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  Water Town, Nanan City is located in the southern coastal chinese city of stone. Borders with the Xiamen Special Economic Zone, there is Quanzhou "South Gate" said. Town area of 117 square kilometers, population 103,000, is the hometown of overseas Chinese city of Fujian, Fujian Province, named after the first industrial satellite town for three consecutive years by the provincial party committee and provincial government as "10 good and civilized market town", was the Ministry of Construction approval of the pilot construction of small towns across the country town. Overseas Chinese pro-45000 people living abroad, mainly in Southeast Asian countries. Is the Chinese people of Taiwan compatriots, one of the main ancestral home.

    Head the mountain beside the sea and pleasant weather. Tourism resources, rich in Anping Zheng Chenggong cemetery and two piers, and maintain a unit of state-level cultural relics, there are beautiful days of heart-hole, flying tile Rock, Immortal Footprint Rock, Rock, etc. Mineyama many attractions, has a long historical and cultural accumulation As early as Wuliuqiannian ago there where human lives and breeds in the Warring States period, left here for the colorful bronze culture. To the Song Dynasty is known as "A World Without the bridge, long bridge," the Anping Bridge, built in head-commerce has become the gathering place of trade. Here public moral, the large pool of talent, reputation for "Beach Zou Lu" ya famous Seoul, ages, head emerged out of many famous historical figures, the Northern Song Dynasty Lvhui Qing Wang An-shih Reform is the principal developers and promoters; the Southern Song Lu Da-kui Officer to Zhaosantaifu, having been active against the brutal killing of Yuan-jun; Ming Shen entire period is the last one jinshi Nam, he served as the right Censorate Censor, who led the Jiuxi 18 BA Xiang from China at the White Lotus Temple, treatment, after five years and the recovery of Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong Joined Ming forces team. Composite after his medical practice in Taiwan, save the world and was revered as the people of Taiwan medical Zu; are there any recovering Taiwan Ting-Bin Zheng Chenggong right to make a significant contribution. At that time, he served as Interpreter of the Netherlands, because of dissatisfaction with Dutch colonial rule, the secret map of the Survey and Mapping Taiwan deer ears Hong Kong dedicated to Zheng Jun Zheng Chenggong and as a guide to recover Taiwan. There are an industrialist, Mr. Lv Zhenwan in the public-spirited undertakings, head Nam and the economy and even the development of social undertakings have made great contributions.

     Since the reform and opening up, especially since the speech of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's southern tour, head the people under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and give full play to the superior geographical environment and rich resources advantages, to play a "smart Ganpin, daring, Gangan," the head spirit, vigorously the construction companies to promote economic and social undertakings developed rapidly. In 1998 the town 1.63 billion gross national product to achieve industrial and agricultural output value of 3.1 billion, industrial and commercial tax 66.48 million yuan, per capita national income reached 3980 yuan, becoming Nanan's "leading" town.

    

【Agriculture】

Head is known as "Shuiguozhixiang" The reputation the past few years great efforts to implement the agriculture through science and technology and sustainable development strategies in order to "well-off society, built village" as the goal, a solid push forward the comprehensive development of agriculture, and constantly improve the floral arrangements, vegetables, fruits base, has opened a base formed a double line floral arrangements, flowers, as well as global Beaulieu Shanglin vegetable base, greatly improving the efficiency of agricultural production, increase farmers income and agricultural output value of 197.02 million yuan whole town has been identified as the first batch of Quanzhou City to the well-off type off towards town.

    

【Attract investment】

The town party committee and government to firmly establish a "lay a foundation, on the scale; tree pillars, on the level; Tuo District, upgrading" of the development strategy. Around the "two changes" to busy high-tech big business for the dragon in order to export-oriented economy as the motive force, based on township and village enterprises, and strive to cultivate new economic growth point, based on "seizing the focus, expand the scale, and promote technical innovation, building market "to make a fuss around the" 15285 "working ideas, (that is, around a center, pay close attention to five focus on strengthening the two work, eight solid run to take five measures). Vigorously to the "12345" economic development strategy, (that is pegged to a target, prosperous second-tier economy, developing three Area, the four pillars of a good tree, highlight the five-building) to promote the town sustained, healthy and rapid development. Emergence of ceramics, stone, knitting, clothing, footwear, plastics, food, machinery, handicrafts and so on a number of pillar industries. The town more than 800 township enterprises, 106 foreign-funded enterprises, export delivery value of 776 million yuan, industrial and commercial tax revenue 66.48 million yuan, the highest in the forefront of the city. Investment Waiyinneilian we continue to intensify efforts to tap new markets, on 98 December determinedly to the forefront of China's reform and opening up positions - Investment conference held in Shenzhen has achieved good returns. Signed 13 projects, total investment of 342.5 million yuan, 33.12 million U.S. dollars foreign capital, foreign investment rate of 85.5%. It is learned that, as a town can be taken the provincial boundary to Shenzhen to hold such a large-scale investment would be in the country of which is the first case. Taiwanese investment of nearly billion building materials market has been completed the first phase of the first building, the completion of 292 shops and on May 18 by the market opening ceremony of the machine, hold the first grand Nanan (National) Building Materials Trade Fair, from Italy , Egypt, Norway, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries and regions and 37 domestic provinces and cities participated in the symposium, and achieved full success of HE. Purchase and sale of signing contracts to invest a total of 227 projects, with a total capital 1.12 billion, of which 25 investment projects and foreign economy and 13 in-12, the investment amounting to 230 million yuan, trading 202 contracts, turnover of 890 million yuan. And held sand in Italy saw technology and product launches will be. Invested 40 million yuan of the State Highway 324-head double-track has been opened to traffic, Planning and Design Institute of Tianjin employ an overall planning and design of the double-track to double-track into a high-tech industrial corridor, to become another source of economic growth.

    

Infrastructure 【】

1, transportation: the head area's unique mountain and ocean, skills, land and water transportation is convenient, State Highway 324 across the entire territory, as long as 18.4 kilometers, Xiamen expressway to wear throughout the spring before, and in Park Lane has an entrance; for the prosperity of head the economy, with the town's economic development, actively financing the construction of more than 4,000 million State Highway 324-head double-track has been opened to traffic, greatly reduced the section of State Highway 324 head of traffic load; from the Xiamen International Airport is only 58 kilometers away from Jinjiang Airport is only 15 km; fly health would be close at hand, sea developed, the town has a five hundred-ton dock, direct access to Guangzhou, Shanghai, Ningbo and other cities, from the 5000-ton terminal Ishii is only 8 km. Constitute a three-dimensional sea and air transport network, in order to head the economic development of the necessary objective conditions.

     2, post and telecommunications: the head of Posts and Telecommunications developed communication convenience, the town has a Post Office and Telecommunications, as well as a large surplus, Beaulieu, etc. 2 blocks of Posts and Telecommunications Bureau, the installed capacity of 2.5 million lines, the establishment of mobile communications base stations, seven in the meet head for three years the need for sustainable development.

     3, water and electricity: the head of adequate water and electricity, with two 110,000-volt substation and a daily output 52,000 tons of water plant, able to satisfy a number of manufacturers as well as the daily water needs of the masses.

