Map of Gansu Province
Jinchuan Non-Ferrous Metal Corporation (JNMC)
Our last banquet on Sunday before coming back to Lanzhou
Scott and our bus driver for the week
Jeff and myself being interviewed by a local TV station
Drinks at a Banquet - coke, wine, baiju, tea
Akiko and Tatsuji on the bus at JNMC
We began the long journey home on Saturday, via Zhangye and Jinchang. In Zhangye we visited an Agricultural Garden and a Water Irrigation Exhibition Hall. Conserving water is a major focus of local government as Gansu is very arid. Jinchang is an industrial city and we visited the Jinchuan Non-Ferrous Metal Corportation (JNMC) this morning. Jinchuan Group Ltd is the largest producer of nickel, cobalt and platinum group metals in China. At our final banquet for lunch most of us couldn't even eat half of the dishes presented! We got back on the bus after lunch and headed for home. We have had an amazing week, and we all feel very fortunate to have had the chance to explore so much of Gansu Province. We learned a few lessons this week as well;
1. Always be kind to your bus driver as it is his or her job to keep you alive in the often crazy traffic. 2. All of us in the group could never make it in the army as the rations we had brought with us for the week we had eaten within a day of us leaving Lanzhou. 3. Gansu is a little-known treasure in the North-West of China that has abundant attractions and beautiful scenery well worth a visit.
1. Always be kind to your bus driver as it is his or her job to keep you alive in the often crazy traffic. 2. All of us in the group could never make it in the army as the rations we had brought with us for the week we had eaten within a day of us leaving Lanzhou. 3. Gansu is a little-known treasure in the North-West of China that has abundant attractions and beautiful scenery well worth a visit.
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