XIAMEN Comprar Nike VaporMax Hombre , July 22 (Xinhua) -- More than 200 swimmers crossed the one-kilometer LuJiang Bay in Xiamen on Saturday to celebrate Gulangyu island entering UNESCO world heritage list.
They started from the beach of Gulangyu island and finished at the dock of Xiamen.
Chen Tianci, a Gulangyu island resident, told Xinhua that ocean swimming was important memories for many Gulangyu residents, as many islanders chose to swim across the sea in the past instead of taking ferries for saving money.
"My family have resided on the island for four generations. Many islanders are very familiar with cross-bay swimming," the 50-year-old Chen said. "We know the tide and it is very easy to swim to the opposite bank."
Gulangyu, famous for its historic settlements Comprar Nike VaporMax Púrpura , representing a variety of local and international architectural styles, and natural sceneries, was announced as UNESCO World Heritage on July 8 at the 41th session of the World Heritage Committee.
Cross-Lujiang swimming was initiated in 1931 and only 54 swimmers attended the first edition. Xiamen last held the event in 1995.
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Dropping anchor
The birth of Chinese babies who have US citizenship, known as anchor babies, has given rise to an entire "birth tourism" industry. An estimated 50,000 pregnant Chinese women traveled to the US specifically to give birth there in 2015. During his campaign Comprar Nike VaporMax Negras , US president-elect Donald Trump criticized the phenomenon of foreigners giving birth in the US to claim American citizenship. He vowed to deal with this issue. However, birth tourism firms said Trump's rhetoric hasn't affected their business and probably won't affect even after he takes the office in 2017.
A passerby in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, reads an advertisement for a company that helps women travel to the US to give birth. File photo: IC
The campaign rhetoric of US president-elect Donald Trump has had almost no influence over the trend of Chinese citizens flying to the US to give birth, an agent in China's birth tourism industry said on Sunday.
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Yang works for AbcBabyVip, which helps pregnant Chinese women to deliver their babies - known as "anchor babies" - in the US.
"It's true that some clients have worried that Donald Trump will eliminate the anchor baby policy," Yang said. "But there is no need to worry because the priorities for the new US president will be improving the domestic economy and employment. Therefore, he will not deal with Chinese delivering babies in the US immediately after his inauguration."
Her views were echoed by a senior advisor, who also only gave her -surname Liu. Liu works at the -Shanghai office of America LV MEI International Inc www.comprarnikevapormax.es , a birth tourism company based in Los Angeles, the US.
Liu told the Global Times on Sunday that many Chinese, especially from Beijing and Shanghai, still go to the US to have their babies.
"One client from the mainland has entered our center in Irvine [in the greater Los Angeles area]," Liu said. "Two mainland clients will have their visa application interviews at the US Embassy in Beijing this week."
Guaranteed citizenship
The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that anyone born on US soil receives US citizenship.
About one of every 12 newborn babies in the US each year is an anchor baby, a US-born child of an undocumented immigrant Comprar Nike Vapormax España , Forbes reported in October, citing research of US nonpartisan Pew Research Center. About 295,000 children were born to illegal aliens in 2013, according to the research.
President-elect Donald Trump, however, has said that he doesn't believe children born to illegal aliens in the US are American citizens.
"I don't think they have American citizenship and if you speak to some very Comprar Nike Vapormax Baratas , very good lawyers - and I know some will disagree, but many of them agree with me - and you're going to find they do not have American citizenship," Trump told the US-based Fox News in August 2015. "We have to start a process where we take back our country."
Between 2009 and 2013, the current US administration has deported about 500,000 illegal aliens with children with US citizenship, US magazine The Atlantic reported in September 2015.
Californian authorities spot-checked dozens of maternity centers for Chinese mainland women in Los Angeles Comprar Nike Vapormax , Orange and San Bernardino in March 2015, but couldn't strike at the business in China, US newspaper USA Today reported in April 2015.
"I don't have much of an opinion on maternity centers and Chinese babies being born on the West Coast because it actually doesn't affect me that much," said Parker Brown, a 29-year-old American from New York.
"I don't think America would do well to create an open border. Too many people would flood here, and it will ruin what makes America -America Mujer Nike VaporMax 2018 Púrpura Comprar ," Brown told the Global Times on Monday from New York via Facebook.
Brown believed a country should decide where to draw the line between preserving a way of life and having compassion for foreigners who want to live in the US.
Booming 'birth tourism'
In recent years, there has been a boom in the "birth tourism" industry in China.