     4, the financial aspects: head finance and trade developed, with all kinds of financial and trade networks. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank, Construction Bank set up branch Dengjun in the head, the annual volume of business were among the first in the city.

    

【Municipal construction】

Head is the construction of small towns nationwide pilot units, to employ the entire township Planning and Design Institute of Tianjin for system planning and design. The town party committee and government, after careful investigation, multi-seeking, scientific analysis, careful study, decided to plan the program implemented. The first phase of reconstruction of "Fuxing commercial zone", covers an area of 165 acres, the other construction area of 53 acres, 52.8 acres of green, green rate of 36%, exceeding the national standard; road 48.2 acres of land, of which 11 acres of public land. The entire region as a modern city in miniature. In the implementation process, seriously in accordance with high standards and high starting point to transform the building, the entire region of all water, electricity, telecommunications, cable TV lines be placed underground independent kingdom, using three years to head into a scientific and rational planning, street spacious new, fresh and elegant environment, people living comfortable and convenient, commercial prosperity and development of socialist modernization and new town. At the same time, conscientiously implement the Quanzhou City, Nanan City off Old Village transformation, the guiding spirit of the Village building, in accordance with "seizing the fine, a typical tree, create the experience, pushing comprehensive" general requirements driven around the township village-building work of transformation the pattern and concentrate on the first grasp Shui Tau Tsuen this pilot.

    

【Social undertakings】

Vigorously implement the strategy of the town of science and education, and actively guide enterprises in their technological transformation and equipment renewal, has been more than 10 enterprises were awarded Provincial Science and Technology-tech enterprises; vigorously straighten Ceramic Industry soot pollution, achieved good results, has been named Quanzhou Ceramic Industry soot pollution control advanced unit. Continued to increase education efforts, the town has 34 primary and five secondary schools (of which two end in), and a vocational school in the province, "two basics" inspection was rated excellent level compliance, which was promoted to provincial Southern Star Middle School 2 compliance school. teaching Hospital, formerly the head sea clinics, after the Hong Kong Lui Wan advanced donor cell expansion, renovation leadership mechanism for the board of directors, in recent years, constantly expanding capital increase, additional equipment, while employing a number of famous doctors of experts inside and outside the province, enrich the medical team has now to become a skillful, advanced equipment, garden-style hospital, and through two B compliance and acceptance. Recreational facilities, with a bowling alley on the grade 2; star hotel 3; can accommodate three or four thousand people, "Lu Wan Stadium," complete set up service, is the province's largest township-level indoor arena, and in this held several kinds of large cultural and sports activities. Actively in-depth manner, "35," popularization of education, vigorously implement the "administering the town" strategy, social stability, law and order cases and criminal cases decreased year by year; to fully mobilize the community to those who love the public welfare donations founded the 110 Emergency Call Service and from active duty squadron composed of fire and the establishment of 110 community linkage system for entrepreneurs and people provide a safe production and living environment.

    

Minnan Building Material Market 【first】

Embedded in the "Hometown of China's building materials" - a bright pearl in Southampton, is located at State Highway 324 230KM, Zhejiang, Fuzhou road, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Quanzhou in southern coastal mainland links must be passed through. Xiamen International Airport, Jinjiang Qingyang Airport around breakdown; Ishii Hong Kong 5000-ton terminal distant sight. Large-scale zone of Beaulieu, the hospital under the Industrial Area, Southern Union Industrial Park, as well as Haosheng, three-wing, Venus, feeder, Pang Ching, and other famous manufacturers distribute their side, such as Zhongxinggongyue shape, as people, materials information aggregation point.

    At present, Nanan city of more than 4000 building materials enterprises, annual production value of 13.5 billion yuan turned over to the 212 million tax revenue, the main stone building material industry, ceramic, cement, plumbing, fire fighting equipment, steel pipe, aluminum, hardware, mechanical and electrical, etc., in which more than 1350 manufacturing enterprises stone, ceramic manufacturing enterprises and more than 800. On the industry distribution, building materials companies have tended to focus on the head, Guan Qiao, Ishii and other coastal towns, only there are more than 500 water-Town, the annual output value of 2 billion yuan; on the operating conditions of point of view, large-scale building material production, such as the Flagstone stone industry's annual production capacity of over 40 million square meters, process material up to 500 million yuan, the product style complete, high quality, there are stone plates, profiles, thin profiles, craft wood, color wood, dyeing materials and so on, are exported to Japan, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, South America, Africa, more than 10 countries and regions, as well as cities in China, formed the raw and auxiliary materials rich variety of style and complete, producing large-scale, market network and improve the industrial system. Building materials industry is now ranked Nam's national economy has been "half" of its cast from the unshakeable position of the pillar industries for Nam's economy propped up a blue sky, Nam and therefore has been officially named as "China's building materials of the town."

     In the course of dealing in building materials, due to the municipal government to be guided consciously present Shuitou initially formed a variety of stone are sold at home and abroad, average daily sales of 3,000 square meters, annual turnover ultra-billion Building Materials Wholesale . But with the rapid development of building materials industry, the lack of a unified market regulation and control functions, loose disorder, disorderly competition in the wholesale building materials, building materials have been far from being able to meet the growing demand for expansion of the huge deal. Therefore, in promoting the building materials business transformation and upgrading, promote the vigorous development of the tertiary industry, after full investigation and deliberation, the town decided that the "big market, big business, big circulation" requirement and the "high starting point plan, high-speed construction, high-level management ", the location of water in the Town to build the first large-scale building materials market, the Taiwanese to build commercial and residential collection, exhibitions, banks, post and telecommunications, catering, parking, security and other supporting facilities complete the" building materials supermarket ", make it into a stone as a leader, concurrently ceramics, plumbing, fire fighting equipment, mechanical and electrical hardware, sanitary ware, lighting fittings and other products of the national wholesale market for large-scale building materials, radiation the country, affecting the Asia-Pacific, an international building materials of the human, financial, and material information flow an important distribution center.
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Empire State Building

History

Empire State Building

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

U.S. National Historic Landmark

NYC Landmark

Location:

350 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10118

 United States

Coordinates:

404454.36 735908.36 / 40.7484333N 73.9856556W / 40.7484333; -73.9856556Coordinates: 404454.36 735908.36 / 40.7484333N 73.9856556W / 40.7484333; -73.9856556

Architect:

Shreve, Lamb and Harmon

Architectural style(s):

Art Deco

Added to NRHP:

November 17, 1982

Designated NHL:

June 24, 1986

Designated NYCL:

May 19, 1981

NRHP Reference#:

82001192

The site of the Empire State Building was first developed as the John Thomson Farm in the late 18th century. At the time, a stream ran across the site, emptying into Sunfish Pond, located a block away. Beginning in the late 19th century the block was occupied by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, frequented by The Four Hundred, the social elite of New York.

