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ATUBGA DAVID ATIA IBRAHIM，我校通信与信息工程学院加纳留学生，目前在吴慧娟老师的指导下学习信息与通信工程专业。他同时是我校留学生学生会主席，将于今年6月硕士毕业。他撰写的文章《My Chengdu Stories》刊登在2016年3月14日出版的《China Daily》（《中国日报》）上。
Chengdu, is one of the prominent cities in China that when I first arrived I felt I made a mistake travelling of my country and I was showered with mix feelings but within a week up to two, I said to myself, Oh what a sweet, diplomatic, neat, lovely, attractive, exquisite, gorgeous home full of passionate people. I now understand why it was once stated metaphorically by one prominent Poet by name Mao Zedong who lived between．
1893 to 1976 in one of his poems that Great China was like “a Rooster’s Crow awakens the dreaming earth”. This description of the then China was not just a mere saying but he foresaw from the onset that China was just not only awakening the Earth, but will one day serve as a home of inventions, a land of peace loving, home of the World Economic Power, home of International cooperation and Chengdu is not an exception. The warm heartedness of the people of Chengdu culminates to the traditional passion passed on to all Chinese by Confucius that “isn’t it a joy to welcome friends from afar”? since then, every Chinese has cultivated this unique habit in him or her.
It is therefore an undisputable fact that Chengdu is a nice city full of Kind, Philanthropic, caring, loving, and friendly people from children to the aged. There are numerous or countless cities in China but among them, I think Chengdu which within a twinkle of an eye has developed to the admiration of natives and every foreigner who finds him or herself in the Land of Great Chengdu. This generosity of the people of Chengdu can be seen in the pictures below.
（翻译：成都是中国著名的城市之一。当我第一次来到成都，我觉得这是一次错误的旅程，我的内心充斥着混杂的情绪。但是在一到两周之后，我告诉自己，这是一个多么亲切、多么友好、多么整洁、多么可爱、多么迷人、多么精致、多么华丽的城市啊，这个大家庭里充满了热情洋溢的人们。
现在我理解了为什么毛泽东（1893- 1976年）在他的一首诗里把伟大的中国比喻成“公鸡打鸣唤醒沉睡的大地”（诗歌原文：雄鸡一唱天下白）。这个描述不仅仅是纯粹的说中国，他从一开始就预见，中国绝不仅仅是唤醒地球，而是有一天它会成为创造发明之乡，爱好和平之地，经济强大之国，国际合作之家。成都，也不例外。孔夫子曾说“有朋自远方来，不亦说乎”，自那以后，每一位中国人都培养了这份独特的习惯，热心的成都人们将这传承下来的热情发挥到了极致。
成都是一个美好的城市，这里的人们不管男女老少都善良、仁慈、体贴、亲切和友好。中国有数不清的城市，但是我认为在那么多城市之中，只有成都，在转眼之间，发展到令当地人和每一个置身于大成都的外国人钦佩的地步。成都人们的慷慨大方可以从下面的照片里看到。）
Remarkably, the food in Chengdu is superb because of its specialty in nature. In fact, very hot and spicy and in case one falls sick and happens to eat this food, then this sickness will vanish within no time. Have you ever being to Chengdu before? If yes, have you tried HOT POT? Which is also called the “Sichuan Cuisine” (Chuan Cai) hot and pungent flavoring? If No, then you have not come out from your home. I was first introduced to Hot Pot by my Professor by name Wu Huijuan who is philanthropic, generous, and welcoming and since then I countless dinner only hotpot. Check this, but control your lust.
（翻译：成都的食物尤其棒，因为它真的很特别。成都的食物特别辛辣，如果有人生病了而碰巧吃了成都辛辣的食物的话，病立马就消失得无影无踪了。你以前来过成都吗？如果来过，你吃过成都的火锅吗？如果没吃，那么你就等于没来过成都。我第一次吃火锅是我的老师吴慧娟介绍的，他是一个特别善良、大方和热情的人。从那以后，我有无数次都吃火锅作为晚餐。看图，但是记得控制你的食欲哦。）
It is said that, when it comes to dinner, private and business ideas are mooted and considered intrinsic part of business negotiations. They have a saying that “you are what you eat” is “you are where you eat” in other words, we must eat quality food all the time to become healthy and strong. In terms of eating seasonally, they have yet another saying that “reddish in winter and ginger in summer, keeps the Doctor away” this shows that much priority is place on health, nutrition and harmony.
