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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (5325)	8/10/2005 7:42:54 PM
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (5325)	8/31/2005 9:09:02 PM
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Watching the flood in New Orleans, reminds me of the huge flood from ChangJiang-JiuJiang levee (YangZi River) in JiuJiang City, JiangXi Province in China in 1998. Both breaks in levees of N. O. and JiuJiang were about two-block-long. But the water in N. O. was much slower, and if the US army had done a good job, they could have blocked the break in a matter of hours. Instead, the break is still left open days later as we speak. The water in JiuJiang was much much faster, the volume was much heavier, and stronger, while the PLA soldiers, risking their own lives (several soldiers dead as a result), rebuilt an temporary NEW levee merely 5 hours later! They had NO any modern equipment, NO helicopters (like the US army does). The PLA soldiers drove 8 barges (one was really big), filled with several thousands tons of stones and sand bags, and sunk them along the break. That stop the water largely, and gave them the time to rebuild a temp. levee, and saved the JiuJiang City from flooding. Since that time, all the buses in JiuJiang have a sign, PLA Soldiers free of charge. Salute to the PLA soldiers! BTW, both N. O. and JiuJiang have about 400k population. Here is a Chinese article about the event. novel.jschina.com.cn