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WCG 2009 in Chengdu, China
The World Cyber Games committee some weeks ago was considering Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in China to be the WCG 2009 tournament host city. Now they have declared it officially - WCG 2009 will be hosted in Chengdu.
By Serge 'Greed' Shirkhodjaev
Apr 8, 2008 19:37
The World Cyber Games committee some weeks ago was considering Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in China to be the WCG 2009 tournament host city. Now they have declared it officially - WCG 2009 will be hosted in Chengdu.Chengdu, located in southwest People's Republic of China, is the capital of Sichuan province and a sub-provincial city. Chengdu is also one of the most important economic centers and transportation and communication hubs in China. In Chinese, the word "cheng" means "become", "du" means "capital".
The Decision
The World Cyber Games Committee considers numerous factors when selecting each year’s host city, including geography, facilities, infrastructure and marketing plans. For 2009, Chengdu received the overall highest score due to the extensive support offered by local government, accessibility of the Grand Final venue, and high network potential of broadcasters. Chengdu is also the first Chinese city to train cyber gaming referees and mandate gaming venue standards.
Hyoung-Seok Kim, CEO of International Cyber Marketing, organizers of the World Cyber Games.
“Chengdu already has an incredible reputation for being one of the world’s elite cities when it comes to hosting video game competitions. We have no doubt that they will be a wonderful and exciting host city that provides World Cyber Games players and fans with a unique and amazing setting for the premiere event and competition.”
Chengdu is situated at the western edge of the Sichuan Basin. The climate is mild and humid. Chengdu is home to several key industries and markets in the people's Republic of China that are both significant for domestic and international markets. Chengdu has long been established as a national base for electronic and IT industry. Several key national electronic R&D institutes are located in Chengdu. Chengdu's Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone has attracted a variety of multinationals, including Intel, IBM, NOKIA, Alcatel, Motorola, SAP, and Microsoft, as well as domestic powerhouses such as Lenovo. Intel's Chengdu factory is its second one after its Shanghai factory in China and the first such large-scale foreign investment in electronic industry in interior mainland China.
Some parts of information are carefully taken from wikipedia.org
The Decision
The World Cyber Games Committee considers numerous factors when selecting each year’s host city, including geography, facilities, infrastructure and marketing plans. For 2009, Chengdu received the overall highest score due to the extensive support offered by local government, accessibility of the Grand Final venue, and high network potential of broadcasters. Chengdu is also the first Chinese city to train cyber gaming referees and mandate gaming venue standards.
Hyoung-Seok Kim, CEO of International Cyber Marketing, organizers of the World Cyber Games.
“Chengdu already has an incredible reputation for being one of the world’s elite cities when it comes to hosting video game competitions. We have no doubt that they will be a wonderful and exciting host city that provides World Cyber Games players and fans with a unique and amazing setting for the premiere event and competition.”
Chengdu is situated at the western edge of the Sichuan Basin. The climate is mild and humid. Chengdu is home to several key industries and markets in the people's Republic of China that are both significant for domestic and international markets. Chengdu has long been established as a national base for electronic and IT industry. Several key national electronic R&D institutes are located in Chengdu. Chengdu's Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone has attracted a variety of multinationals, including Intel, IBM, NOKIA, Alcatel, Motorola, SAP, and Microsoft, as well as domestic powerhouses such as Lenovo. Intel's Chengdu factory is its second one after its Shanghai factory in China and the first such large-scale foreign investment in electronic industry in interior mainland China.
Some parts of information are carefully taken from wikipedia.org
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"Altuough MR Dalai teaches his followers the truth that Tibet is part of China, and is inseparable. But His followers are everywhere seeking independence.I am sorry, talk is cheap, Action speaks much louder then words. so I dont wanna trust that fat wank "
"free tibet" these words are so bad manner
China will host much better WCG in 2009 i believe
so stop the F**k naive nonsense
By the way, is there anything f**king relationship between tibet and wcg?
yeah~ china has already freed tibet, 57 years ago in 1951, from being a colony of U.K.
and whats more. china has freed millions of tibetan brethrens from salvery, just like what the northern status of US did to the southern ones, in the 1860s civil war of the USA.