Design and construction

The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb from the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, which produced the building drawings in just two weeks, using its earlier designs for the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the Carew Tower in Cincinnati, Ohio (designed by the architectural firm W.W. Ahlschlager & Associates) as a basis. Every year the staff of the Empire State Building sends a Father's Day card to the staff at the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem to pay homage to its role as predecessor to the Empire State Building. The building was designed from the top down. The general contractors were The Starrett Brothers and Eken, and the project was financed primarily by John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont. The construction company was chaired by Alfred E. Smith, a former Governor of New York and James Farley's General Builders Supply Corporation supplied the building materials. John W. Bowser was project construction superintendant.

A worker bolts beams during construction; the Chrysler Building can be seen in the background.

Excavation of the site began on January 22, 1930, and construction on the building itself started symbolically on March 17t.Patrick's Dayer Al Smith's influence as Empire State, Inc. president. The project involved 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. According to official accounts, five workers died during the construction. Governor Smith's grandchildren cut the ribbon on May 1, 1931. Lewis Wickes Hine's photography of the construction provides not only invaluable documentation of the construction, but also a glimpse into common day life of workers in that era. In particular the photo of a worker climbing a stay cable is talismanic of the era and the building itself.

The construction was part of an intense competition in New York for the title of "world's tallest building". Two other projects fighting for the title, 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building, were still under construction when work began on the Empire State Building. Each held the title for less than a year, as the Empire State Building surpassed them upon its completion, just 410 days after construction commenced. The building was officially opened on May 1, 1931 in dramatic fashion, when United States President Herbert Hoover turned on the building's lights with the push of a button from Washington, D.C. Ironically, the first use of tower lights atop the Empire State Building, the following year, was for the purpose of signalling the victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt over Hoover in the presidential election of November 1932.

Opening

The building's opening coincided with the Great Depression in the United States, and as a result much of its office space went without being rented. The building's vacancy was exacerbated by its poor location on 34th Street, which placed it relatively far from public transportation, as Grand Central Terminal, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, and Penn Station are all several blocks away. Other more successful skyscrapers, such as the Chrysler Building, do not have this problem. In its first year of operation, the observation deck took in approximately 2 million dollars, as much money as its owners made in rent that year. The lack of renters led New Yorkers to deride the building as the "Empty State Building". The building would not become profitable until 1950. The famous 1951 sale of The Empire State Building to Roger L. Stevens and his business partners was brokered by the prominent upper Manhattan real-estate firm Charles F. Noyes & Company for a record $51 million. At the time, that was the highest price ever paid for a single structure in real-estate history.

Dirigible (airship) terminal

The building's distinctive Art Deco spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast and depot for dirigibles. The 102nd floor was originally a landing platform with a dirigible gangplank. A particular elevator, traveling between the 86th and 102nd floors, was supposed to transport passengers after they checked in at the observation deck on the 86th floor. However, the idea proved to be impractical and dangerous after a few attempts with airships, due to the powerful updrafts caused by the size of the building itself. A large broadcast tower was added to the top of the spire in 1953.

1945 plane crash

Main article: B-25 Empire State Building crash

Crash by a U.S. Army B-25 bomber on July 28, 1945

At 9:40 a.m.on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr., crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors, where the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council were located. One engine shot through the side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block where it landed on the roof of a nearby building, starting a fire that destroyed a penthouse. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. 14 people were killed in the incident. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a plunge of 75 stories inside an elevator, which still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall recorded. Despite the damage and loss of life, the building was open for business on many floors on the following Monday. The crash helped spur the passage of the long-pending Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946, as well as the insertion of retroactive provisions into the law, allowing people to sue the government for the accident.

A year later, another aircraft had a close encounter with the skyscraper. It narrowly missed striking the building.

Height records and comparisons

Height comparison in buildings in New York City

The Empire State Building remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for 23 years before it was surpassed by the Griffin Television Tower Oklahoma (KWTV Mast) in 1954. It was also the tallest free-standing structure in the world for 36 years before it was surpassed by the Ostankino Tower in 1967.

The longest world record held by the Empire State Building was for the tallest skyscraper (to structural height), which it held for 42 years until it was surpassed by the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1973. With the destruction of the World Trade Center in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City, and the second-tallest building in the Americas, currently surpassed only by the Willis Tower in Chicago. When measured by pinnacle height, the Empire State Building is currently the third-tallest building in the Americas, surpassed only by the Willis Tower and the Trump International Hotel and Tower.

1 World Trade Center, currently under construction in New York City, is expected to exceed the height of the Empire State Building upon completion. The Chicago Spire is also expected to exceed the height of the Empire State Building upon completion, but its construction has been halted due to financial problems.

Suicides

Over the years, more than thirty people have committed suicide from the top of the building. The first suicide occurred even before its completion, by a worker who had been laid off. The fence around the observatory terrace was put up in 1947 after five people tried to jump during a three-week span. On December 2, 1979, Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor, only to be blown back onto the 85th floor and left with only a broken hip.

Shootings

Main article: 1997 Empire State Building shooting

On February 24, 1997, a Palestinian gunman shot seven people on the observation deck, killing one, then fatally wounding himself.

Architecture

The Empire State Building (in center of image) is the tallest building in New York City

Street level view of the Empire State Building

The Empire State Building rises to 1,250 ft (381 m) at the 102nd floor, and including the 203 ft (62 m) pinnacle, its full height reaches 1,453 ft8916 in (443.09 m). The building has 85 stories of commercial and office space representing 2,158,000 sq ft (200,500 m2). It has an indoor and outdoor observation deck on the 86th floor. The remaining 16 stories represent the Art Deco tower, which is capped by a 102nd-floor observatory. Atop the tower is the 203 ft (62 m) pinnacle, much of which is covered by broadcast antennas, with a lightning rod at the very top.

The Empire State Building was the first building to have more than 100 floors. It has 6,500 windows and 73 elevators, and there are 1,860 steps from street level to the 103rd floor. It has a total floor area of 2,768,591 sq ft (257,211 m2); the base of the Empire State Building is about 2 acres (8,094 m2). The building houses 1,000 businesses, and has its own zip code, 10118. As of 2007, approximately 21,000 employees work in the building each day, making the Empire State Building the second-largest single office complex in America, after the Pentagon. The building was completed in one year and 45 days. Its original 64 elevators are located in a central core; today, the Empire State Building has 73 elevators in all, including service elevators. It takes less than one minute by elevator to get to the 86th floor, where an observation deck is located. The building has 70 mi (113 km) of pipe, 2,500,000 ft (760,000 m) of electrical wire, and about 9,000 faucets.[citation needed] It is heated by low-pressure steam; despite its height, the building only requires between 2 and 3 psi (14 and 21 kPa) of steam pressure for heating. It weighs approximately 370,000 short tons (340,000 t). The exterior of the building was built using Indiana limestone panels.

The Empire State Building cost $40,948,900 to build.

A series of setbacks causes the building to taper with height.

Unlike most of today's skyscrapers, the Empire State Building features an art deco design, typical of pre-World War II architecture in New York. The modernistic stainless steel canopies of the entrances on 33rd and 34th Streets lead to two story-high corridors around the elevator core, crossed by stainless steel and glass-enclosed bridges at the second-floor level. The elevator core contains 67 elevators.

The lobby is three stories high and features an aluminum relief of the skyscraper without the antenna, which was not added to the spire until 1952. The north corridor contains eight illuminated panels, created by Roy Sparkia and Rene Nemorov in 1963, depicting the building as the Eighth Wonder of the World, alongside the traditional seven.

