Drove 2.5 hours to Tianjin to visit the zone and two companies. There really is a consistency of these companies and their presentations to us. There is a showroom, pictures of 'famous' people visiting the company. And sure enough, that's what we saw.
The first company was Schneider Electric - which we had not done research for but was an interesting tour through their manufacturing warehouse. Next was Lishen Battery (they make batteries). They make 30,000,000 batteries every month! They warned us that when a battery says not to 'drop or put in fire', they really are serious and know by personal experience haha.
Lunch was provided by the chairman of the industrial zone in Tianjin and was a wonderful spread of fruit, caviar, doubled eggs, sushi, smoked salmon, prawns, pork, chicken, beef, other dishes and 20 different desserts with an ice cream bar.
After lunch we visited Tiandy Digital Tech which is a security systems company. There was, again, a nice showroom with camera watching, identifying, and following different faces throughout the showroom. Kinda creepy thinking about 'big brother' watching our every move but hi-tech was pretty spiffy!
After the 2.5 hour drive back (3 with traffic), some went back to the pearl market to pick up suit and pearl orders and shop some more - another group ventured to the silk market which is basically the same but with an emphasis on silk (big surprise!). Dinner and relaxing on patios in gorgeous weather soon followed. The weather really has been absolutely fantastic the entire trip (except the rain in Xi'an) which is definitely something to be grateful for.
~Elizabeth
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| A street game of some sort |
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| some amazing noodles |
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