The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) has long-established links with the country including the China Bridge Project, which is aimed at tackling environmental issues like global food security as well as a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on the environmental sciences.
Business China argues that foreign capital is a kind of bridge loan that has allowed China to grow rapidly while it tries to fix the mess in its financial system.
Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.
It is my hope that it will not only serve as a bridge between China and the West, but also start an important conversation about the Chinese Dream.
Even the new quake-proof span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was built in China and floated over for assembly stateside.
One evening last weekend, two high speed trains collided off a bridge in Zhejiang province, China.
It is as if this craggy peninsula of a country is the unwilling bridge that blends and almost connects China with Japan.
By comparison, China's 36 kilometer (22 mile) Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest sea-crossing bridge, over seven times the length of the Mumbai bridge, took four years to get completed.
Zhu says he is looking for ways to open up a private industry park somewhere in Zhejiang that would provide a bridge for high-tech entrepreneurs doing business between China and America.
"This dates from the 13th century, when the Mongols ruled China, " Chang said as he stopped to admire a stone bridge with no railings.
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Langerman will soon finish his year in China, but he says he hopes to return one day and be a bridge between the two countries.
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