Long-term forecasting of the life cycle of the structure was implemented at the design phase to ensure that the building's future intended uses were not restricted by the requirements of previous generations. This is particularly evident in the over-design of the building's electrical system.

Floodlights

Empire State Building with red and green lights for Christmas, as seen from GE Building

Empire State Building with normal white lighting, as seen from New Jersey

In 1964, floodlights were added to illuminate the top of the building at night, in colors chosen to match seasonal and other events, such as St. Patrick's Day, Christmas, Independence Day or Bastille Day. After the eightieth birthday and subsequent death of Frank Sinatra, for example, the building was bathed in blue light to represent the singer's nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". After the death of actress Fay Wray (King Kong) in late 2004, the building stood in complete darkness for 15 minutes.

The floodlights bathed the building in red, white, and blue for several months after the destruction of the World Trade Center, then reverted to the standard schedule. Traditionally, in addition to the standard schedule, the building will be lit in the colors of New York's sports teams on the nights they have home games (orange, blue and white for the New York Knicks, red, white and blue for the New York Rangers, and so on). The first weekend in June finds the building bathed in green light for the Belmont Stakes held in nearby Belmont Park. The building is illuminated in tennis-ball yellow during the US Open tennis tournament in late August and early September. It was twice lit in scarlet to support nearby Rutgers university: once for a football game against the University of Louisville on November 9, 2006 , and again on April 3, 2007 when the women's basketball team played in the national championship game.

In 1995, the building was lit up in blue, red, green and yellow for the release of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which was launched with a $300 million campaign.

The building has also been known to be illuminated in purple and white in honor of graduating students from New York University.

Every year in September, the building is lit in black, red, and yellow, with the top lights off (for black) to celebrate the German-American Steuben Parade on Fifth Avenue.

The building was lit green for three days in honor of the Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr in October 2007. The lighting, the first for a Muslim holiday, is intended to be an annual event and was repeated in 2008 and 2009. In December 2007, the building was lit yellow to signify the home video release of The Simpsons Movie.

From April 2527, 2008 the building was lit in lavender, pink, and white in celebration of international pop diva Mariah Carey's accomplishments in the world of music and the release of her eleventh studio album E=MC2.[citation needed]

In late October 2008, the building was lit green in honor of the fifth anniversary of the acclaimed Broadway Musical Wicked by Kerry Ellis and Stephen Schwartz.

Starting in 2008, the building along with New York City and many other cities around the world, participated in Earth Hour. The skyscraper's floodlights were turned off for exactly an hour to conserve energy.

In September 2009, the building was lit for one night in orange colors, in celebration of the exploration of Manhattan Island by Henry Hudson 400 years earlier. The Dutch prince Willem-Alexander van Oranje and princess Maxima were present and turned on the lights from the lobby.

In 2009, the building was lit for one night in red and yellow, the colors of the Communist People's Republic of China, to celebrate the 60 years since its founding, amid controversy.

Observation decks

The Empire State Building has one of the most popular outdoor observatories in the world, having been visited by over 110 million people. The 86th-floor observation deck offers impressive 360-degree views of the city. There is a second observation deck on the 102nd floor that is open to the public. It was closed in 1999, but reopened in November 2005. It is completely enclosed and much smaller than the first one; it may be closed on high-traffic days. Tourists may pay to visit the observation deck on the 86th floor and an additional amount for the 102nd floor. The lines to enter the observation decks, according to the building's website, are "as legendary as the building itself:" there are five of them: the sidewalk line, the lobby elevator line, the ticket purchase line, the second elevator line, and the line to get off the elevator and onto the observation deck. For an extra fee tourists can skip to the front of the line.

The skyscraper observation deck plays host to several cinematic, television, and literary classics including, An Affair To Remember, Love Affair and Sleepless in Seattle. In the Latin American literary work Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi the observation deck is the site of a pastoral revolution; shepherds take over the City of New York. The deck was also the site of a Martian invasion on an old episode of I Love Lucy.

A panoramic view of New York City from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, spring 2005

New York Skyride

View from Macy's

The Empire State Building also has a motion simulator attraction, located on the 2nd floor. Opened in 1994 as a complement to the observation deck, the New York Skyride (or NY Skyride) is a simulated aerial tour over the city. The theatrical presentation lasts approximately 25 minutes.

Since its opening, the ride has gone through two incarnations. The original version, which ran from 1994 until around 2002, featured James Doohan, Star Trek's Scotty, as the airplane's pilot, who humorously tried to keep the flight under control during a storm, with the tour taking an unexpected route through the subway, Coney Island, and FAO Schwartz, among other places. After September 11th, however, the ride was closed, and an updated version debuted in mid-2002 with actor Kevin Bacon as the pilot. The new version of the narration attempted to make the attraction more educational, and included some minor post-9/11 patriotic undertones with retrospective footage of the World Trade Center. The new flight also goes haywire, but this segment is much shorter than in the original.

Broadcast stations

New York City is the largest media market in the United States. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, nearly all of the city's commercial broadcast stations (both television and FM radio) have transmitted from the top of the Empire State Building, although a few FM stations are located at the nearby Cond Nast Building. Most New York City AM stations broadcast from just across the Hudson River in New Jersey.

Communications devices for broadcast stations are located at the top of the Empire State Building.

Broadcasting began at Empire on December 22, 1931, when RCA began transmitting experimental television broadcasts from a small antenna erected atop the spire. They leased the 85th floor and built a laboratory there, andn 1934CA was joined by Edwin Howard Armstrong in a cooperative venture to test his FM system from the Empire antenna. When Armstrong and RCA fell out in 1935 and his FM equipment was removed, the 85th floor became the home of RCA's New York television operations, first as experimental station W2XBS channel 1, which eventually became (on July 1, 1941) commercial station WNBT, channel 1 (now WNBC-TV channel 4). NBC's FM station (WEAF-FM, now WQHT) began transmitting from the antenna in 1940. NBC retained exclusive use of the top of the Empire until 1950, when the FCC ordered the exclusive deal broken, based on consumer complaints that a common location was necessary for the (now) seven New York television stations to transmit from so that receiving antennas would not have to be constantly adjusted. Construction on a giant tower began. Other television broadcasters then joined RCA at Empire, on the 83rd, 82nd, and 81st floors, frequently bringing sister FM stations along for the ride. Multiple transmissions of TV and FM began from the new tower in 1951. In 1965, a separate set of FM antennas were constructed ringing the 103rd floor observation area. When the World Trade Center was being constructed, it caused serious problems for the television stations, most of which then moved to the World Trade Center as soon as it was completed. This made it possible to renovate the antenna structure and the transmitter facilities for the benefit of the FM stations remaining there, which were soon joined by other FMs and UHF TVs moving in from elsewhere in the metropolitan area. The destruction of the World Trade Center necessitated a great deal of shuffling of antennas and transmitter rooms in order to accommodate the stations moving back uptown.

