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Cangzhou (simplified Chinese: 沧州; traditional Chinese: 滄州; pinyin: Cāngzhōu) is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. Cangzhou's urban center has a population of approximately 514,074 as of the 2010 national census (corresponding to the built up area of the prefecture-level city), while the prefecture-level administrative unit in total has a population of 7,134,053. It lies approximately 180 km from Beijing, China's capital, and 90 km from the major port city of Tianjin.
Cangzhou City comprises 2 districts, 4 county-level cities, 9 counties and 1 autonomous county.
Cangzhou's urban center is a heavily industrial city but the city's administrative territory also includes strongly agricultural areas, and is well known in China for its Chinese jujubes (Chinese dates) and Ya pears (widely known under the export name of Tianjin Ya Pear). The North China Oil Field is within Cangzhou City's jurisdiction. Cangzhou also encompasses a large fishing port and the modern coal-exporting Huanghua Harbour.
Gong Li (born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping to bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.
She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.
She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.
Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, the youngest in a family of five children. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher. Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong.
In 1985, Gong sought to study at China's top music school, but was denied entrance. Later that same year, she was accepted to the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and graduated in 1989. While a student at the Central Academy of Drama, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who chose her for the lead role in Red Sorghum, his first film as a director.
Li Quan (in Chinese language 李全) was born in Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang Province on 9 December 1973. He is a nationally recognised and prolific martial artist who studied under famous masters, such as Grandmaster Dai Kang.
When he was a little boy, he was already fascinated by kung fu. His grandfather was a man of the military and, despite his old age, was very fit and agile. His grandfather’s kung fu movements appeared to little Li Quan as the most perfect dancing in the world. Li Quan imitated his kicks and punches and, under his grandfather’s instruction and guidance, he learned the basic skills by age 10. He then joined the local kung fu community and was taught by more professional kung fu masters.
Aged 17, he joined the Chinese Wu Shu Academy in Hebei Province. In the year 1991, he became Team Captain of the Northeast China Amateur Wu Shu Team. Two years later he moved to Sichuan Province, where he has been residing ever since. First he studied and taught at the Chinese Gong Fu Research Academy in Deyang and then he became a family member of the Dai Shi Men Wu Shu Institute in Hanyuan (led by Grandmaster Dai Kang).