Harry at Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST)
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There was substantial rain on arriving in Wuhan on Saturday
This is at the Wugang Hotel
At Starbucks with Dong Bao Qi, who took Harry to Walmart in Wuhan to do some shopping.
The steel supporting a bridge across the Yangtze River
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The workshop on steels for marine engineering began on Monday. This is Professor Wu Kaiming opening the meeting.
Professor Vladimir Tsepelev from the Ural Federal University in the foreground. Directly behind him is Professor Serhiy Yershov who is from Ukraine but now based at WUST, International Centre for Steels Research.
Delicious vegetarian food which is good for health and for the environment
Large audience at the workshop on steels for marine engineering
Professor Andrey Scriabin in the foreground
Serhiy Yershov, who has written a 300,000 line code for steels, asking a question. Next to him on the left is Professor Oleg Isayev who is based at WUST.
Dong Bao Qi (who looked after Harry) and Professor Hongliang Yi
Harry and Shuwen Wen has coffee together at the Wuhang Hotel
Shuwen is from the U.K. and now building a new beam line at the new neutron centre in China, together with a comprehensive modelling facility for residual stress and other functions.
Many students visited the Wuhan Hotel for a photograph. This is Harry's fan club in Wuhan.
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The beginning of a formal ceremony where WUST signed a collaboration agreement with a technology transfer company called Techcode.
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formal ceremony where WUST signed a collaboration agreement with a technology transfer company called Techcode.
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The leaders of WUST and Techcode holding the signed agreements.
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At the same ceremony, Harry was appointed "Honorary Director" of the International Centre for Steels Technology at WUST
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Dinner at the Wugang Hotel
Harry's shopping from Walmart
Dong Bao Qi with Harry at Starbucks
Walking back to the hotel
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Dong Bao Qi, Vladimir and Harry went for a walk around the East Lake in Wuhan.
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The East Lake is a beautiful place, well kept and lots of cyclists.
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This is a monument to the nine heorines who died fighting in ancient times.
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These bicycles are available in their thousands around the city. They can be unlocked for a very small cost using the mobile telephone, and then left for someone else to borrow.
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his is a photograph of a manhole cover. Harry is following in the footsteps of the most decent politician in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn.
The best picture that Harry has taken to show the elegance of the East Lake.
Vladimir and Dong Bao Qi
A classical Chinese garden-bridge
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Harry and Vladimir
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The lovely East Lake
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Thousands of bicycles everywhere. The tyres do not need air.
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Guohong Zhang and Hongliang Yi. Both were at CML in POSTECH when Harry was there.
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Harry then visited another city, Suzhou, which has a large technology exploitation park with some 29 Universities and Institutes involved. Hongliang Yi and Profesor Lin Cheng accompanied him on the journey.
This is a centuries old garden in Shouzou.
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Lin Cheng, thinking about steel.
Harry bought one of the tea mugs - this lady is explaining that it is not made of mud, but rather, stone.
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These bins are made of cast iron - a perfect fit for an ancient garden.
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These little creatures appear like rooted-plants, but wander about at night.
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Lin Cheng and Hongliang
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These little motorbikes are all-electric. There are 600,000 of them in Wuhan alone, and each one costs about 2000 Yuan.
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A meeting with the Singapore National University staff at the Suzhou Technology Park, which is in fact a joint venture between Singapore and China.
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Hongliang and Oliver (Xiaochuan Xiong) have created a new company on in Suzhou, called "Ironovation".
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Oliver is the second from the right. Here we are at a vegetarian restaurant in Suzhou, recommended by Oliver's wife, who edits the Michelin Guide. The two little ones are Hongliang's sons. This restaurant does not serve Coca Cola because it is considered bad for health, and the beer is alcohol-free at a stage just before fermentation begins.
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Hongliang and Oliver (Xiaochuan Xiong)
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The hotel in Suzhou
The view from the hotel
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Mouth watering!
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Still in Suzhou
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The railway station in Suzhou. In China, a passport or ID card is required to travel on the trains.
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A nice dinner at Wugang Hotel on the last day, with many faculty, deans and leaders of WUST.