He got engaged to her when working in Xian.

“Bad teachers can always be made gym teachers,” a principal in the city of Xian explained to me as she showed me around her kindergarten.

From the analyses made above, we may come to the conclusion that people's living standards in Xi'an have been constantly improved between 1995 and 1999.

We traveled by train from Beijing to Xian. And got an opportunity to see the countryside.

Two hours later I was on an old, hot, dirty, smoky bus heading toward Xian.