There weren't many people there and most didn't pay much attention to the speech. One guy was playing solitaire on this computer. About the same level of interest as would be generated by the State of the Union address in a US airport restaurant I imagine. It looked like there were 1000's of delegates in the meeting which is being held in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. I went to a anniversary party for a big Chinese shipping company there last year and it was very impressive.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
17th National Congress
Recently the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party began. On the first day I was in Qingdao, a city by the sea between Shanghai and Beijing for some meetings. I unfortunately had a long negotiation and ended up stuck with a 10pm flight back to Shanghai. We watched part of President Hu Jintao's opening remarks in an airport restaurant.
There weren't many people there and most didn't pay much attention to the speech. One guy was playing solitaire on this computer. About the same level of interest as would be generated by the State of the Union address in a US airport restaurant I imagine. It looked like there were 1000's of delegates in the meeting which is being held in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. I went to a anniversary party for a big Chinese shipping company there last year and it was very impressive.
There weren't many people there and most didn't pay much attention to the speech. One guy was playing solitaire on this computer. About the same level of interest as would be generated by the State of the Union address in a US airport restaurant I imagine. It looked like there were 1000's of delegates in the meeting which is being held in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. I went to a anniversary party for a big Chinese shipping company there last year and it was very impressive.
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