“Triangular shaped key blank. Here, you can make different key patterns for FOUR elements of the key. This particular blank is available on Alibaba. Not available in the USA, if not outright banned. (After all, how can the police, FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, and IRS be able to come in if you are not cooperative?)”
Full stop. Chinese propaganda article. None of this is true. China is the worst. Also, the article and photos are an ad for an actual building.
Yeah, but the girls in that article made ME want to move there. Especially the one dancing in the outdoor park.
Also, did you notice all the fancy cars in the parking garage?
I am sure that is one of the nicer apartment complexes.
I have traveled through MUCH of China in the past 18 years. There are, indeed, some beautiful parts... The large Western hotels are some of the finest on the planet.
But, LARGE parts of China are also 100% FAKE. I can’t tell you how many 20 building apartment complexes I have seen that are COMPLETELY empty. Just last week, I passed an impressive set of maybe 10-15 huge buildings... Glass walled, all alike, all maybe 10 floors high? Looked beautiful. When my car passed around to the other side of them, where the sun could shine through, I could see that they were ALL empty. Complete shells of a building. NOTHING but bare floor on the inside. And, no signs of construction anywhere.
That, is not an uncommon site in China.
The Airport in X’ian has 25 baggage carousels that are each 50-70 yards long. They’re in a building that must be half a mile in length, easily. When I was there, 2 were in use. I’m sure, on Golden Week, they use more... but, 25?? Give me a break.
They build things NOT because they are needed, but because the government needs to provide work for the masses.
In my opinion, China is a conflicted mass of communism, capitalism, cronyism and corruption. In some ways, Chinese people are MORE free than we are (They can ride a bike without a helmet). But, in other ways, they are deeply repressed... (No Google, limited ability to live where you want, etc.) The government there is riding a tiger.... I don’t know how they will be able to control it. The people have had a taste of freedom. I can’t see them giving it up.
Anhui is far more typical. Among other strange things, vendors butchered chickens in the street and left the offal behind. Not the heads, they are a delicacy, just the inedible parts of the offal. That wasn't all, if you get my drift. Every couple of days, an old man with a card, broom and shovel would come by to clean up and haul it away.
She shared a Stalinesque style apartment with a roomie who also taught English at the same local academy, middle school grades because the administrator decided my daughter was better with the elementary and high school kids.
Interestingly, they had pretty good internet service (as long as they stayed off forbidden websites), bought a local computer for just over $100 in local currency and were told not to spend a dime on software. The school, or one of the school contacts, installed just about anything they wanted, most likely pirated.
There were beggars everywhere. The local friends she made or those from the neighborhood with whom they'd made friends would shoo them away if they were around, but they soon learned it was less hassle just to take a cab to the grocery store and back so as not to deal with them.
Her roomie couldn't wait to go home after the semester assignment was over. My daughter accepted an invitation to move to Beijing to study Mandarin at the University, which she picked up quickly thanks to a good foundation.
She was invited to attend Olympic events every day during the Olympics. She confined herself to one or two during the weekends so as to concentrate on her studies.
It was quite an education for her as she got to see how both the regular people and the upper crust lived.