Anyone have any experience with Lanzhou?

My father is leaving for Beijing tomorrow–his first trip to China–and then, later in the week, over to Lanzhou to visit a factory of a company he is affiliated with.
I think he’s hoping for Lanzhou to be a cool place to visit, but the Wikipedia entry on it is less than thrilling.
If any of you [...]

Final Chinese Oral Presentation

Third-year Chinese had its final oral presentations on Friday. We were split up into groups of six, and had to give ten minute presentations on the topic that we’d written our final research paper on. Each presentation was followed by a five minute Q&A. I made mine on Powerpoint, which was a good idea because [...]