About Fuzhou city

Located in the lower reaches of the Min River, the capital city of Fujian Province, Fuzhou City is situated in the eastern part of the Province. Fuzhou, the center of economic, political, cultural and transportation of Fujian Province, was so named after a mountain situated in the north called Mt. Fu. Additionally, many banyans were planted in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and now provide shade for the entire city giving it another good name – Rong Cheng (Banyan City). Besides, the city is renowned for both quality and quantity of hot springs throughout China. The cultured sights of Fuzhou are not as overwhelming as many of the top attractions in China, but the modern infrastructures of supporting establishments for tourism are complete, and a dazzling array of local dishes and snacks await your patronage.
Fuzhou has an land area of 11,968 square kilometers, and a population of 4.8 million. It is devided into five districts : gulou , taijiang, cangshan, mawei, jinanandit governs two city : minghou , fuqing and six counties: liangjian, changle, pingtan, luoyuan, yongtai, mingqing.
Fuzhou is both a historic and a cultural city with an over two-thousand-year of history and in 908, Fuzhou was expanded. This expansion included Mt. Yu, Mt. Wu and Mt. Ping within its jurisdiction. The city is also prosperous in culture, from the Tang (618-907) through to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); there were thousands of Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations) from Fuzhou. Many celebrated figures from Chinese history also hailed from this land, and thus, the birth of heroes also brings glory to such a place. Because of its long and flourishing history, there are many arts related industries represented, including the Three Treasures of Fuzhou (lacquer work, stone sculpting and cork cutting), a featured dining culture, and also traditional arts including Min Opera, etc. which still take an important role in today’s Chinese culture.
The climate of Fuzhou is comfortable, affording tourists the opportunity to visit the city all the year round, especially between April and November. Fuzhou is a tourist city that boasts both natural and manmade sights. Famous mountains include Mt.Gu, Qi, Shizhu, Baiyan and Xuefeng etc. Famous temples include Yongquan, Xichan, Linyang, Fahai and Yunju etc. Famous tombs like Tomb of Lin Zexu etc. Famous gardens include West Lake etc. Famous towers include the White, Wu and Luoxing etc. and famous bridges including Wanshou and Longjiang etc. and also many former residences of celebrated historical figures. You may find that there are far too many things to see here in o¬ne short trip.
Here we have a simple introduction of orientation for guiding tourists’ first trip through downtown Fuzhou. In terms of geography, the center of Fuzhou City is Wuyi Square and Dongjiekou is the commercial center of downtown Fuzhou. From railway station bus No. 20 will take tourists to Dongjiekou, Bus No. 51 will bring tourists to the crossing of Wusi Lu and Hudong Lu – the financial center of Fuzhou, and bus No. 821 will take tourists to Jinshan, the new expanded city area.
The tourism industry of Fuzhou with its sustainable, fast and healthy development is being perfected day by day. In this coastal city, the reception establishments related to tourism are modern. At present, there are over 80 stared hotels, and the recreational facilities are too numerous to mention. The transportation network of Fuzhou is well developed and incorporates the road, rail, water and aviation networks, providing your trip to Fuzhou with convenient all-around access.
Fuzhou will continue to develop its prosperous, modern and well rounded tourism industry. With its ancient culture and exquisite sights, the city welcomes the global tourist and we hope Fu (meaning good fortune in Chinese) zhou will both bless you and bring you back.
city traffic
By Air
