Word: guangzhou
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...Guangzhou was the first city to open for business after Deng launched his economic reforms in 1979, and its vibrant populace threw itself headlong into the pursuit of cold cash. Taking advice and investment from Hong Kong, Guangzhou hustled to become China's third biggest consumer market, second most important transport hub, third best attractor of foreign investment. Today Guangzhou's tycoons worry about competition from Hong Kong, and Beijing worries about the example Guangzhou sets for China...
...however, not only were people dying by the millions but the state was on the verge of collapse. By then President Liu decided the time had come to make a leap in another direction--and Deng collaborated with Liu's economic reforms. During a visit to Guangzhou, Deng declared, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." It was his way of arguing that any method could be tried as long as it meant the people could eat. The words would later be used against...
...Born in Guangzhou, China in 1917, Peiimmigrated to the U.S. in 1935 and became acitizen in 1954. He received a bachelor's inarchitecture from MIT in 1940 and a master's inarchitecture from the Harvard Graduate School ofDesign...
...bosses in Beijing. Hainan in the far south plans to build itself into another Hong Kong. Guangdong and Shandong hope to catch up with such Asian powerhouses as South Korea and Singapore by 2015. The special economic zone of Shenzhen is two hours' drive from the southern city of Guangzhou, where bustling construction sites and rows of town houses, factories and shopping centers line the road through the Pearl River delta. In Shanghai, China's New York City, shop windows are crammed with chic imports, electronic pagers and fancy cuts of meat...
...several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China's special economic zones and factories and stay with a Japanese history professor and his family in Kyoto, Japan...