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Today was a nice day for visiting China. We stated with breakfast at the hotel. This is pretty much like any other 5 star hotel breakfast with a bit of a flare for the Chinese flavor. (Like I would know what a 5 star hotel is supposed to be like.) With the recession, good hotels are available at great rates! Us poor college kids finally get a break!
We boarded a bus to travel to Shanghai Bio Chip (SBC). The company is collecting samples of tumors in the gestation track of Asian people. They store the 4-micron slices in a ‘bank’ and are investigating various solutions to tissue research, human genome effort, and advancing science. They received a 40 million grant from the government last year to help fund their efforts. There are only two such facilities in china, one in Beijing, and the one in Shanghai. Competition between the cities seems to be quite evident.
This is the site in a model. Pretty nice model.
They turned the water on for us. Maybe conserving electricity.
We rode the bus to a hotel for a box lunch. Now these are box lunches!
Then it was off for some personal investigation. Like this bike shop I stopped by to see what was up. How did I know it was a bike shop? By the white line around the shop!!! Duh!! Now if you look at this shop, other than the issue with rain, he has it all! Pumps, leak detecting tank, tool rack, and a mobile supply cabinet containing: locks, new tires, inner tubes, seats and no repair shop would be complete without....a BOOM BOX on the top! Really cool.
College kids need a place to shop. Here it is. For those of you that do not read Chinese the sign reads "Pedestrian Street".
And what do they shop for? Why books, of course! I'm not sure what the books are about, but those faces sure look familiar!
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