As of 2009, the Empire State Building is home to the following stations:

TV: WCBS-TV 2, WNBC-TV 4, WNYW 5, WABC-TV 7, WWOR-TV 9 Secaucus, WPIX-TV 11, WNET 13 Newark, WNYE-TV 25, WPXN-TV 31, WXTV 41 Paterson, WNJU 47 Linden, and WFUT-TV 68 Newark

FM: WXRK 92.3, WPAT-FM 93.1 Paterson, WNYC-FM 93.9, WPLJ 95.5, WXNY 96.3, WQHT-FM 97.1, WSKQ-FM 97.9, WRKS-FM 98.7, WBAI 99.5, WHTZ 100.3 Newark, WCBS-FM 101.1, WRXP 101.9, WWFS 102.7, WKTU 103.5 Lake Success, WAXQ 104.3, WWPR-FM 105.1, WQXR-FM 105.9 Newark, WLTW 106.7, and WBLS 107.5

Empire State Building Run-Up

The Empire State Building Run-Up is a foot race from ground level to the 86th-floor observation deck that has been held annually since 1978. Its participants are referred to both as runners and as climbers, and are often tower running enthusiasts. The race covers a vertical distance of 1,050 feet (320 m) and takes in 1,576 steps. The record time is 9 minutes and 33 seconds, achieved by Australian professional cyclist Paul Crake in 2003, at a climbing rate of 6,593 ft (2,010 m) per hour.

In popular culture

Film

Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death. In 1983, for the 50th anniversary of the film, an inflatable King Kong was placed on the actual building. In 2005, a remake of King Kong was released, set in 1930s New York City, including a final showdown between Kong and bi-planes atop a greatly detailed Empire State Building. (The 1976 remake of King Kong was set in a contemporary New York City and held its climactic scene on the towers of the World Trade Center.)

The 1939 romantic drama film Love Affair involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is averted by an automobile accident. The film was remade in 1957 (as An Affair to Remember) and in 1994 (again as Love Affair). The 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy partially inspired by An Affair to Remember, climaxes with a scene at the Empire State observatory.

Andy Warhol's 1964 silent film Empire is one continuous, eight-hour shot of the Empire State Building at night, shot in black-and-white. In 2004, the National Film Registry deemed its cultural significance worthy of preservation in the Library of Congress.

The film Independence Day features the Empire State Building as ground zero for an alien attack; it is devastated by the aliens' primary weapon which incinerates most of New York City.

Many other movies that feature the Empire State Building are listed on the building's own website.

Television

The Empire State Building featured in the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Chase, in which the TARDIS lands on the roof of the building; The Doctor and his companions leave quite quickly, however, because The Daleks are close behind them. A Dalek is also seen on the roof of the building while it interrogates a human. In 2007, Doctor Who episodes "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" also featured the building, which the Daleks are constructing to use as a lightning conductor. Russell T Davies said in an article that "in his mind", the Daleks remembered the building from their last visit.

The Discovery Channel show MythBusters tested the urban myth which claims that if one drops a penny off the top of the Empire State Building, it could kill someone or put a crater in the pavement. The outcome was that, by the time the penny hits the ground, it is going roughly 65 mph (105 km/h) (terminal velocity for an object of its mass and shape), which is not fast enough to inflict lethal injury or put a crater into the pavement. The urban legend is a joke in the 2003 musical Avenue Q, where a character waiting atop the building for a rendezvous tosses a penny over the sidenly to hit her rival.

Literature

H.G. Wells' 1933 science fiction book The Shape of Things to Come, written in the form of a history book published in the far future, includes the following passage: "Up to quite recently Lower New York has been the most old-fashioned city in the world, unique in its gloomy antiquity. The last of the ancient skyscrapers, the Empire State Building, is even now under demolition in C.E. 2106!".

In the science fiction novel The Rebel of Rhada by Robert Cham Gilman (Alfred Coppel), taking place at a decayed galactic empire of the far future, New York is an ancient city which was destroyed and rebuilt countless times. Its highest and most ancient building, covered with piled-up ruins up to half its height, is known simply as "The Empire Tower", but is obviously the Empire State Building.

David Macaulay's 1980 illustrated book Unbuilding depicts the Empire State Building being purchased by a Middle Eastern billionaire and disassembled piece by piece, to be transported to his home country and rebuilt there.

The Empire State Building is featured prominently as both a setting and integral plot device throughout much of Michael Chabon's 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

In the Percy Jackson book series, Mount Olympus is located over the Empire State Building, and there is a special elevator in the building to the "600th floor," which is supposed to be Olympus.

Tenants

Notable tenants of the building include:

Alitalia, Suite 3700

Croatian National Tourist Board, Suite 4003

Filipino Reporter, Suite 601

Human Rights Watch, 34th Floor

Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Suite 4621           

Senegal Tourist Office, Suite 3118

TAROM, Suite 1410

The King's college, Suite 1500

Former tenants include:

China National Tourist Office (now located at 370 Lexington Avenue)

National Film Board of Canada (now located at 1123 Broadway)

Nathaniel Branden Institute

Gallery

A view upward of the Empire State Building from Broadway

The top of the Empire State Building

Looking up

Looking Down

Looking towards Times Square

Art deco elevators in the lobby

Panoramic view of Midtown Manhattan from observation deck

The Empire State Building lights up in yellow and red during the 60th anniversary of the PRC

See also

New York City portal

World's tallest free standing structure on land

History of tallest skyscrapers

List of skyscrapers

List of tallest buildings by U.S. state

References

Notes

^ a b The Empire State Building is located within the 10001 zip code area, but 10118 is assigned as the building's own zip code. Source: USPS.

^ National Geodetic Survey datasheet KU3602, Retrieved 2009-07-26

^ a b Willis, Carol (1995). "Empire State Building". in Kenneth T. Jackson. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT & London & New York: Yale University Press & The New-York Historical Society. pp. 375376. 

^ ESBNYC.com

^ Pollak, Michael (April 23, 2006). "75 YEARS: F. Y. I.". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EEDD153FF930A15757C0A9609C8B63&scp=4&sq="empire state building" height 1,454&st=cse. Retrieved 2009-10-31. 

^ SkyscraperPage  Empire State Building, antenna height source: CTBUH, top floor height source: Empire State Building Company LLC

^ a b Rosenberg, Jennifer. "Empire State Building Trivia and Cool Facts". About.com. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/empirefacts.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-08. 

^ a b White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot; AIA Guide to New York City, 4th Edition; New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Crown Publishers. 2000. p.226.

^ a b "Empire State Building". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-11. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1842&ResourceType=Building. 

^ Carolyn Pitts (April 26, 1985). "Empire State Building"" (PDF). National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Park Service. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/82001192.pdf. 

^ "Empire State Buildingccompanying 7 photos, exterior and interior, from 1978." (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory. National Park Service. 1985-04-26. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/82001192.pdf. 

^ W&H Properties  Empire State Building

^ Skyscrapers Becoming More Eco-Friendly In Hopes to Lure Tenants

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. 

^ Reynolds Building. Retrieved November 15, 2008.

