Shenzhen, 26 May 1997.
Our first day in the People's Republic of China.
From left to right:
- Sukran Kadipasaoglu,
- me,
- Alan Lee, our Chinese host (Analyst, China
Nonfemet Holdings Limited)
- Basheer Khumawala,
The Great Wall on the background is a miniaturized
replica of the real thing.
'Splendid China' is a clone of Taiwan's 'Window on
China'. It
allows one to 'visit all of China in one day'. Beijing's
Forbidden City, the Great Wall, Tibet's Potala Palace,
the
Shaolin Temple, the gardens of Suzhow, the rock
formations of
Guilin, the Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, the Stone
Forest in
Yunnan, Huangguoshu Falls, ... Even some sights of the
rebel
Province of Taiwan! They are all there. The catch?
Everything is
reduced to one fifteenth of its real size.
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