This is a short industrial message. The thing that has struck me the most, really taken my breath away, stunned me to awe, is the sheer size of growth, change, modernisation in the two cities I have stayed in. Urumqi, already a capital of the Xinjiang province, has what every other city in China has which is lots of growth, cranes dotting every horizon, multi-storey buildings where the max was three, all over the city. In Bole and Kashgar, they are building brand new cities, doubling the size of the old cities, but quadrupling the capacity with high rise apartments and this is not happening piecemeal, it’s happening all at once. It’s so big am running round with the camera trying to find some shots that will encapsulate the size of it all, but really am
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