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Many are moving away from the farms to places like Guangzhou to pursue a different life. According to The Wall Street train ride, shoppers can cross the Chinese border over to Shenzhen, where they can get much better prices. Immediately next to the y train station, there is a huge mall with shopping tightly packed stores about the size of small bedrooms. You can get Nike, Oakley and Northface products for h hour-lon- g four-stor- one-tent- of what they cost in the United States. Haggling is a must here and that turns off some shoppers. Around town, a gourmet meal for three costs under $10. How about a shampoo, haircut and blow-drwith an upper-bod- y massage thrown in, all for $3? As another effort to tap Hong Kong's expertise, the Chinese government designated Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone and pumped in resources to develop the area into a liaison between Hong Kong and the mainland. When my father emigrated from China to Hong Kong as a young boy, he trekked across the farms that covered Shenzhen. In the span of a y, generation, skyscrapers, shopping malls and a network of bridges and WE communist country. Unabashed mentality dominates. Shops are filled with bewildering arrays of goods, both foreign and domestic. Prostitution is not hard to find. People wear the latest styles of fashion. And the wealthy coddle their cars. All the Mercedes, BMWs and a Each of my visits back to Guangdong is a snapshot of work in progress. The street map changes significantly. The attitudes chance to consume. Mention this ad or present Student ID & Receive $50 toward any new phone w activation! get into Shenzhen one way or another. Another hour on the train to the north is the city of Guangzhou. The first time I was here was 15 years ago, and I remember being amazed by the and French places are rare finds. Soup sense that the cosmopolitan Hong Kong residents find the mainland visitors a little crude and unsophisticated. But the Chinese tourists are like new relatives the locals have to learn to like, and the Chinese bring in needed tourist traffic to a depressed Although there are more options for entertainment in Hong Kong now, the street scene of Hong Kong is still what's most fascinating. Brightly lit shops and aromatic restaurants excite the senses of passers-by- . It seems like inch of the street is about a every communications noodles and quick rice dishes are popular for people on the go. Their version of western cafe serves ham and egg sandwiches, tea with milk I Want to Hoar It! . Wynn at 581-704- 1 wparrychronlcl.uth.du highways have replaced the small villages. Although it is in Guangdong, Shenzhen is much less Cantonese than other nearby cities. A tour guide told me of Shenzhen residents are rural immigrants from other parts of China eager to find opportunities in the city. Consequently, the pretwo-thir- ds ferred dialect here is Mandarin, and most people outside the commercial district don't understand Cantonese at all. The government tries to limit the amount of migration into the city, partly because many Chinese enter Hong Kong illegally through Shenzhen. Although all Chinese citizens now need a permit to enter Shenzhen, people here tell me it's not difficult to 18 million Chinese enter the workforce this way every year. A visit to a local restaurant shows just how abundant labor is here. At the door, several young ladies dressed in traditional Chinese skirts greet you. ratio of servers to Inside, a tables is not uncommon. At department stores, salespeople would each one-to-o- ne attend about a half dozen racks of clothes and hawked at every browsing shopper. Foreign visitors are sparse in Guangzhou, and it is challenging to get by speaking English alone. Also, there aren't many traditional tourist attractions, such as museums and historical landmarks. But the city offers more remnants of the past than in Hong Kong. Street markets that serve fresh meat and produce are still very common here. Merchants kill chickens on the spot, and feather and gut it while you watch. And many residents still read the government-sponsore- d newspaper pasted on sidewalk bulletin boards. Visiting developing countries like China is a big contrast to going to popular tourist destinations like Western Europe. If you return to France 10 years from now, you can probably still find the same you stayed at. The neighborhood is likely to be unchanged. And the same owner might still greet you at the door. Each of my visits back to Guangdong is a snapshot of work in progress. The street map changes significantly. The attitudes of the people evolves. And even the smell of the air is different. Eventually, there will be a time when people here will take a breather and look back. Until then, nothing gets in the way of progress. Sentimental types like me need to take photos and write journal entries to save their memories. aleechronicle.utah.edu |