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Ben & Jerry's
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Yifan Shen
9/8/2014
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My name is Yifan Shen. I was born in Hangzhou, it is one of the most beautiful cities in China. I love my city very much. It sits at the head of Hangzhou Bay on China’s coast between Shanghai and Ningbo. Hanghzou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal and has been one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in China for much of the last millennium, due in part to its beautiful natural scenery. The city’s West Lake is its best-know attraction. Hangzhou’s economy has rapidly developed since its opening up in 1992. It is an industrial city with many diverse sectors such as light industry, agriculture, and textiles. It is considered an important manufacturing base logistics hub for coastal China. The city has developed many new industries, including medicine, information technology, heavy equipment, automotive components, household electrical appliances, electronics, telecommunication, fine chemicals, chemical fibre and food processing
I studied in The middle school of Yuhang in Hangzhou, it has the strong artistic atmosphere of culture senior middle school. Located at the southern tip of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Chinese master Zhang Taiyan’s hometown-Yuhang town. School formerly known as simple Yuhang county normal school, founded in 1944, after more than half a century of vicissitudes of life, has developed into a modern education function of the second provincial key middle schools in this area.
After senior middle school, I had studied in the Shandong Normal University for one year. Now, I’m a senior student in The University of Toledo. My major is finance. I choose this major because I think this major would let find a good job in Hangzhou. The GDP of Hangzhou was RMB ¥156.8 billion, which ranked second among all of the provincial capitals after Guangzhou. The city has more than tripled its GDP since then, increasing from RMB ¥156.8 billion in 2001 to RMB ¥ RMB701.1 billion in

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