Fuzhou Changle International Airport (FOC) is situated in a sandy area of southeast Zhanggang Town, Changle City, some 47kilometers (about 34 miles) from downtown Fuzhou, and is a modern, seashore based international airport. There are now approximately 75 airlines operating out of FOC, including 65 domestic services, 2 regional airlines and 8 international services at this airport. Domestic services include flights from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Jinan, Shenyang, Harbin, Chongqing, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Kunming, Haikou, Urumqi and Xian, etc. International services include flights from Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Osaka to Fuzhou City. There are also daily scheduled flights from Hong Kong and Macau.
Tourists are advised to take the safe and comfortable airport bus which will take between o¬ne to o¬ne and a half hours to downtown Fuzhou and will cost about 25 Yuan per person to the Apollo Hotel, located o¬n Wuyi Lu, Fuzhou City. If you want to take a taxi, the cost can be negotiated, but will be between 100 and 120 Yuan. Returning to the airport from downtown Fuzhou, tourists can take the airport bus from the Apollo Hotel, or make a reservation for a taxi stopping at Apollo Hotel the day prior to departure and negotiate a price, which will far be far more reasonable than for you to stop a taxi o¬n the road the day of your flight.
Fuzhou Changle International Airport Enquiry: (0591) 28013246
By Train
Fuzhou Railway Station is the transportation hub of Fujian Province. It is located at the north end of Hualin Lu, in the northern part of the Fuzhou downtown area. Fuzhou station is connected with the national railway network and operates services to Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Nanchang, Guiyang, Changsha, Hefei, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Shenzhen. Also there are tourist lines from Nanping, Longyan, Yong’an and Wuyi Shan to Fuzhou.
Fuzhou Railway Station Ticket Office: 0591-87577849
From Fuzhou Railway Station, tourists may take bus Nos. 5, 17, 20, 26, 51, 821, 905, 917, 949 and 951, also Yaxiya Zhuanxian (Asia Special Line), Xi Er’ huan Zhuanxian (Western 2nd Ring Road Special Line) to Fuzhou downtown for the ticket of 1 yuan.
Train tickets can be bought in the ticket office usually seven days prior to the departure date. During some traditional festivals like Spring Festival, tourists can buy the ticket eight days or more in advance. The main ticket offices in the downtown area are as follow.
Wuyi Ticket Office: 142, Wuyi Lu (opposite the Drum Tower Hospital)
Hualin Ticket Office: 203, Hualin Lu
Tangcheng Da Sha Ticket Office: 215, Wuyi Nan Lu (1/F, Tangcheng Dasha)
By long–distance Bus
South Long-Distance Bus Station opened inter-province highways between Fuzhou and Weihai, Weifang, Ningbo, Guilin, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Haikou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Hong Kong and Shantou run every day. And the lines between Fuzhou and Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Yantai run o¬nce every two days.
Address: 190, Wuyi Zhong Lu
North Long-Distance Bus Station is situated at No. 371, Hualin Lu, Gu Lou Qu
Hongshan Passenger Transport West Station
Address: Hongshan Chenguang Cun
By Ship
Located in the lower reaches of the Min River, Fuzhou is an old estuary harbor. The Min Rive sea route of Fuzhou is from Nanping to Mawei, the passenger liners of Mawei harbor can bring you to Mt. Putuo, Ningbo etc. Out of the east estuary of the Min River, tourists can get passage to the main ports of the Yangtze River, north to Shanghai and Qinhuangdao, south to Xiamen and Hong Kong and east to Keelung in Taiwan. There are buses and tourist line in Mawei harbor that will take tourists to downtown Fuzhou and some of the sights in Fuzhou City.
Taxi
There are almost four-thousand taxies in Fuzhou which are mainly of the model types Santana and Fukang. The cost is general the same among the large and middle sized cities. The flag-down rate of a Santana is 8 Yuan for the first 3 kilometers (about 1.9 miles), then 1.8 yuan for each additional kilometer. A Fukang is 7 Yuan for the first 3 kilometers, and then 1.4 yuan per kilometer. After 11 pm, the flag-down rate will be increased by 0.8 Yuan.
Bus
It is very convenient for tourists to go around the Fuzhou downtown area by bus. The ticket price is 1 Yuan; tourists should prepare small change prior to boarding, the price increases to 2 Yuan from May 15th to Oct 15th if the bus is operating its air conditioning.

