I’m in Taizhou now

April 15th, 2006 Filed under English entries, Travel, Work

@ 2006-04-15 17:39

I’m now in a net cafe in Taizhou now. To be eaxctly, I’m in street I don’t know at Shujiang, a district of Taizhou. I have taken many photos on the way from Wenzhou to Taizhou, but unfortunely, like most of the net cafe, I can’t extract the photos out of the DC. I am here along with a DC brought from the company, a Sony cyber-shot. Eazy to use.The local people told me that Taizhou consists of 5 districts including Huangyan(黄岩), Jiaojiang(椒江), Yuhuan(玉环), Wenling(温岭), and another one I forget the name. When I passed Huangyan by bus, I saw a big block of yellow rock was arranged at the top of a tower-liked bracket. That’s maybe tells why this place is called Huangyan. As for Jiaojiang, it’s because that there’s a river of the same name.

It’s very broad new booming city located at the east coastal area. Huge buildings, wide roads but little people. A taxi driver told me that many of the pesants here are quite lazy after their farmland has been brought by the government for indurstrial parks. Some young couples, even with kids, don’t have a thing to do for life, they just stay and play at home spending the compensation from the government. But latter another local correncted my first impression of the city. There are also many diligent people here who have succeed to be millionaires throught their hard works.

There are two interesting things here. One is that at many entrance of either shops or restaurants, there’s weight scale free to use. I guess that people here keep an eye on their weights, and maybe that’s why there’s few fat guys here. Another thing the city is differented from other cities I went is it has many pick-ups on the road. According to my primary analysis this is a result of two reasons. First, many people here own a business, a pick-up will bring much convenience when needed to deliver the goods. Second, there’s a pick-up maker in the city.

I’ll stay here in the city a little longer but will go back to Wenzhou tonight. And because I’m on business trip I may can’t updated regularly till next Tuesday when I back to office. I’ll post the photos here then.

Here I show the piz to you, taken in Wenzhou, Huyonghang Highway(沪涌温高速, may way fr WZ to Taizhou), and Taizhou.

Downtown Wenzhou, 5 horse street. There are many beggers, but I don’t think they are really beggers.