Photos: …..I'm in a huge reception room at the Yangzhou guesthouse, really a collection of conference rooms, reception halls & restaurants. There is a low but very wide, flower bedecked stage along one wall, with a catwalk that extends through almost the length of the room, between tall pillars of artificial flowers. There are roughly 60 tables seating 10 people each, ready for the feast. Enough staff running around to populate an Australian country town. The lights are dimmed & the curtains retract. On a screen about 15 metres wide by 6 metres high a high definition video, possibly a music video, starts. A billowing red.....flag?.....cloth?....no. Panning back it's a pretty girl in a rather fetching red, silk dress. She runs along the foreshore. A young guy with a bunch of flowers run
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