The paper announced that the Chinese government had spent 370 Billion dollars in urbanization last year alone. We still haven’t figured out where all the money is coming from, but it definitely is a field of dreams mentality…build it and they will come..
Based on the recommendation of the expats from the "Shang" the night before, we headed to the new Holiday Inn (HI) for dinner. After a brief run-in with the HI currency exchange folks, we headed to the new Italian restaurant and had wonderful lasagna. After dinner, we went to their “Safari Pub” and found a woman from Cameroon as the hostess. She was hysterical. Within a few minutes, we were getting her complete life story- from her dead husband and multiple children to her talks with God and her move to China. The West Africans are so accessible, extremely verbal. The women dominate both socially and economically and they are completely hair-brained.
Our discussions with her led to our meeting the only other people in the bar- an expat couple from Britain, Gordon and Jean. They had lived in Dalian for some time and just moved to Qingdao. We drank wine (lots of it!!) and had a wonderful time-sharing stories about China and the Chinese.
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