northeast of Liquan County, belonged to Li Shimin, or Emperor Taizong of Tang. Buried in the Qianling on the Liangshan Mountain north of Qianxian County were the remains of Tang Emperor Gaozong and his wife, Empress Wu Zetian. The tomb was actually tunneled into the rocky mountain. Some of the surface structures and large numbers of stone men, animals and ornamental pillars are still there. The Tailing, to the northeast of Pucheng County, was the tomb for Li Longji, or Tang Emperor Xuanzong.