My story about Great Chengdu still continues unabated, when it comes to site seeing, then you have no other place to discuss with friends apart from Chengdu. Why? Because where else can one see Pandas in the world? The answer is Chengdu. Have you being to Panda City before? If yes, I say kudos to you else, you have to locate this place just like I did with friends. Let’s get to the Panda City now….
（翻译：据说边吃饭边交流个人想法或谈生意被认为是商业洽谈必不可少的一部分。他们有句话叫做“人如其食”。换句话说就是，我们必需吃健康的食物来变得健康和强壮。说到不同季节的吃食，他们有另一句俗语叫做“冬吃萝卜夏吃姜， 不用医生开药方”。这表明他们非常重视健康、营养和和谐。
我和成都的故事依然继续着。说到外出观光，除了成都，你没有其他地方可说。为什么呢？因为世界上还有其他地方可以看到熊猫吗？答案只有成都。你之前去过熊猫基地吗？如果去过，那太好了，但是你应该像我和我的朋友一样像照片上这样玩耍。现在让我们一起去看看熊猫基地吧。）
Also, the most prominent artificial dam in China can be found in Chengdu. It is call the Du Jiang Yan dam. This was a dam built by one prominent man and his son for irrigational purpose and later the army supported to extend or widen it and now it stands as the prominent dam in China. Which now serves as the food basket of China. Let’s travel to Du Jiang Yan.
The Du Jiang Yan was also the place where the genesis of the Monkey King Movies started first.
（翻译：成都还有中国最著名的人工大坝，它被叫做都江堰水利工程。都江堰是由一对著名的父子为了灌溉而建起来的，之后由政府派兵扩建和加宽。如今，它是农产品的摇篮，是闻名中国的大坝。现在让我们到都江堰去旅行吧。
都江堰还是电影《美猴王》的拍摄地呢。）
Some of the renowned edifices in China also include the New Century Global Center – one of the largest buildings in the world which occupies an area of 1.7 Million Square Meters. This elegant building can contain inside it, 20 Sydney Opera Houses, three Pentagon buildings, and even still has enough space to add four St. Peter’s Squares. Where do you think this structure if found in China? The answer certainly is Chengdu.
（翻译：中国著名的建筑也包括了新世纪环球中心——世界上最大的建筑之一，它占地170万平方米。这座精美的建筑可以容纳20个悉尼歌剧院，3座五角大楼，甚至足够再加4个圣彼得广场。你觉得这座建筑会在中国的哪儿呢？答案当然是成都！）
It is emphatically lucid that Chengdu is a unique City, nature has found itself in China and Chengdu has the biggest to offer to the world. Paramount among them again is the Great Wall of Chengdu at Luodai City. Let’s have a tour to Luodai for some experience if only you are strong enough to climb this great wall and later come back to the base for fun.
（翻译：我们都非常清楚成都是一个特别的城市。中国有着大片的自然风光，而成都呈现给世界最大的自然。它们当中最重要的要属成都洛带古镇的长城了。只要你有足够的精力去爬长城，我们就去洛带看一看吧。）
In addition, I think a visit to “huang long si” in summer would be the best for you to challenge your Chinese friends in water fighting and the amazing experiences at the sight. Have you being there before? This part of Chengdu has loving and caring people and would like to assist any foreigner who finds him or herself there. Classical examples can be seen from these pictures when UESTC International students visited there in 2015 summer.
In terms of industries, let’s say, Chengdu is still leading and is the heart of industries such as Hauwei, ZTE etc and one of the prominent electronic industries known as DEC Dong Fang Electric Company is also found in Chengdu. This company has developed and had its tentacles wide spread throughout the whole world. From Asia, Europe to Africa. As part of my International exposure as an International students leader of UESTC, all I did in my own little way to DEC was to contribute to the discussions on the topic “One Road One Belt Policy” by the Current President, His Excellency Xi Jinping and below explains it all.