^ Cincinnati Skyscrapers, Waymarketing.com

^ "Thirteen Months to Go", Geraldine B. Wagner, 2003, Quintet Publishing Ltd., pg. 32

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^ about.com  Empire State Building Trivia and Cool Facts

^ "Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 19301931 (New York Public Library Photography Collection)"

^ "Icarus, high up on Empire State; Lewis Wickes Hine, New York Public Library Photography Collection"

^ Tower Lights History Retrieved 2007-12-16

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^ ew York: A Documentary Film.

^ a b Shanor, Rebecca read (1995). "Unbuilt projects". in Kenneth T. Jackson. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, CT & London & New York: Yale University Press & The New-York Historical Society. pp. 12081209. 

^ Goldman, Jonathan (1980). The Empire State Building Book. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 44. 

^ "750th Squadron 457th Bombardment Group: Officers 1943 to 1945". http://www.457thbombgroup.org/New/750thSquad.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 

^ "Empire State Building Withstood Airplane Impact"

^ "Plane Hits Building  Woman Survives 75-Story Fall"

^ guinnessworldrecords.com

^ "The Day A Bomber Hit The Empire State Building". National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92987873. Retrieved 2008-07-28. "Eight months after the crash, the U.S. government offered money to families of the victims. Some accepted, but others initiated a lawsuit that resulted in landmark legislation. The Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946, for the first time, gave American citizens the right to sue the federal government." 

^ Glanz, James and Eric Lipton (2002-09-08). "The Height of Ambition". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E2DD1F3FF93BA3575AC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=10. 

^ iht.com

^ Compass American Guides: Manhattan, 4th Edition. Reavill, Gil and Zimmerman, Jean P. 160.

^ George H. Douglas, Skyscrapers, p. 173

^ Empire State Building New York.com: Empire State Building Suicides

^ Geoffrey Broughton, Expressions, p. 32

^ The Empire State Building Book, Jonathan Goldman, St. Martin's Press, 1980, p.63

^ Empire State Building: Official internet Site

^ Lelyveld, Joseph (February 23, 1964). "The Empire State to Glow at Night". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B11FE385F137A8EDDAA0A94DA405B848AF1D3. 

^ thevillager.com

^ a b Empire State Building lighting schedule

^ espn.com

^ Washington Post

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^ Empire State Building Goes Green for Muslim Holiday

^ Empire State adorns yellow to celebrate The Simpsons Movie

^ http://www.broadway.com/Empire-State-Building-Goes-Green-for-Wicked-Birthday-Final-Yellow-Brick-Road-Cast-Announced/broadway_news/5013909

^ a b https://www.esbnyc.com/tickets/index.cfm?CFID=28691766&CFTOKEN=35278567

^ "Ten Things Not to Do in New York"

^ NYRR Empire State Building Run-Up Crowns Dold and Walsham as Champions, New York Road Runners

^ Empire State Building  Past Race Winners

^ www.esbnyc.com

^ http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301391h.html

^ a b c d e f g h "Foreigners flocking to 350 Fifth Avenue." Real Estate Weekly. June 30, 2004.

^ "FAQ." Alitalia (United States website). Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ "Claims and Suggestions." Alitalia (United States website). Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ Home page. Croatian National Tourist Board. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ "Contact." Filipino Reporter. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ "Contact." Human Rights Watch. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ Home Page. Polish Cultural Institute in New York. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ Information Senegal Tourist Office. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ "Travel Agencies for plane tickets to Romania." Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ "The King's College". http://www.tkc.edu/. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 

^ "Contact Us." China National Tourist Office. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ "Contact us." National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved September 4, 2008.

^ In Answer to Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden at his ex-wife's website

Further reading

Aaseng, Nathan. (1999). Construction: Building the Impossible. Minneapolis, MN: Oliver Press. ISBN 1-881-50859-5.

Bascomb, Neal. (2003). Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50660-0.

Goldman, Jonathan. (1980). The Empire State Building Book. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-24455-X.

James, Theodore, Jr. (1975). The Empire State Building. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-060-12172-6.

Kingwell, Mark. (2006). Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10622-X.

Pacelle, Mitchell. (2001). Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-40394-6.

Tauranac, John. (1995). The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-19678-6.

Wagner, Geraldine B. (2003). Thirteen Months to Go: The Creation of the Empire State Building. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press. ISBN 1-592-23105-5.

Willis, Carol (ed). (1998). Building the Empire State. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-73030-1.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Empire State Building

Look up Empire State Building in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Empire State Building official Web site

Commercial Construction.com

Lighting Schedule

Empire State Building Green Retrofit

Empire State Building Trivia

Empire State Building Information

The Construction of the Empire State Building, 19301931, New York Public Library

VIVA2, The Skyscraper Museum's online archive of over 500 construction photographs of the Empire State Building.

NYC Insider Guide, Empire State Building vs. Top of the Rock compare views.

Empire State Building at Structurae

Records

Preceded by

Chrysler Building

World's tallest structure

1931  1954

Succeeded by

KWTV Mast

World's tallest freestanding structure on land

1931  1967

Succeeded by

Ostankino Tower

Tallest building in the world

1931  1972

Succeeded by

World Trade Center

Tallest building in the United States

1931  1972

Tallest Building in New York City

1931  1972

Preceded by

World Trade Center

Tallest Building in New York City

2001  present

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Benefits Program:.
1) TCM doctor will go over. 10 years old and famous in China in acupuncture or in tuina or internal medicine.

2) the medical treatment every day in out patient department. And patients in the department;

3) Talking with real patients in their feelings before and after treatment;

4) direct discussion with a doctor in the case;

5) Personal site interpreters with professional degrees. TCM;

6) TCM subjects such as acupuncture, tuina,. Herbal medicine is within your request. From the background and TCM;

7? Free program starting at the request;

Of practice

• Treatment Techniques with acupuncture and Moxibustion.
• Tech Therapy Tuina.
• Media treatment of food and other
• Observing systems diagnosed. - Odor - Ask - Pulse and tongue.

Property

• TCM Hospital of life experienced with China dcotors.
• TCM Hospital of the chinese.
• English translation included.
• Cover the main TCM treatment skills.
• 6 hours per day 5 days / week
• Immersion and contact with local culture and environment.

Evaluation and certification.
Certificate Will be released at the end of the program.

Accommodation
Allied Gateway accommodation carefully selected for safety and comfort. The program depends on the chosen accommodation.

Is advisable to confirm your registration. Allied Gateway as soon as possible to secure accommodation.
Hotel
Single rooms. Rooms furnished with beds. TV, telephone, bathroom, desk and air conditioning We give you free internet. PC not included.
One bedroom apartment.
Good apartment includes a bedroom area with Separate kitchen and bathroom. TV, microwave, refrigerator, air conditioning. Washing machines and furniture is well advanced. PC not included.

* This option is for the program longer. 6 month

Airport.
Allied Gateway. Airport service free to -. Get - up for the program participants. Our team will meet you at the door after you get luggage and take you to your accommodation. You will need to provide the correct flight. - Number of flights / airport name. / 2 weeks before the start. The smooth, make sure you get contact numbers. Allied Gateway to China before in the case of last-minute changes.

What is included.

