KFC in a temple, on a roundabout?
Lots of fine roards, motorways and interchanges.
On the motorways you have to pay a toll.
There are lots of strip malls beside local roads.
You have heard of OPEC, well in China they have SinOPEC.
Acrossing into Nanjing - notice the smog.
They are proud of their double decker bridge - trains below.
View from the bridge. Note small plot gardening along the embankment and a shipyard beyond.
Nice parks and medium rise apartment blocks from the 1950s.
The bridge was built during Mao's reign and used mainly Chinese design and labour.
Still lots of construction everywhere.
Their Grand Canal from Hangzhou to Biejing in the north. Over 500 kms.
The Grand Canal is well used by barges for commodities.
Water city of Wuzhen.
Welcome to Wuzhen.
Typical farming community. Neat rows, plastic greenhouses, no tractors and low rise condos for the farmers.
Rapeseed (e.g. Canola) in flower.
All done by hand. Labour is cheap.
Better view of their plastic greenhouses.
Motorway inspection point.
Note the second countdown in red. Used instead of an amber light. Great idea.
Nice landscaping - but lots of smog - even in the country.
Motorways landscaping included lots of shrubs that need trimming. Thousands of miles of them!
Motorbikes and cell phones.
Communication tower for cell phones, etc.
Nice industrial park - but smoggy.
Another industrial park.
Now coming into Shanghai. The smog is worse.
Sports stadium.
Every square metre is under cultivation.
Older farm houses - most have been replaced by condos.
A police station at a toll booth.
In a suburb of Shanghai they have room for a ferris wheel.
Lots of elevated roads.
Power distribution.
Power needed for lots of AC units - attached to outside of condo units - 30-40 storeys up.
Coming into Shanghai on one of their elevated roads. Office blocks do not have laundry on poles!
Multiple tier motorway intersection - in good condition.
Light show in a tunnel under the Huangpu river.
Lightshow on the side of the Citi Group building in Shanghai.
New double doors just being installed in Shanghai metro.
Their metro is clean, with very long cars. You can walk between cars.
Newly installed double doors on the Shanghai underground - for that horizontal elevator feeling.
Guy in the red vest is a pusher - he squeezes extra people in as the doors close!
Look towards the Pearl Tower. They have trolley buses as well.
Shanghai skyline with the smog digitally removed. Wish it was that easy in practice!
