Foundations, Bole

" Tale of two Cities"

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June 22nd 2013
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 ... read more

Asia » China » Xinjiang » Kashgar

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more