. There are forty-five million people in Guangx Province. Most of them are not engaged in the tourist industry. Many are peasants, pursuing the cultivation of rice, sugar and fruit but, despite its rural base, Guangxi has many towns and cities. It is still regarded as a backward province. In China, as everywhere, much of the pleasure comes from experiencing the usual rather than the phenomenal. Guangxi is a beautiful province with charming people. Nanning is the provincial city of Guangxi. It is a clean, modern city of spacious streets, which I have heard equally praised and reviled by travelers. We saw nothing of the old China there, but we met many of the friendly modern Chinese. The Chinese live in small apartments, so in warm weather their activities spill out into their city parks, and
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