（翻译：另外，我觉得夏天去黄龙溪是可以和你的中国朋友体验打水仗的最好的地方，并且它能给你令人惊讶的视觉体验。你之前去过那儿吗？黄龙溪的人们都特别善良和友好，他们会帮助任何到那里参观的外国人。下面的这些照片就是例子，这些照片是2015年夏天，电子科大的留学生们去那里参观的时候拍摄的。）
I must say that I am always speechless when it comes to transportation system in Chengdu. Be it aviation road networks and subway system and in the night Chengdu always take you to paradise. Let’s check out these：
（翻译：说到工业，我敢说成都一直都处于领导地位并是工业领域之心，这里有着华为、中兴等大公司，著名的电子工业像东方电气等也入驻成都。东方电气迅速发展，将它的触角伸向亚洲、欧洲和非洲等世界各地。作为电子科大留学生队伍的队长，我所能以我自己的方式为东方电气尽的微薄之力是对于现任主席习近平先生提出来的“一路一带”政策这一话题的讨论。
我不得不说对于成都的交通系统我经常感到无法用言语来形容。无论是航空道路网还是地铁系统，在夜成都都能让你如临天堂。让我们看看这些。）
In terms of Education, health care, farming and what have you, the least said the better. As part of my success stories of Chengdu, there are numerous universities in Chengdu but I should say the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) which stands as one of the best electronic Engineering Universities in China and again a project 211 and 985 University and dear to the heart of the Government of this Country is also found in Chengdu. As a dream University for Chinese students, I must say, I am glad to be an International Student of UESTC which is also located in the heart of Chengdu.
（翻译：说到教育、医疗和农业，我必须少说一点了。作为我与成都的故事的一部分，成都有很多很多的大学，但是我要特别说一下成都的电子科技大学，作为全中国最好的电子工程类院校之一，同时也是“211”“ 985”工程重点院校之一，深受国家政府的关注和重视。作为中国学生心目中的理想院校，我为能够成为坐落在成都中心的电子科技大学留学生中的一员而感到高兴。）
I will forever remember Chengdu because of this University, and the opportunity for the first time in my life to leader International students UESTC coming from over 56 countries worldwide.
（翻译：成都会永远留在我的记忆中，因为电子科技大学，因为它给了我人生中第一次机会去领导来自世界各地56个国家的留学生们。）
Furthermore, Chengdu is was once hit by so many tragedies and whenever I think of these sad events, I always feel deeply worried and keep praying for the departed souls and the good people of Chengdu. My journeys to Beichuan and Wen Chuan gave me terrifying memories and indeed sad stories about Chengdu. However, it is my prayer that these calamities will not surface again and there will be the continuity of happiness, love, joy, in Chengdu and in China as a whole. Behind me are two tunnels which before we reach the mountain I was wondering how we were to cross to the other end of the mountains but to my surprise, technology has proven beyond doubts and a tunnel of several kilometers have been created under these mountain. What else can I say?
Permit me to say that Chengdu is a land of beauty, why because the following images say it all;
（翻译：此外，成都也曾多次遭遇灾难。每当我想到这些不好的事，我总是感到深深的担忧，我常为那些逝去的灵魂祈祷，为成都善良的人们祈祷。我曾去北川和汶川参观，它们给我一些可怕的回忆，让我回忆起发生在成都的那些令人悲伤的故事。我祈祷这些自然灾害不要再次发生，我祈祷成都以及整个中国将延续欢乐、幸福和友爱。下图中在我的身后是两条隧道。在我们到达山上之前，我还在想我们要怎样去到山的另一边。但是出乎我意料的是，科技的发展已经超出了我们的想象，一条几千米的隧道蔓延在这些山底，我还能说什么呢？
成都是一片美丽的土地。为什么这么说呢？下面的照片就可以证明这一切。）
Chengdu is a land predominantly of agriculture and produces every kind of farm products from food kinds to all animals. Everything about Chengdu is unique.
（翻译：成都是一个农产品发达的地方，它盛产各种各样的农产品，在这里可以看到各种自产的食物和动物。关于成都的一切都是这么的独特。）
Based on these few examples of the application of technology in the production of food in Chengdu, I will say it is a great and unique City in China that one can ever think of.
