Pridal-aventure: Pridal - Aventure dag 118

Hong Kong to Xiamen dag 118

On our way, out of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, I took some pictures of the City. They are building high elevation houses all over the place to their 7,5 million inhabitants.

In the outer territories, all the factories, which created a lot of jobs to Hong Kong Citizens, have been moved to China. This will be a very big problem for the future of Hong Kong.

No jobs no need for all those houses, unless they start a whole new industry, which requires t lot of manual workers, not just office administrators.

Already a lot of those office buildings and private houses has ended at “Uncle Thomas” with nobody to pay the rent.

Everything is very fine in the construction phase where everybody can get a job and pay rent of their houses, but when the construction workers have gone and nobody fills the new houses with rent paying people, even the landlords will get into trouble.

Along our route to the pier in Xiamen (udtales Sjarmen) (Xiamen har ca, 3,5 millioner inhabitants) it was obvious that the building problems from Hong Kong has repeated itself in Xiamen. Lots of new too small flats - 40 square meters per flat - have been built. One level 4 apartments with shared bathroom.

Solution one big family share a whole level, but everything is dimensioned too small, so it is only half a solution.

Though we are in a communist system, where everybody has a right to free accommodation, education and healthcare, all this will only be possible, if at least half the population work effectively, and produce something, which can be traded in for those things you have to import.

Of course, the working people will request a higher standard of their free “things” than the none working people get. That is the big problem with that system. It does not work in the real world. It will fail like it did in the “Sovjetunion”.

Excursion Panoramic Xiamen from kl. 1315 to kl. 1700.

From pier to Bailuzhou Park with the goddess statue - the city symbol. Further on through the old city. Drive along the beautiful beaches.

Tågen havde bredt sig og udsigtspunkterne var overfyldt af turister, så det var tidsspille. Derefter var der planlagt en tur gennem deres km. lange ”Main shopping street”, men da det småregnede og tiden næsten var udløbet for turen, stod folk i kø for at komme med ”shuttle bussen” fra downtown Xiamen tilbage til CrySy.

Det var ellers en god guide, der talte bedre engelsk end mange af amerikanerne. Han manglede bare sansen for at disponere turisters behov i en by, hvor stort set ingen talte engelsk, og hvor alle vejskilte og navne var kinesiske hieroglyffer. At sende en gruppe på ca.30 igennem en overfyldt Shopping Street var gale Matias. Jeg og halvdelen af gruppen sagde også nej tak. At blive lost et så ligegyldigt sted, som et shopping center, når skibet var scheduleret til at sejle om 2 timer, er ikke særlig intelligent.

Konklusion, det var tidsspille at stoppe krydstogtet i Xiamen, der var for lidt at vise frem.

Xiamen er en af mange ”små” standard storbyer i Kina, hvor det kun gælder om at skaffe tag over hovedet til indvandrerne fra landet. Det skal dog nævnes, at byen kunne blive et center for pensionister, da den har et behageligt subtropisk klima sammenlignet med det øvrige Kina.