In the summer of 2001, 15 Chinese teachers of English from Shunde attended a language training course in Cambridge, punting in their spare time once or twice on the river about which our gifted poet Xu Zhimo wrote a famous poem Another Farewell Wave to Cambridge.

　　The city of Cambridge is in the southeast of England, 50 miles north of London.

　　With over 100,000 people located in a 6.5 square mile area, Cambridge is a unique community with a strong mix of cultural and social diversity, intellectual vitality and technological innovation.

　　In 1209, groups of scholars congregated at the ancient Roman trading post of Cambridge for the purpose of study, and this is the earliest record of the University.

　　The University of Cambridge has been making fundamental contributions to both the breadth and depth of scholarship for nearly 800 years, producing ideas that change the world. Members of the University have won over sixty Nobel Prizes.

　　Key to the University's success is an open environment, which promotes collaboration with a world-wide range of partners. The University has a long history of collaboration - particularly with industry - to solve problems and develop applications.

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