The people of Chengdu celebrate all the Chinese Festivals in conformity with the farming seasons to the admiration of everyone and they include:
• Spring Festival which is noted as one of the biggest traditional festivals and also known as the Chinese New Year Festival always involves mass exodus of people from cities back home. They always embellish their homes on the eve of New Year as signs of luck couple with sacrifices, fireworks, firecrackers and family reunions,
• Tomb Sweeping Festival is yet another prominent festival carried out in commemoration of the departed souls to have eternally everlasting lives and it always falls around the 5th of April on the Western calendar,
• Dragon Boat Festival which also falls on the fifth day of the month of the Lunar calendar was and is still celebrated to remember the death of the Ancient Chinese Poet by name Qu Yuan who lived around (340BC to 278BC), and finally,
• Mid-autumn Festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Lunar calendar is celebrated to have a glance of the full month and is always characterized by One would bear with me that, in terms of Roads networks and the transport systems from railways involving subways, road transports and aviation, China has performed beyond expectations. Just like their splendid infrastructural development all over.
If I mean to continue my story about Chengdu, it will take us the whole year. What I can only say is “No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you think you are, life is a learning process and always delay in judging others. Give others the privilege to explain themselves. What you see may not be the reality or false. Never conclude for others. That is why we should never only focus on the surface and judge others without understanding them first.
Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded with money but because they value friendship.
Those who take the initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility.
Those who apologize first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because the value the people around them.
Those who are willing to help you, do so not because they owe you anything but because they see you as a true friend.
One day all of us will get separated from each other and from Chengdu, we will miss our conversations of everything and nothing else, the dreams that we had, days will pass by, months will pass by, years will pass by, until one day, our children will see our pictures and ask, who are these people? And we will smile with invisible tears because our heart is touched with a strong word and you will say “it was them that I had my best days of my life with in Chengdu.
Other people may have different stories about Chengdu but this is mine.
Chengdu, My Second Home, God Bless Chengdu God Bless China!
（翻译：基于这些成都运用科技生产食物的例子，我想说成都是一个我们所能想到的美好而独特的中国城市。
成都人们随着季节的变换，庆祝所有的中国节日，令人称羡。这些节日包括：
春节。春节被认为是中国最大的传统节日之一，也是中国的新年。每年这个时候都有大量的外出人员回到自己的城市。他们会在新年前夜装饰自己的家以带来好运，他们还会准备祭祀品、烟花、爆竹，吃团圆饭。
清明节。清明节是另一个重要的节日，它的设立是为了纪念逝去的亲人，让他们永远活在子孙的心中。清明节通常是西方日历的四月五号。
端午节。端午节是在阴历的五月初五，它是为了纪念生活在公元前340年到公元前278年的中国古代诗人屈原。
中秋节。中秋节是在阴历的八月十五，在这一天要观赏圆圆的月亮。中国在从铁路、地铁到道路交通、航空道等道路系统和交通系统的发展就像他们所有壮丽的基础设施建设一样，已经远远超出了我们的想象。
如果要继续讲述我的成都故事，可能要花整整一年的时间。我所能说的就是“无论你是谁，无论你多有经验，无论你觉得自己多见多识广，生活都是一个学习的过程。不要忙着去评价别人，给予别人解释自己的权利。你看到的未必就是对的或错的。永远不要试图给别人下结论，这也是为什么我们绝不应该在没有事先了解别人的情况下，就通过表面现象去评价别人。”
那些自愿买单的人，并不是因为他们富有，而是因为他们珍视友谊。
那些在工作上积极主动的人，并不是因为他们愚蠢，而是因为他们理解什么是责任。
那些在争吵之后率先道歉的人，并不是因为他们有错，而是因为他们珍惜身边的人。
那些愿意帮助你的人，并不是因为他们欠你什么，而是因为他们把你当成真正的朋友。
有一天我们会离开成都，离开彼此，我们会想念我们的每一次交谈和我们曾经拥有的梦想。时光飞逝，一天又一天，一月又一月，一年又一年，直到有一天，我们的孩子看着我们的照片问“这些都是谁啊？”我们会微笑着，眼睛里却饱含泪水，因为我们的心被深深地触动着，你可能会说“这些是在我最美的年纪在成都遇到的那些人。”
不同的人可能有着不同的故事，这就是我的成都故事。
成都，我的第二个家！愿上帝保佑你，成都！愿上帝保佑你，中国！）
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