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To: RealMuLan who wrote (3132)	5/1/2004 4:49:23 PM
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Jungle law dominating China roads might quit with new road safety law enacted www.chinaview.cn 2004-05-01 23:30:49 BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhuanet) -- "That is Survival of the Fittest", said Michaela Baur, a Sino-German project director who has worked in China for two years, when asked about her impression of the country's car drivers and the road situation. "The stronger, the bigger and the faster car, can all the time be the first," Baur said. She is in China for a Sino-German Reintegration of Unemployed Women project based in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. "People don't follow the regulations really and there is a lot of confusion on the streets." China's first law on road traffic safety, taking effect as of May 1, is expected to improve the current road situation. Baur is not alone in the awful experience. Her impression seems to be shared by lots of foreigners in China. "It (the road) is the wild west here," said Gilbert De Swert, director of research department with Belgium Trade Union who came to Beijing for an employment forum last Friday, citing Chinese drivers are very "powerful". "No rules!" he said. "Everybody must fight for himself. You have to drive with your elbows." news.xinhuanet.com