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Local specialties

Description of "Our Community"

Cangxi County is part of Guangyuan City in Sichuang Province of China. Cangxi County is located in the fringe of Sichuan Basin, in the south foot of Big Ba Mountain. The area is 2339.22 kilometers, covering East Longitude from 105°43′ to 106°28′,North Latitude from 31°37′ to32°37′. It is surrounded by five counties(cities) and one district: eastside is Nanjiang County and Bazhou District; southside is Langzhong City; Westside is Jiage County; northside is Wangcang County and Yuanba District. Until 2002, the population was about 770,000, 99% of which was Han People, and the other 1% was about 660 persons including Zang, Hui, Zhaoxie, Tujia, Man, Bai, Yao, Qiang, Miao, Mongolian, Buyi minority groups. Jiangling River goes through Cangxi, which gives Cangxi a beautiful scenery with water and mountains. Cangxi was called ''pure city in north Sichuan'' in the ancient time and is called ''green home of pear'' nowadays. Cangxi has a long history, and the people here continued to fight for the better lives. The living conditions experienced great changes, from the situation that only a very few people could afford their own houses to the situation that everyone has their own house, and the dwelling houses become more and more beautiful and comfortable.

 

CyberFair Theme

Our monographic research is about Cangxi's dwelling. We gained a lot of first-hand materials by searching and visiting the ancient, modern, and present dwellings. Through this process, we learned new knowledge, and understand more about the social development in Cangxi County. We received great support from United Front Work of Cangxi County, General Office of Cangxi County People's Government, Cangxi County Culture Center, and lots of interviewees in the villages. We tried to use our website to show the dramatic change in our hometown and local people's determination to build a better life. In the meanwhile, we cultivated the cooperative spirits between students and teachers. Our slogan is ''Believe and Unite''. Through this competition, we hope to share the history of Cangxi dwelling and the new social presence of our hometown with the world.

 

Our Computer and Internet Access

Our school and families use ADSL to access the internet. Among four team members, only one teacher can access the internet at home. Computer Center for students in our school can't provide stable internet access, so we finished our work mostly on the computers in teachers' office, where the internet was comparatively stable.

 

Problems We Had To Overcome

Difficulties

Strategies

Things we gained

Unstable internet service

Plan in advance, upgrade our work efficiency, and combine online and offline editing

Eventually there would always be a way.

Students were not familiar with Dreameaver8 and didn't know how to make web pages.

Learning by doing, and find help from teachers

Learned to master the Dreameaver8

Insufficient funds for interviews outside of school

Partly financed by our school, partly by ourselves

Get financial support as much as we can before activities; save every penny in the process.

Lack of time for team activities

Take full advantage of weekends and holidays

Carefully arrange our plans

H1N1 Flu spreads in Cangxi County, which added the difficulties of our interviews

Reinforce safety precautions

As long as our precautions are tight, it is OK.

 

Our Project Sound Bite

Cangxi is a beautiful place with long history of harmonious development of various ethnic groups. The dwellings changed dramatically over thousand-year development. As a concretionary art and a carrier of culture, dwelling influences one generation after another in Cangxi and reflects the level of social productivity. The evolution of Cangxi dwelling deeply touched our heart, and so we tried our best to record this change and introduce it to our friends all over the world.

Though we don't have strong support and high research level, we did pass our strengths to our Cangxi colleges, especially to our schoolmates. During last several months, in order to achieve our common goal, we sacrificed a lot, but we gained much more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sichuan Province Cangxi Career High Middle School

Address : No.197 jianshe street yuanba Cangxi sichuan Province
Manager-in-charge:Ma  Hongkai   Email:mahongkai@163.com