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These are very interesting toilets. A person is required to throw their used toilet paper into the basket. The septic system cannot handle paper. I am postponing the day that I have to use a squatter toilet for anything besides urinating.
Just because the waiting rooms were segmented does not mean this was not one of the Enormous Train Stations of China
A Taxi driver in Baoding has an interesting little sideline selling crickets to visiting tourists/businessmen (not many tourists in Baoding!). It's 20 RMB for the cricket, but the cage is extra and costs 50 RMB. My sister tells me he's ripping everyone off - these crickets can be bought for 5 RMB in a pet store. This little monster was about 6 cm in size.
DAY 2 - FT - Financial Times - China Energy and Environment Summit
Professor Ma Xuelu is the former founding Director of the Baoding High-Tech Industrial Zone, also known as China Electricity Valley. an area in Northern China's Hebei Province, Designated by the Ministry of Science and Technology as a National Base for renewable energy industries. Mr Ma was also a member of the Municipal Committee for Baoding and was instrumental in making solar power a major energy source for the city. Professor Ma is currently Managing Director of the China Renewable Energy Society and Vice Chairman of the China Wind Energy Association.
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You simply close a section of a plaza and do nothing with it. I was standing looking out the window at the gym into this area. The objects on the bottom are umbrellas covered with dust. On the right is an appliance center. With the exception of the appliance center, this entire area is closed off and out of use.
P.S..., I still can't quite figure out the umbrella things.
The tilted poles are an effect the iPhone reading the image off of the image sensor slowly, row by row.
China's High Speed rail service is cheap and efficient and in the best traditions of Socialist Realist architecture, their new stations are properly designed "People's Palaces" - even if there is no toilet paper in the bogs!
And a giant Samsung sign. The Royal Meridien has a 66th floor bar from which I took the next pictures. The bar was very empty, granted on a Monday.
This is one of the few remaining back alleys in Baoding. These are being demolished and replaced with shiny, tall, new, concrete apartment complexes. This area has makeshift walls built around it, and I am thinking that soon, this will be demolished as well. The video I took here is me riding my bike through the area to capture it on video to help keep the memory alive.
Ancient Lotus Pond Garden was first built in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty (1277 A.D.). It used to be called Xiang Xue Garden (Fragrant Snow Garden). The main part of the garden is the lake that is covered with blossoming lotus plants during the summer. Some small and exquisite pavilions are built around the lake. Located in Baoding, Hebei province, the Ancient Lotus Pond Garden is one of the oldest classical gardens still in existence in China and ranks among China's top ten historical gardens.
Artist: Ginsberg, Allen
Dimensions: sheet 5 x 7 inches
Medium: black and white silver gelatin print with ink
Support: fibre based photographic paper
Credit Line: Gift of the Larry & Cookie Rossy Family Foundation, 2012
University of Toronto Art Centre
People do not dress like this anymore. It seems that all that is left of traditional China can only be found on walls like this one.
The building is 5 years old and an international symbol of the ascendence of modern China, but the sidewalk surrounding it has already buckled. Fit and finish and attention to detail are not China's strong suits. I think they just don't care. Can't be a good sign for 20 years from now, and makes you question the "infrastructure envy" present in certain elements of politics in this country.
noodles (well actually thinly sliced pan-fried bread), soybean sprouts, cabbage and spices, from the street vendor on the corner of Dongguan Dajie and Hongqi Dajie, Baoding. It was served in a bowl inside a plastic bag, as dish washing on a street corner is not so easy. Perhaps it is to reassure customers that it is served in a clean container, but I have had no trouble with street food in Baoding.