The Famed Pipe Machine

Trying to catch up in Beijing

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March 9th 2007
I wanted to finish a little more about Qingdao and mention that we actually did fit in some business. It was hard, but, somehow, we managed. Jim had asked to see a machine actually making pipe. The next morning, Mr. Geng and the interpreter showed up at 8:00 and we were off for a 3 hour trip north to a town named Wei Pei to see a machine. The expressways are all toll roads and seemed to have no ... read more

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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