city festival
The AO Nine festival:
The festival is o¬n the 29th day of the first lunar month , it is a unique traditional festival in Fuzhou city.
On this day, every family usually boil congee which is called “ao nine congee” with the glutinous rice, the brown sugar ,raw materials , peanut, red jujube, water chestnut ,sesame seed, dried longan and so o¬n.. the congee is used for the ancestral worship or gifts to relatives and friends. In addition, a married daughter must send a bowl of “ao nine congee” to her parents, some must add o¬n the peace noodles, eggs, and the pig’s feet and so o¬n.
In addition, if someone’s age meets nine, like nine year old, 19 year old, 29 years old ……(said that “bright nine”), perhaps nine multiples, like 18 year old, 27 year old, 36 years old (call “years which are multiples of nine”), he must eats a bowl of “the peaceful noodles” .it is in order to avoid evilness and be safe and healthy .In the Fuzhou people’s traditional ideas, the number nine is not lucky.

About the university
The university, located in Fuzhou, the capital city of Fujian Province, serves as a center for teaching, research, treatment, and prevention, and provides other social services. It was founded in 1937. Currently it has two campuses in Shangjie and Taijiang, with a total land area of about 87 hectares and a building area of 379,000 square meters.
At present, the university comprises 19 schools and departments, which offer 23 undergraduate programs, 22 doctorate programs, 59 master programs, and 2 authorized master degree specialties. In addition to its extensive academic programs, the university has established an efficient clinical teaching and practice network, composed of 1 stomatological hospital, 26 clinical teaching hospitals and 10 affiliated hospitals, of which 9 are ranked among the first-rank hospitals. In 2003 it was designated by Fujian Provincial Government as the university for key construction and development. In the same year, it passed the evaluation for undergraduate education organized by the Ministry of Education.
Currently, it has a total number of more than 20,000 full-time students, including approximately 2,000 postgraduates, and 10,000 undergraduates. It is also entitled to recruit students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and students from foreign countries for its undergraduate programs.
There is a total number of 5,398 faculty, staff members and medical personnel in the university. Of the 835 full-time teachers, 58% have possessed master’s degrees, and 55.1% the title of associate professor or full professor. There are 65 doctoral supervisors, 482 master supervisors, 100 recipients of special subsidies from the State Council, 5 teachers selected by national "Millions of Talents Program", 4 experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 3 experts with outstanding contributions awarded by the Health Ministry, 3 recipients of "Excellent Young Teachers Prize by the Ministry of Education", 8 teachers supported by the "Project of Leading Teacher Foundation of the Ministry of Education", 17 chosen as "Outstanding Specialists in Fujian Province", 64 selected by "Fujian Millions of Talents Program", 4 teachers awarded "University Teaching Masters in Fujian Province", 28 recipients of "Cross Century Talents Foundation for Higher Education in Fujian Province", and 2 teams awarded "Provincial Innovation Groups of Higher Education".
The university has also attached great importance to academic research. It hosts 1 post-doctor clinical research center, 65 research institutions, 2 provincial "Project 211" key disciplines, 13 provincial key disciplines, 8 disciplines of prior development designated by Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology, 6 key disciplines at school level, 6 provincial key medical specialties, 5 provincial leading specialties with medical characteristics and 3 key laboratories designated by Fujian Province, which have undertaken great scientific tasks, and made remarkable achievements. Since 2001, more than 100 scientific research programs have been rewarded, over 5,500 papers published, with 86 of them recorded in SCI, and 45 academic works issued as well. The University has published and issued several academic journals to readers at home and abroad, including .The university library, as the main medical library of Fujian province, holds an area of 25,233 square meters and a collection of 1, 53 million volumes.
The university has developed collaborative relationships for scientific research and talents training with some universities and medical research institutes from the United States, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia, and Canada and so on. In the past 5 years, more than 160 groups, as well as 700 people from the United States, Japan, etc. have visited the university, given lectures and carried out other academic activities. Over 20 overseas alumni have taken posts in colleges, departments or research institutes of the university, with 110 experts and alumni engaged as its guest professors.
Employment Package
Requirements on Foreign teacher/expert

Gender：■unspecific
Education：■bachelor at least
Major：■linguistics/literature ■education –related
Working Experience：■ at least 2-year teaching experience in or out of China
Kind of Teacher：■teacher/expert
Age：■25-60
Nationality：■USA ■UK ■Canada ■Australian
Language：■English
Vacancy：■5Five
Contract Terms
Is the school SAFEA authorized to employ：■ yes
The time the employment contract be offered：■before the arrival
Contract time：■ from March 1st,2010 to January 15th,2011
Can the teacher remain on school premises during holiday period if one year contract：■yes
Starting time：March1st,2010
Working place：■on campus
Workload：■ 16class hours per week (50minutes per class hour)
Courses：■spoken English ■conversation ■reading ■writing ■American and British literature
Monthly salary：■RMB5500yuan
Airfare allowance(RMB)：■10000yuan
National holiday allowance(RMB)：■2800yuan
What time to reimburse the airfare allowance：■ on the completion of the contract
Meals：■cooling utensils provided
Will the school organize a friendly Bank Account： ■ yes
Boarding place：■on campus (teaching and living is possibly not on the same campus )
Transport：■school bus/bus
boarding：■apartment
Is the accommodation“FAO Approved”for foreigners：■yes
Is accommodation self-contained:■ yes
The floor space：__60 （Square meter）
Inside the accommodation：
■Two bedrooms ■ One sitting Room ■Bathroom/Toilet ■European Toilet ■Shower
■Kitchen ■Color TV ■Telephone (IDD) ■ (CCTV9) English Channel
■Refrigerator ■Complete set of furniture ■Washing Machine
■24-hour supply of electricity/hot/water ■Air conditioning ■Microwave/oven
■A-Z miscellaneous items (bedding, blanket, pillow, towel,
sleeper, etc.)■All kinds of cooking utilities (plates, glasses, cups, pots, pans)
With the accommodation, who pays for:
Water：■teacher
Electricity：■teacher
Phone local：■ teacher
Long distance：■ teacher
Internet connection：■ teacher
Can relatives and friends visit the teacher at school: ■yes

If being interested in this position, please send the following materials to Doris at doriscn01@yahoo.com

required materials for applicants:
1.detailed resume
2.one recent life photo
3.recommendation letters
4.copy of passport/ highest academic diploma/ TESL certificate

Attention: we will not get you back if you can’t meet application requirements and fail to forward complete required materials. Thanks for your cooperation and hope you have a wonderful experience in China.


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