frankly speaking. tibet, such a inland area of barren highland, without a dependable agricultrue system, without enough modern industry, is so hard to be a independent country in the world nowadays. and, think about this: besides those so-call "tibetan free-fighters". which is the country that likes tibet to be independent most. i will say India, will you? so, if one day, china becomes weak again like late Qing dynasty, dont you guys think tibet will most likely to be a Indian colony, rather than being independent? there has already been a war between china and india in 1960s, for tibet. dont you guys know it? pessimistically, tibet is too hard to be a independent country, like south Korea is too hard to be a...... primary country (like France, Germany, U.K. etc), no matter how flourishing it is or it is going to be. such countries, such areas, are grids of the chessboard of international politics, and the .... big countries, the primary ones, are chessers. :(
not matter what destiny is there awaiting tibet. i'm gonna say, nowadays, tibet, as a self-governing zone of china, the tibetan, as proud chinese citizens,are doing fine these years. i live in chongqing and i have spent two vocations touring tibet. it is a beautiful and peaceful place, and it is now making its steady paces to modernization. with the newly completely qinghai-tibet railrod which strengthened the economical connection between tibet and eastern provinces of china, a prosperity can be foreseen. conflicts, making instability, are not welcome there.
will Germany be a better, stronger country, if great Bismark didnt unite them?
clever ones chose to unite, to stand as one, and be strong.
Kinda sad with the whole human rights thingy going on there.
No, nobody paid me or exerce or put some pressure on me :D
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The reason why some people hate China is mainly because China runs communism and the countries those people live in runs capitalism. Capitalism and communism are like water and fire that can't be mixed. Before, people were told that the opposite is the devil and they will be annihilated in the end. This in my honest opinion can be a kind of brain-washing. Just like not everything in capitalism is as perfect as it describes, not everything in communism is as evil as the capitalists say it is. Basically it is what those two represent againsts each other.
Look, I am not a communism supporter even after years of educating by it or you can say "brain-washing" by it and I think there are a lot of people in China think exactly the way I do. But most of us do believe that for this period of time single-party state does fit it with China best. Being democratic is suitable when the average education level and standard of living of citizens have risen to a certain point. Otherwise it will dramatically hurt the country in most of the directions. It is certainly not the right time for China yet. As I already mentioned in previous post, there are still 8 billion or 9 billion chinese who are still farmer(in this case they are still living in a pretty poor life) and not well-educated. Just image what they will do or what they can do if they are given the rights to elect their "own" leader. Being ignorant means most of the times easy to be instigated. It will take a long time for them to be really doing what DEMOCRACY is all about. Well time is exactly the thing that China doesn't have since China has already lost lots of time of developing in the history because of invasion by some countries. So this is my point, "IT IS NOT TIME". In maybe 30-50 years, I believe China can be really democratic. Changes need time.
To be honest with you, I don't feel my human rights have been trampled down at all when I was still living in China 5 years ago and so do my family and my friends. Sure there are certainly human rights abuses in China but the situation has been much much much better than it was before and sometimes it is inevitable. Even in some democratic countries there are human rights abuses. So why do you expect China to be perfect and unmistakable?
With China's single-party state, China has growing drastically in economic and such. Nobody can deny this fact. People in China has become to be happier and happier about chinese goverment and this is certainly not like what some western countries say that communist China is going to be annihilated very soon at least not as quickly as they say it will be.
I also need to remind you guys that China has the biggest population of 13 billion in the world. No matter how small the problem is in other countries, it will be a pretty damn big problem in China. For example, the gross domestic product aka GDP of China is ranked 4th in 2007 which is just a little bit less than germany's. But the average GPD of people is only 2000 dollars which is ranked 99th. You really need to think about this my friend.
Plus at least PRC aka the people republic of China, has never invaded any country for oil profit like USA UK Germany and Japan did or are doing in the history. China could've occupied both Vietnam and India at that time but we didn't because that was not what we intended to do. We just wanted to give them some punishment and that was it.
People of the whole world are more than welcome to come to China this summer and experience the changes that have been going on in China yourselves and we have already made our tea ready for our guests. :)
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And the girls, oh, what can I say? If I will ever make a ranking about chinese girls, I would certainly put girls there in top3. They may not be as sexy as russian and polish girls are but I assure you that they are very cute and tender. And that is what you western people think asian girls are all about, isn't it ? :D