Day 2! First visit to the Factory!12:51 AM
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
1st september!1st day of my itp. Skipped breakfast as we overslept.We were given time to rest till noon. It was more an orientation to the factory today. Had to collect our working attire(coat,pants and safety shoes) and attend safety talk at the factory. Remember that there were several groups of itp at china from sp? Aeronautical ended up at Harbin. Bioengineering (Dben) and Mechanical ended up at Chang Chun. We dropped the Dben students off at a hospital where they will be having their itp. 
Dben had a Welcoming banner at the hospital too~ But my group at the car factory didn't have it! (We were more of a nuisence for them)
Pictures taken from the short trip from the hostel to the factory, which is situated a bit further from the main city. The volkswagen/Audi factory is part of the FAW (First automobile works) main factories. We are the first few students to be able be attached to this factory as they don't like oversea students. And girls. Haha, there wasn't much ladies in my course anyway.
Their mrt/tram station: (will post more things about the city over time).JPG)
Sorry for the poor quality of photos~ Moving bus, squeezy and small inside. =D
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Chang chun is famous in china for their automobiles factory and research. Trains, trucks, cars , etc are manufactured in this city. We entered another huge district not far from the main city( about 40-50min ride from the hostel). This entire district are completely filled with workshops, factories and showrooms, like a 'car city'. Finally we reached the germany~chinese factory for Audi,Volkswagen and a few less famous car brands. All signboards are chinese and german. Machines and technology from germany, workers from china. A lot of other senior engineer and executives are German! Big shots! There was about one thousand to two workers at the Body shop factory i am situated mostly for my itp. About tens of thousand of workers for this area of land owned by FAW. Since they had other joint production cars like mazda, situated at other places. The company is Huge! 
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Sorry for the poor quality of photos~ Moving bus, squeezy and small inside. =D.JPG)
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Chang chun is famous in china for their automobiles factory and research. Trains, trucks, cars , etc are manufactured in this city. We entered another huge district not far from the main city( about 40-50min ride from the hostel). This entire district are completely filled with workshops, factories and showrooms, like a 'car city'. Finally we reached the germany~chinese factory for Audi,Volkswagen and a few less famous car brands. All signboards are chinese and german. Machines and technology from germany, workers from china. A lot of other senior engineer and executives are German! Big shots! There was about one thousand to two workers at the Body shop factory i am situated mostly for my itp. About tens of thousand of workers for this area of land owned by FAW. Since they had other joint production cars like mazda, situated at other places. The company is Huge! 
First shot i took after the security post, which i was told not to take out my camera anymore! We were told not to take any photos in the factory yet as things had yet to clarify for photography inside the factory. Just a shot to show how long the factory is at first sight. Endless.
Stay tuned, supermarkets and the streets which i explored during the third day!~
