Brisbane City Introduction

Brisbane, an area of 2494 square kilometers, is the capital of Queensland, Australia, located in the northeast of Australia native, close to the Sunshine Coast in the north, south close to the international tourist destination Gold Coast City. With a population of more than 2.27 million in 2014, it is Australia's third-metropolitan city, second only to Sydney and Melbourne. Brisbane is a fast-growing city, with Brisbane's technology corner being particularly famous and internationally influential.

Brisbane, close to the Pacific Ocean and to the east is the Tasman Sea, It is a city that develops from the coastline, the river and the port to the inland of the West. Its city center is located on the banks of the Brisbane River,to the Brisbane River for the political and transport spindles and then extend the development of North and South. Brisbane International Airports and International Airports are located on either side of Brisbane's estuary.

Division of Administrative Region

Brisbane is the traffic fortress leading to the Asia Pacific Basin. Queensland is Australia's most resource-rich and agricultural resource-rich region, rich in coal, natural gas, bauxite, copper, silver, lead, zinc, nickel, ores, timber and other sugar, beef, seafood, logs, wheat and Fruits and other foods are also very rich. The status of Brisbane in Australia in 90s was almost in line with California's status in the United States in 50s. It is the center of Australia's fastest growing region, and there is no doubt that such rapid growth will continue until after twenty-first Century.

City Environment

Brisbane is a brand new modern city. The city has nearly 170 large and small parks, including Albert Park, Bowen Park, Slough Falls Park, Roman Street Park, Queen's Park and other more famous. There are commemorative kiosks commemorating the victims of the war on the Northeast square of the center of the city, and the center of the commemorative Pavilion, surrounded by 18 stone columns, burns the lights. On the front of the Municipal Services Building stands a bell tower of 106.67 meters high.

Brisbane is also called the "city of rivers". The Brisbane river is like a bright ribbon from the mountains, slowly floating down, through green fields, the twists and turns, The water storage dam in the city and its auxiliary facilities are natural activities place. The scenery is picturesque, which is called the Brisbane water park. The sun of the Brisbane River Bibo Yingying, river residential well-proportioned, along the little and dainty, lawn grass green flowers, a picturesque scenery.

Educational Institutions

The University of Queensland

Time of establishment：1910

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Campus: Saint Lucia, Gatton, Epsom

Curriculum Setting：Opened more than 5000 courses in seven colleges of the University of Queensland, in addition to the electronic commerce, engineering and Health Sciences, more than 400 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the main research areas are: agricultural trade, agriculture, animal and plant products, anthropology, architecture, art, science, biotechnology, audio-visual trade, business, society, computer science, nutrition dental, economy, education, engineering, environmental management, food industry, service management, information technology, international relations, tourism, law, management, medicine, molecular genetics, music, science, medicine occupation disease treatment, physical therapy, psychology etc..

The Queensland University of Technology

It is a larger teaching university in Australia. Originally a branch of Central Technical College, which was established by the Central Institute of technology in 1908, it was upgraded to a comprehensive university in 1990, with a comprehensive ranking of tenth in the country. In 2007, The Queensland University of Technology announced, 39240 students, 5390 international students and 3702 staff.

Griffith University

Located in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, was established in 1971. Main campus in the south of Nathan, the main professors include business, information management, research in Asia, environmental protection, urban planning, film production, international relations and Asian languages. In 2004, Griffith University established Queensland's second medical school on the Gold Coast campus and strengthened Griffith's competitiveness in Australian education and assessment rankings. In 2007, the nation ranked 15th in comprehensive ranking and the top 10 in business schools. The remaining 4 campuses were added to the school district. There were 37,780 students, 8,840 international students and 3,563 faculty members.

Tourist Attractions

Gold Coast

It is 96 kilometers away from downtown Brisbane. It is named for the golden beach which is up to 32 kilometers. Here is the impact area of the Pacific warm current. It has sunshine and pleasant weather all the year round. With world-class accommodation, scenic spots, more than 30 attractive themed tourist areas and 3 world-class theme parks, it enjoys a reputation as a "theme park capital." Sea World is the largest marine park in the country with dolphins, whales, sharks and water-skiing performance. The copy of the "hard" sailing boat, Captain Cook, a British navigator, drifts on the lake for visitors to see.

Warner Bros. Film City is the only movie-themed playground in the southern hemisphere where visitors can enjoy stunts, filming special effects and many movie sets.

Aomo bin park is a nature reserve. Visitors can enjoy the unique plants, flowers, multicolored parrots and kangaroos in the area, and learn about the habitat of Australian wildlife. The wonders of feeding wild colorful parrots in the park are world renowned.

The average temperature here is about 25 degrees Celsius, the most suitable for people to swim and water skiing. Here's a famous "Surfers Paradise." Originally a deserted beach, at the beginning of the 20th century a discerning traveler catered for the Australian water skiing and surfing hobbies, setting up a hotel called Surfers Paradise. As a result, domestic and foreign tourists came in a crowded and gradually developed into a large-scale tourist area. The tourist area also has a famous "Blue Marin" fishing venue.

The Great Barrier Reef

Is the world's largest coral reef area, natural landscape is Queensland's largest tourist signs, most Australians are very proud of, and is one of the world's seven natural landscape. It is located in the South West Pacific coral sea, north to the Torres Strait, near the south of Fraser Island, along the coast of Queensland, stretching 2400 kilometers, like a natural seawall, like fortress guarding the coast, so called reef, a total area of 207 thousand square kilometers. The Great Barrier Reef has 600 large and small reefs, more than 300 kinds of live coral, brilliant colors, in different poses and with different kinds to form a non-disciplinary natural art pictures. Some like red plum in the snow, some peacock like open screen, some rounded like mushrooms, and some slender, such as velvet ... ...Overlooking over the sky, the reefs are like showy flowers and are in full bloom in the vast sea of blue waves. Surrounded by reef lake called Lake AA, the depth of less than 60 meters, the outer reef roaring waves, Lake reef flat as a mirror, it is expected to clarify the sea, 20 meters deep. All kinds of beautiful, strange fish, crab, mollusc, seaweed, beautiful and colorful. On 17 larger islands, there are hotels and apartments, each year visitors flock to watch the wonders of the oceans. The Great Barrier Reef has been threatened by species of starfish that feed on corals, reefs have been damaged, and the Australian government is taking protective measures.

Urban Traffic

Brisbane International Airport is located 13 kilometers northeast of the urban area, take the airport bus or taxi to the city, about 25 minutes. Airport international departure tax of 27 Australian dollars. Flights from Beijing and Guangzhou in the mainland of China go directly to Brisbane. The airlines that opened these routes are China Southern Airlines (Group) Company and Qantas Air Australia. After arriving in Brisbane, we can travel to other domestic cities and major tourist areas on a domestic airline flight. It takes about 2 hours from Brisbane to Sydney and about 3 hours to Melbourne.

The main railway station is the central railway station and the Rome street railway station. It can lead to the main tourist spots in the capitals and states of the States.