Two things set the main theme of my maiden tour to Shenzhen, the youngest city in China.

One is a construction blueprint erected outside Baoan District Stadium marked with all sorts of building schemes and functional district plans for Baoan's future infrastructure constructions. All public facilities are virtually pictured on the now enormous clayed wastelands among construction sites. Later on however, I learned that the blueprint, designed by the British designer Atkins, is already abandoned by the District government and they decide that a dozen of changes s......

“Morning. Which place to go today? We haven’t been to that one beside the Machine Tools Factory for a long time. How about that? Alright, I'll meet you there”. It is 6:30 in the morning. Lao Wang, a middle-aged man is making a call to an old friend to discuss the breakfast café they are going to meet at.

He owns a small business in Wuhan, a city in central China dubbed as

The above graph is not a cardiogram, but shows a speed of Shanghai real estate price during the past one year and a half, which likely came to steady.

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When: Starts July 26th , ends July 31^st , daily

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At dinner the other night in a small restaurant I was most impressed by the young waitress who greeted to a foreigner in English. Her accent was almost word perfect, as if she had recited each phrase repeatedly and committed it to memory.

It was only when the foreigner started up a conversation with her that I realised she had learnt the phrases, but knew nothing else. So their conversation went something like this:
"Is the food delicious sir?"
"Yes it is delicious, thank you. Your English is very good. How long have you been studying English?"
"Would you like more tea sir?
"Er, yes I would thank you. What is your name?"
"You are welcome to come a......

I was reading a book by same author who wrote the famous sex and the city-- Greg Behrendt.

I was stunned by the facts that he was wri......