• Certificate
• Accommodation
• Arrival airport - Pickup
• Packing list instructions.
• package Orientation.
  • Map of Shanghai and China
  • Shanghai's subway map.
  • English / Chinese menu
  • 24-hour/7-day. Emergency card with information staff.
• Orientation
• Bank account established.
• Help exchange.
• 24-hours/7-days. Emergency support.
• site -. On the help of Allied Gateway.

How to Apply.
Application, you must meet. Below

First 18 years of age.
Two have graduated high school.
Three are healthy.

About the Author

Mandarin, TCM, Acupuncture, Tuina, Qigong, Taiji, Kung Fu courses in China

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hi i am planing to Shanghai or Tokyo. With fiancee and I want to. Help end here thanks?

hi guys now have a one. Best to go to Tokyo. Or Shanghai hotel. Would you like to suggest that i saw. Good price on priceline anyone try before. Or blank i am totaly lost here I do not. Want to spend my money. I am certain that boring or ugly. i want to have fun more hotels. Exciting. Issued a new travel pleasse help. I thank you.

Of course I am. In Shanghai and found the city. Very interesting. Really it. With the purpose of. And as you travel. It depends on your budget. Of you. You can find the hotel. Shanghai has been very good. It's very easy to find hotel. Good night for less than $ 100. - Hotels in Hua Shan Road Xinguo a good one. Taxi and a subway. Very cheap. Many restaurants. Good and relatively good prices. Tokyo is also interesting. But very very expensive experience. That's my limit.

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I don't understand the prices for apartments in Shanghai on Craigslist, can someone explain "CNY"

Okay, I'm wanting to move to China for a little while, so I've been looking for places on Craigslist. The prices, though, aren't expressed in U.S. dollars, and I don't know how to interpret them. Here's a couple examples:

CNY7500 New Flats Daily, Weekly & Monthly Apartments by Owner Incredible View

CNY2300 350RMB/day, 2300RMB/week Hot Apartment Hotel Near Zhongshan Park Owner

CNY5500 Short/Long Terms – 75 sqm Furnished, Incredible View By Owner L@@K
But hwo much is that in U.S. $dollars?

$1=7 CNY

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Interview With an American Photojournalist in China

Q&A with Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People

American photojournalist Tom Carter has spent the past four years in the People’s Republic of China, traversing all 33 provinces and autonomous regions not just once but twice. The San Francisco native’s hardback book, a definitive 800-image volume aptly entitled CHINA: Portrait of a People, is due out this winter from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith books. Tom took a day off from travelling to discuss the challenges of taking pictures in China, how he evaded censorship in the tightly-controlled republic, and to share a few insider tips on visiting what is to become the world’s largest tourism market.

Your upcoming book focuses heavily on photographs of people, from peasants to punk rockers, ethnic groups to entrepreneurs. As a lone foreigner in a faraway country, how did you approach so many strangers, let alone become intimate enough with them to take their portraits?

Most of my photos came about as a natural result of my curiosity and interaction with chinese people during my travels. It wasn't until the end of my trip that I thought about compiling them into a book. This is a tribute to all the people I met along the way. For the portraits, it just takes a sincere interest in your subjects to get that close. I don't believe in hiding behind a zoom lens; I was actually as near to all those people as you see in the pictures, sometimes just inches away. The candid life shots, which comprise a good third of the book, were actually more of a challenge. As a foreigner walking down the street in China, all activity stops the moment you are seen, so it’s tricky to photograph life before life stops to stare at you.

I don’t believe any book can capture the true spirit of a country with only pictures of places. Sure, a photo of a sunset over the Great Wall is nice, but what do you really learn from it? I wanted to show the people, and dispel the stereotype of the Chinese as a homogeneous single nationality.

You must speak the language pretty well.

That's the very first question I always get from other expats I meet in China! It humbles me to admit that my Putonghua borders on offensively poor. I taught English when I first arrived in China, which left me no time to formally study mandarin. I picked up my entire vocabulary while travelling. I call it Survival Chinese. I can communicate, but I'm usually left out of the gossiping granny circles. A friendly smile works well when all else fails. I might add, though, that Chinese dialects vary widely by province, so even most nationals have trouble understanding other Chinese outside their own hometowns.

You say you came to China as an English teacher, but four years later you’re a published photojournalist and author. Did you plan this career move?

Never, but that’s China for you, a real land of opportunity. teaching was just a means to an end, which was travelling. Out of that first long year on the road sprung my collection of photos, which resulted in a book contract and travel assignments from various periodicals, which brought me full circle back to my second spin around China. I believe I stand apart from my contemporaries in that I'm not sitting around a cushy foreign correspondents’ club "networking" [makes mock quotes with his fingers] and waiting for my next assignment; I'm out on the road finding my own. But maybe that’s why Reuters still hasn’t called me.

You’ve had a few run-ins with Chinese censorship of your images and articles. Care to share?

The concept of Freedom of the Press, something the west takes for granted, is still entirely alien in Communist China. The media is state-run and every single word and image that comes in and out of the country needs to be approved by the Ministry of Information. Crazy, huh? But since I’m an independent freelancer without the backing of any news agency, I lack official journalist credentials. Most of my images I've had to get the hard way, which has often resulted in confrontations with local authorities who view foreign correspondents as a threat.

For example, for the three single frames of coal miners with soot-covered faces that appear in this book, I and my Chinese travelling companion had to spend several days in the mountains of South Shanxi before we were able to sneak into a coal mine, grab a few shots then get the hell out before being caught. Mining is one of the most dangerous and controversial occupations in China, and is entirely off limits to journalists. Some of my best photos are hit-and-run like that.

There’s one incident in particular I want to hear about: a peasant riot that you photographed and which almost got you arrested. Tell us about that. To be caught up in a proletarian uprising – something both foreign and Chinese reporters in China rarely even hear about, due to rapid suppression of information, let alone eye-witness – was extremely frightening but probably one of the book’s most powerful images. I was subsequently "implored" by the local police to hand over all my photos, under penalty of incarceration, but a couple have managed to slip into the book [winks mischievously]. I'm still in China and would like to be able to leave without a trip to the clink, so it’s not something I can talk about in further detail, nor can we make the photo public until the book is on the shelves.

Guerilla-style documentary photography is something you are obviously proud of. Someone said you have "turned mundane daily life in China into a work of art" but one reviewer wrote that your photographs are "an assault on ordinary people who should be left alone." What's your take on such extreme responses?

Which one was the criticism? [Laughs] Actually, I prefer the term ‘street photography’, because that's exactly what I do. I'm out pounding the pavement from 6am to 6pm every day, learning about the culture through observation and interaction. Many photojournalists cover their assignments as quickly as possible so they can remove themselves from the elements, but I revel in the elements. I don’t have any technical or artistic preconceptions to my photos. The whole idea of spending an hour setting up a shot and then photoshopping it to death afterwards is not what I'm about. I just capture life as it is, then move on. If the picture turns out crooked, so what! Life is crooked!

I have no desire to make something palatable, even if it means not getting on Getty. On the other hand, any of my photos that are considered beautiful I credit entirely to my subjects. They are the ones who deserve the compliments.

China really is a vast country to explore, and you have been to every corner of it – 33 provinces and over 200 cities and villages. Travelling for a living sounds like a life of leisure, but what’s the reality?

