Dan Wang

There's these shimmering lights.

There's this really well-known subway station that goes through the bottom of an apartment building in one side and then out the other side.

And so that is a really wonderful imagery.

It's in the Southwest, which is where my family is from.

I like Southwesterners.

They have...

I think the best sense of humor in China, people there tend to just sit over tea and chat.

They have great food.

It's often very spicy and it is also really traumatic.

So what else could you want than great food, great people?

I think...

Maybe the places to visit are not necessarily in these big cities.

I think it would be to try to go to a few factories and anchor your trip around a few factories.

Now, these factories might be something like electric vehicle manufacturers in Hefei.

It might be something like, let's say,

battery manufacturers in Shenzhen.

But wherever you can go to find some sophisticated factories making advanced manufacturing products, just go there and drop by the cities along the way to see how consumers live.

And I'm aware of several teams of envoys that have been traveling to China in the recent past.

There's been a bunch of European cleantech investors who've just gone to China and California.

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