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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (3601)10/30/2004 10:46:10 PM
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Chinese in travel revolution

John Leicester
Associated Press
Oct. 31, 2004 12:00 AM

FONTAINEBLEAU, France - After the whirl of rush-hour traffic, stops for snapshots and a meal of rice, soup and fatty pork, Chen Guolin finally got to relax in the verdant gardens of Chateau de Fontainebleau, where Napoleon luxuriated between military campaigns.

She had been touched, she said, by the almost accentless "ni hao"- hello in Chinese - with which French ground staff welcomed her at Charles de Gaulle airport when her group arrived the previous evening. And she marveled at Fontainebleau's tranquillity.

"If this was China, there would be people everywhere," she said.

Above all, her first day ever outside China had taught her a lesson: Just seeing Paris, first stop on a 15-day swing through France and Spain, confirmed to her that her homeland is on the rise.
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