You know, for all the tourism I’ve promoted for China with my photos and travel articles, you’d think the CNTA [China National Tourism Administration] could at least have comped my hotels. But the truth is I’ve never received a cent in financial backing. During the two years I spent travelling across China, I slept in 15 RMB [2 USD] flophouses with particleboard walls – which are illegal for foreigners to stay in – with the occasional youth hostel or night on a bus station floor. I taught English for two straight years beforehand so I could save up to travel, and I really had to pinch my pennies to make it last. The upside is that my insolvency resulted in experiences that staying at the Sheraton could never produce.

All travellers are running away from something. What's your excuse?

I come from a long line of nomads – my mother a Danish immigrant of good Viking stock and my father a hybrid Panamanian-Cuban-Italian – so drifting is in my blood. It’s my dream to travel the world, take pictures and write about it. I have no intention of succumbing to that thirtysomething syndrome of settling down. The world is my home.

So what day-to-day difficulties did you encounter during your marathon journey across China?

You mean hour-to-hour difficulties. My photos might excite a lot of potential tourists, but I'm not going to sugar-coat the reality of actually travelling in China. The consensus among backpackers is that China is probably the single most challenging country in the world to navigate. Aside from the obvious language barriers, you have 5,000-year old customs and extreme cultural differences that can be quite vexing for the typical westerner. Most of these nuances are not something that you can catch on film; travellers have to discover them for themselves, and that’s part of the fun.

What keeps you going?

I delight in the challenges that a country like China poses to westerners. Sure, I occasionally catch myself pounding the wall in frustration, but the thing about the PRC is that every turn is a new adventure. For me there’s nothing worse than being bored, and boredom is just not possible in China. See these lines on my face? They weren’t there before.

How did you plan your routes?

I haven’t planned a single route since I arrived in China four years ago. I just point myself in a direction, then let life carry me on its current. Not only does every Chinese person you ask where to go have an excitedly different opinion – even about which way is north – but there are so many undiscovered villages that are off the charts. Not to mention that the time it takes to get to these places is often days longer than how it appears on a map, making an itinerary kind of pointless.

Tell us more about surprises along the way, and any dangerous situations you’ve been in.

Surprises are the rule, not the exception. In addition to clashes with the authorities over my pictures, I’ve had everything from a near-lethal bout of encephalitis during my first year in China, to getting shanghaied by crooked English schools, which I wrote about for the Wall Street Journal. One of my favourites is the time I found myself at the business end of a North Korean machine gun when I accidentally crossed into the DPRK at Changbaishan. These are all stories I can laugh about now, though my mother doesn't think so.

It’s said that China is now undergoing the most prolonged period of sustained change in history. How has it changed since you have lived there, and how will it change in the near future?

I think China's most dramatic changes have been brought on by itself and that the now-clichéd term "New China" was something methodically planned out in their boardrooms. The Chinese government is addicted to what I call hyper-urbanization. You’ve got historic cities like Beijing, where they are bulldozing these ancient hutongs by the hour so they can build office towers, or the 2,000-year-old village of Gongtan in Chongqing that is going to be levelled this summer for a new power plant. I wrote an article about Gongtan for a local magazine but it was quickly quashed because the censorship bureau said "We don’t want to bring any attention to that place." These contrasts in architecture appear in my book because I feel it is imperative to capture this last glimpse of China’s old slate rooftops before the skyline becomes pure steel and glass. CHINA: Portrait of a People will probably become a history book, something Chinese people will look at twenty years from now and say "Ah yes, I remember."

It seems like everyone wants to know more about China these days. Do you see more people planning on visiting the country?

China will become the world’s largest tourism destination of the next decade, no doubt about it. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and Shanghai’s World Expo in 2010 are expected to attract between 50 to 100 million tourists annually. China’s doors were closed for so long that it’s only natural the world is curious about what’s behind them. What the pictures in Portrait of a People are doing is fuelling this curiosity by offering an intimate glimpse of humanity in China, and scenes of daily life that even publications like National Geographic overlook.

You’re something of an authority now on Chinese travel. Can you offer any tips for travellers?

Well, what China wants tourists to see is often at variance with what is actually marvellous about the country. You’ve got these highly-sheltered tour group packages that cover the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi, a boat ride on the Yangtze and shopping in Shanghai [makes yawning noise]. Or you can remove yourself from the souvenir shops and luxury hotels, get a local street map and travel on word-of-mouth. Lonely Planet would go bankrupt if people actually took my travel advice, but you definitely see more of the real China my way.

Finally, what's next for someone who’s been everywhere in China?

My publisher and I have been talking about taking the "Portrait of a People" concept to other countries in the region. I would jump at the chance. So I have no idea where I’ll be this time next year.

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About the Author

TOM CARTER is the author of 'CHINA: Portrait of a People,' a definitive 600-page book of photography to be published by Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books.

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Suggest a location / accommodation. / Hotels / in Shanghai,. What is China.

I plan. Going to see F1 Sinopec chinese Grand Prix in October 2007. 1.. These hotels / dormitories nearby. Please provide the name or location. 2. My budget is less than. $ 40 per night. Is in the best accommodation. Or not. 3 after visit. ตุลาคม 5-7, I plan to tour. Shanghai 8-9 October. What. Is hotel / accommodation is suitable. For travel (can. Access and Attractions near). 4. If I do not China will be difficult to ride. Train and learn how. Turn 5. What to see or. To do in Shanghai? Thank you. For your answer:).

Me. Sorry that I can help. You with us to # 5 .. very Shanghai. But always on business. Therefore, the company's dime. I am only familiar with. Cheap hotels more. For to - see:. Do not miss the Jade Buddha. It. A little way out. .. Bit of walk from the train station. Underground .. cab .. but you can use. toally worth it. sure. Eat the dumplings and vegetarian restaurants. hte internal measurements. (and be good to!). Beautiful reclining Buddha. Check. And to ensure that top. For a free demonstration of the tea house. teas. (not a bad price if you are. Want to buy both) Yuyyuan garden, but good. If you are in the tons. Tour buses are not women. Streaming through the crowd after crowd. Door! Area outside the park. Is filled with stores and. Food fun .. fun bargaining. Prices for. Across the Pearl tower. Bring. Images from the outside. IT cost estimates. $ 12 USD to the top and you will look real. Long lines have been all the way up. It seems at first, but soon. In each level you have to wait. Again. But you can use. Lift up to 54 storey Jin Mao. Tower for free .. this is. The start of Hotel Grand Hyatt. Just. Just walk in the restaurant. Last reception desk and see. Budget may be up for coffee. The view is worth it ... By subway. Line 2 to Nanjing East stop. And walk around .. especially on. Weekends. Everyone. About to leave. (Source Workshop. Shopping eat and walk, etc.) then told others. Me and the Shanghai acrobats. Tourist Attractions to. Each clear tunnnel .. touristy and luxury. But in each of my own. If. Would you like aquariums, Shanghai. Horror. It's a tunnel. Under water the longest in the world. (155 m) We are one of hte. Melbourne last December. And I think that is TOPS. Sue I've been to. Enjoy!

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