I was privileged to gain the left seat to the Chairman last night and just talking with him you can tell he carries considerable weight. Everywhere we went in the province when they heard we were traveling with Chairman Sun's staff and program we were immediately treated like Rock Stars. Whenever we passed a significant bridge, building, park etc. that wasn't 1000 years old we were told Chairman Sun did it. The way we understand it the Chairman was the major planning force behind the modernization of the province and moving society forward in this part of China. He spent a day traveling with us and like I previously wrote part of his staff has been with us the entire way.
Chinese trips and hosts are very interesting with lots of cultural standards. If you are reading this and planning a trip to China with hosts remember to bring plenty of giveaways and big gift for your host as you will receive one from them. We all received Shandong aviation aircraft models along with certificates and other items. We presented multiple gifts to Chairman Sun and all of our escorts and support staff for the trip. We had a planning meeting the night before and pooled our resources then while shopping during the day we finished up gifts. The interesting part was we had a Wei Wei and Tina negotiate on a few items that they thought were personal take home gifts that we presented to them surprise surprise LOL
Attached are a few photo's from the dinner. My camera battery died and my cellphone is full so I traded a few pics with UK Jonathan.
Joe the bus driver was also invited and performed with his saxophone as you can tell by the pics.
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