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Day Six: Chengde City

Hospital in ChengdeOur Saturday morning presentation was at Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, which is about 200 km northeast of Beijing. This was another very new facility, less than a year old. And because it was a Saturday morning, we had representatives from other area hospitals in the crowd of about 300.

Audience

I will update this post later with some additional commentary and stories, but now we’re off to The Great Wall.

Day Five: Travel to Chengde

We departed Beijing after spending the morning watching Game 6 of the NBA Finals on CCTV and having lunch at another local restaurant. Each of China’s 34 provinces has distinct culinary offerings, and as the capital city Beijing has restaurants that reflect these unique menus.

Picture requestI’ve had several Chinese people come up to me and want to take a picture with me, and that happened again as we left our hotel in Beijing. I’ve decided that from now on I want to reciprocate and ask them to use my camera, too. I don’t know whether it’s being American, or tall, or some combination, but I suppose most Chinese people don’t see someone who looks like me very frequently.

Road to ChengdeThe drive to Chengde was beautiful, with mountainous terrain. We arrived about 5 p.m. at our hotel for the next two nights, Jiahe International Hotel.

This morning’s post is a short one because our lecture this time is at 9 a.m. instead of afternoon. Later we’ll tour the hospital and take a tour of the Summer Palace.