March 17th-25th 2007

CHINA

My business travel in March took me to 4 cities in China; Hong Kong, Chang Ping (DongGuan), Dalian and Shanghai. This trip was especially significant since I was accompanying 5 Europeans; 2 of whom are Swedish and first time in China. Its always a pleasure acting as tour guide for first timers since they are not able to verify the facts and figures which I throw at them. :>

My usual stopover is in the city of ChangPing (a direct train from Hong Kong gets you here). Whats in the town of ChangPing? Apart from several wood working factories in the area; there are some good buddies here.....they are native to ChangPing (almost). They tell me they visit my travel blog regularly and so I wonder how long before they realize their mugshots are here. These guys claim that their factories are run by MBAs. (Managed by Alchoholics).......I tend to believe them.

From the southern province of Guang Dong, I flew to the beautiful city of Dalian with my UK business partner, Chris and his wife Tracey. Its always nice to be in Dalian where its quiet(er)and the streets wider after being in the busy province of GuangDong. Dalian is cold he winter with temperatures ranging from 3 to 9 degerees.

The highlight was being in shanghai…….because I found out where the copy market folks moved to. I shall reveal this in my next posting!!!