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Chang'an University (CHD; Chinese: 长安大学; pinyin: Cháng'ān Dàxué) is a public university located in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded with the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government.
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in 652 AD, located in the southeast sector of Chang'an. During Tang, the main exterior walls of Chang'an rose 18 ft (5.5 m) high, were 5 mi (8.0 km) by six miles in length, and formed a city in a rectangular shape, with an inner surface area of 30 sq mi (78 km 2 ). [ 11 ]
The first recorded Christian missionary in China was Alopen, a Syriac-speaker, who arrived in Xi'an (then known as Chang'an) in 635 along the Silk Road. The Nestorian Stele, now located in Xi'an's Beilin Museum, is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 that documents the 150 years of early Christianity in China following Alopen. [33]
Chang'an District (Chinese: 长安区; pinyin: Cháng'ān Qū; lit. 'long peace') is the second-most populous of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, in Northwest China. [1]
Chang'an or Changan may also refer to: Air Changan (长安航空), a Chinese airline that has been operating since 1993; Changan Automobile (长安汽车), a Chinese automobile manufacturer; Chang'an Avenue (北京市 长安街), a major east–west thoroughfare in Beijing, China; Chang'an University (长安大学), a university in Xi'an ...
Chang'an Avenue is the road directly before Tian'anmen gate and to the north of Tian'anmen Square.Because of its location, Chang'an Avenue has been associated with a number of important events in Chinese history, such as the Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989 (including the famous confrontation of the Tank Man), the May 4th Movement and the funeral procession of Zhou Enlai.
Xianyang is home to the main campus of Northwest A&F University (NWAFU), one of the world's top universities in agriculture science related-fields, [5] [6] and a member of "Project 985" club which is an organization of 39 reputable universities in China. National. Northwest A&F University (NWAFU) Shaanxi University of Science & Technology; Public
Main entrance XISU Chang'an campus. Established in 1952 as the Northwest College of Russian and later Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute, XISU is one of the four oldest foreign language teaching institutions in P. R. China (the other three located in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, that was a part of Sichuan). and the only international studies-based university in the northwest region of the ...